14 DAY TRIAL // Last week, news of NVIDIA working on a successor for its popular Tegra Note 7 surfaced online. A new tablet going by code-name Mocha has been spotted in the GFXBench website, revealing the slate could arrive with a powerful set of specifications.
Now the guys over at Fudzilla claim the upcoming Mocha tablet will actually turn out to be a Shield branded slate. Since NVIDIA managed to attract some attention with its Shield gaming console, it does make sense NVIDIA is looking to expand its line-up of Shield gaming systems.
According to earlier chatter, the new tablet will draw power from NVIDIA’s new powerful Tegra K1 processor and offers the option of streaming PC games over the web using NVIDIA’s GameSteam technology.
Currently, the Shield handheld gaming system is made up of a game controller with a 5-inch touchscreen display.
But in addition to letting you play Android titles, the new tablet will also let you play PC games including the popular Titanfall or Batman: Arkham Origins.
So far, we know the upcoming NVIDIA tablet will come with a large display compared to its predecessor, a 7.9-inch one and will offer an iPad-like resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels.
As mentioned above, the slate will run on the newest NVIDIA Tegra K1 ARM Cortex-A15 quad-core processor fitted with NVIDIA 192-core graphics architecture.
When it comes, Mocha will certainly be a sensible upgrade from NVIDIA’s first tablet, the Tegra Note 7. This small Android tablet supports a Tegra 4 CPU and DirectStylus technology.
The device sells for a really affordable $199 / €145, but it does not offer GameStream which needs support for 5 GHz Wi-Fi networks in order to function.
However, the new report reports the new Shiled tablet is capable of supporting the aforementioned Wi-Fi standard, therefore allowing the machine to stream games from a PC to a tablet without much lag being involved.
Surely, at this point we can’t vouch the Mocha tablet is the same as the Shield tablet and it is possible the chip-maker is working on two entirely separate tablets altogether.
It could also turn out the upcoming NVIDIA gaming tablet, whatever its name turns out to be, will arrive with a lower resolution, given the fact the Shield gaming console has a 720p screen and the Tegra Note 7 1280 x 800 pixels.
Surely, NVIDIA’s chips can support higher resolution, but keeping things low pixel-count wise, results in improved graphic performance and longer battery life.