Nvidia Reportedly Working On Tegra X1 Powered Shield Tablet

According to a new report Nvidia is working on the successor of Shield Android Tablet. The main highlight of the tablet will be powered by next gen mobile chip Tegra X1 with Maxwell GPU which was unveiled at CES 2015.

The Tegra X1 is the first mobile processor capable of 1 teraflop floating point performance. It is claimed to deliver twice the performance of Tegra K1. The Tegra X1 mobile chip features 256-core Maxwell GPU, 8 CPU cores (4x ARM Cortex A57 + 4x ARM Cortex A53), 60 fps 4K video (H.265, H.264, VP9), 1.3 gigapixel of camera throughput and 20nm process.

Chipset aside, there is now much known about the Shield tablet except it will sport a 8-inch screen and will support LTE connectivity.

The new Shield Tablet is expected to be unveiled at the GPU Technology Conference to be held from 17-20 March in Silicon Valley.

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