Nvidia Shield TV

[HEXUS]

A vanguard of media streamers to come.

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[scaryjim]

Interesting to see a review of this so close to the news about Vulkan: the two seem practically made for each other. Vulkan for Android and an affordable but high performance Android gaming machine could be a killer combination...

[Nifl]

To me this seems like the kind of device that people buy, use once or twice and then never touch again.

[PorcupineTime]

I'm probably, somehow, the target audience for this. I've just bought a 980TI to go in a nice gaming rig, but don't want to be banished to the back room every time I play a game. It'd also be nice to use our big TV for gaming with friends, etc. Plus I was already tempted to buy a chromecast/media streamer for our Netflix and iPlayer habits.

This seems to do this better than anything other single solution on the market, or am I missing one?

[DemonHighwayman]

"Nvidia duly clocks the X1 in at 1GHz, giving the complete SoC a 1TFLOP-plus rating" surely that can't be right ? my shield tablet runs at 2.2ghz and it uses the older k1 chip.

[ChewieJ]

"Nvidia duly clocks the X1 in at 1GHz, giving the complete SoC a 1TFLOP-plus rating" surely that can't be right ? my shield tablet runs at 2.2ghz and it uses the older k1 chip.

I saw this and also thought it seemed a bit slow, considering the rated freq speed of most mobile phones nowadays.

Yea they are different beasts, but it still doesn't seem right.

[3dcandy]

I think the 1GHz is the speed of the gpu portion not the cores...

[lumireleon]

...only if it was Windows RT powered

[ET3D]

The best thing for low power gaming would be an Intel CPU with NVIDIA graphics cores. Not likely to happen, but I don't think anything else could come close.