Nvidia Shield Portable Games Console Review

Performance

Having the stunning Tegra 4 CPU/GPU at its heart, the Nvidia Shield was never going to disappoint in the performance tests and as you can see from the AnTuTu benchmark, it’s made a mockery of many of the best mobile devices on the market, scoring a very impressive 38118 points. If you want to compare that up for some perspective, AnTuTu is a free download in the market place, go try your device and see how it stacks up.

The AnTuTu summery goes even further, listing much of the performance as Excellent.

Next up we have the Ice Storm Unlimited benchmark from 3DMark, we would have tried the other two Ice Storm tests, but 3DMarks software said our device was too powerful for them, which speaks volumes as to how powerful the Tegra 4 really is.

In a single test it scored an impressive 16050, a little below the average for the Nvidia Shield.

I likely scored below the average as I didn’t “prep” the device for an optimum score by clearing out ram and other little tricks you can do, however it’s still on par with the equally powerful LG Nexus 5 and Vibe Z LTE. This is again a free benchmark and can be download from the Google Play Store, why not give it a go and see how your device compares.

These high scores set the pace for the Shield, which is by far one of the most powerful Android devices on the market today, I have played through many games of Sonic 4 Episode II, Dead Trigger, Fractal Combat, Ridge Racer Slipstream and countless other high-end android games and they all ran beautifully.