Upcoming Nvidia Shield Tablet X1 flexes its graphics muscle in leaked GFXBench result

A new Nvidia Shield Tablet powered by the Tegra X1 chipset has just reared its head in the GFXBench database. Although benchmark results can be altered, the timing and the context is just right for Nvidia's Tegra X1-powred slab to be entering the final stages of development

Last week, Nvidia announced the Nvidia Shield Tablet K1, a successor to the original Shield Tablet that maintains most of the hardware specs but drops the stylus and $100 off the price tag. At $200 for the base model, the Shield Tablet K1 offers good value for the money but it wasn't the tablet that Nvidia fans have been waiting for. That tablet, as it turns out, appears to have recently surfaced in a leaked benchmark result.

The GFXBench listing indicates that the Nvidia Shield Tablet X1 will borrow some of its specs from Nvidia's previous slabs, such as the 8-inch display with a resolution of 1920 by 1200 pixels and the 32GB of internal storage. Aside from the new Tegra X1 chip, the only update in terms of raw specs appears to be an extra GB of RAM for a grand total of 3GB.

On the software side, the Nvidia Shield Tablet X1 is listed as running Android 6.0 Marshmallow, but the details of Nvidia's custom implementation remain unknown at this point.

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