(Rumour) Nvidia Shield 2 specs leak into the wild

Can you handle this much power in your hands? That’s what he said, as he whipped out some benchmarks for the NVidia Shield 2.

Surely to excite all 10 owners of NVidia’s PC streaming handheld, the system is about to get a pretty beefy update. At least that’s according to rumours that popped up on benchmarking site AnTuTu.

The new Shield will apparently début the Tegra K1, a powerful new 64-bit ARM chip said to run at 2.5ghz. Baked into it is a Kepler graphics core, the same architecture used for Nvidia’s current line of desktop cards. It’s also said to have 4GB of ram and run Android KitKat.

The screen will get a resolution bump to 1440×810. Which is an improvement, but still low compared to other mobile devices these day. There appears to be a VGA camera shoehorned into it as well.

We’re not sure how factually accurate this information is. Especially since their benchmarking chart has GeForce misspelled. So take it all with a grain of salt.

Nvidia has been quite about the Shield lately. Despite decent initial sales, you don’t really see too many of them out in the wild. Probably due to its initial high cost, and fairly limited appeal. Streaming only works with GeForce 600 series cards. Which immediately excludes about half of PC gamers. The clunky portable did get a fairly significant price cut recently. It now retails for $199, down from it’s initial launch cost of $299. So an update is plausible. More likely, NVidia is just trying to push out a big pile of unsold stock.

Source: AnTuTu
Feature Image by Aaron “EgoAnt”, via Flickr.