NVIDIA introduced the SHIELD tablet K1 last week at a cheaper price of $199. Now the SHIELD tablet X1 has surfaced in GFXBench benchmarks revealing a similar 8-inch Full HD display, but this will be powered by the latest NVIDIA Tegra X1 Octa-Core (4x ARM Cortex A57 + 4x ARM Cortex A53) 20nm processor with 256-core Maxwell GPU. The listing shows it wrongly as a quad-core SoC.
It runs on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) out of the box. No details about the cameras or the battery capacity yet. We will have to wait for more details.
NVIDIA SHIELD tablet X1 rumored specifications
- 8-inch (1920×1200 pixels) multi-touch IPS display
- Octa-Core NVIDIA Tegra X1 processor with 256 core Maxwell GPU
- 3GB RAM, 32GB of internal storage
- Android 6.0 (Marshmallow)
- Wi-Fi 802.11n 2×2 MIMO (Dual Band), Bluetooth, GPS / GLONASS
- 9-axis (G-sensor, compass, gyro) motion sensors
The NVIDIA SHIELD tablet X1 is expected to be announced at the CES 2016 in January.