Testseek.com have collected 345 expert reviews of the NVIDIA Shield Tablet 8 inch and the average rating is 83%. Scroll down and see all reviews for NVIDIA Shield Tablet 8 inch.
July 2014
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Solid guts with great GPU
PC streaming has virtually no lag
Access to full Google Play
Fastest Android tablet on the market
Comfortable to hold for long periods
Gaming on a TV at home or away is incredible
Blazing fast. Tegra K1 is an extremely powerful processor
And SHIELD Tablet takes full advantage of it. No lag. No slowdown. No stutter. Just pure speed
All the time
Fantastic form factor. I may be a little biased here
But eight inches is my favorite
Stellar gaming specs for the price
Stylus option adds surprisingly solid sketch and handwriting options to vanilla Android
Bright
Sharp screen matched with solid speaker-subwoofer combo
Built-in Twitch streaming functionality is first of its kind for
Beefy hardware
Very good battery life
Plenty of potential for tinkerers and itinerant gamers
The Nvidia Shield Android TV streaming box offers best-in-class hardware
Connectivity and gaming capabilities. It works with 4K streaming services including Netflix and YouTube. The Android TV platform delivers good conversational voice search from the i
Excellent game controller
Extremely fast Tegra 4
Long battery life
PC Streaming of games
Offers a fully immersive gaming experience on the go
Has all of the buttons a gamer could want
Streams PC gamesif you have the right NVIDIA GPU
Excellent battery life
Sound quality
And display
Substantive-feeling hardware
Lovely screen
Plenty of potential
Great Performance
Lots of Fun
Pure Android
Good Build Quality
Stream Games From a PC
Comfortable gamepad with powerful Gamepad Mapper feature. Excellent build quality. Very fast for an Android device. Lots of connection and storage options. Local PC game streaming works well.
Blistering overall and graphical performance
Tight
Springy controls
Fairly customizable
Loud
Full audio
Sleek
Clean design
Beautiful display with vivid color
Excellent graphics and overall performance
Can stream Android and PC games
Controller offers tight
Accurate controls with low latency for Android and PC
Game streaming and Grid cloud gaming are great uniquely great fun and cutting edge. Very fast tablet
Clean Android OS
Nice full HD display
Front-facing stereo speakers
The Nvidia Shield Tablet packs a lot of graphics punch with a new Tegra K1 processor. It has expandable microSD card storage
Runs Android 5.0 Lollipop and offers full access to Google Play app store. Its add-on wireless game controller enables connected
Looking into the crystal ball, Nvidia saw a tablet that excelled at media consumption, productivity and mobile gaming, launching a quest that spawned the Tegra Note 7, a decent general-purpose tablet, and the Shield Portable, a potent handheld gaming devi...
Abstract: With this release, SHIELD Tablet gets a couple of enhancements: LTE and more storage. I'll be the first to admit that the 16GB of internal storage on the Wi-Fi model filled up quickly, especially with all the quality games that are hitting Android these d...
Controller sold separately, Streaming setup could be a pain for some
Nvidia's Shield Tablet LTE offers strong value for £299, even before the gaming side is considered. For that cash you get a light and portable tablet with a Full HD display, decent stereo speakers, 4G support, an accurate stylus and enough power to keep y...
Published: 2014-09-27, Author: Dave , review by: makeuseof.com
Abstract: It wasn't that long ago that NVIDIA released the Shield ( read our review of it ), a cool device with an attached screen that allowed you to play both Android and PC games. It had some drawbacks, namely being quite heavy and having a small display. To sol...
Published: 2014-09-18, Author: Will , review by: pcmag.com
Powerful. Plenty of features. Attractive design.
Interface performance needs improvement. Gamepad costs extra
Nvidia's gaming-oriented Shield Tablet is one of the first mobile devices to use the Tegra K1 CPU, and in sheer power it blows other tablets out of the water....
Tegra K1's outstanding performance, Preloaded and selectable sRGB color profile, GameStream and Twitch streaming
Casing bezel susceptible for scratches and cracks, Tablet's imperfect rigidness
Nvidia has managed to create an outstanding Android gaming tablet with the Shield tablet. The performance of the Tegra K1 is doubtlessly impressive, and it is perfectly fit for the future. We also very much liked the additional features, such as GameStrea...
Published: 2014-08-29, Author: Scott , review by: cnet.com
The Nvidia Shield Tablet packs a lot of graphics punch with a new Tegra K1 processor. It has expandable microSD card storage; runs Android 5.0 Lollipop and offers full access to Google Play app store. Its add-on wireless game controller enables connected
Its plastic chassis feels a little cheap, there aren't many Android games that support the K1 graphics potential, the game controller required to play most games is sold separately
Even if you don't take advantage of its gaming prowess, the Nvidia Shield Tablet is one of the most versatile -- and affordable -- high-performance 8-inch Android slates you can buy....
Tegra K1, front facing speakers, Great gaming implementation with NVIDIA Hub, Game Streaming, either with NVIDIA Grid or GameStream (if you can do it), Industrial design, Official accessories complete the experience, A great Android tablet outside of just
Battery life is below average, Screen isn't stellar, Stock-like Android doesn't come with too many non-gaming extras
9.0 The NVIDIA Shield Tablet is a wonderful gaming rig worthy of being considered alongside even console and PC gaming communities – but what makes us love it most is that it manages to simultaneously be a damn good Android tablet. This is as close as we ...
