The Shield portable failed miserably in sales cause everyone was like "it's just a phone with a controller", which is true when you look at both the hardware specs and the software. But there's one thing everyone forgot to mention, one thing that set the shield apart from all other handheld gaming devices and phones, it has active cooling. Shield portable is the only handheld gaming console in existence to have a cooling fan. It's a cheap cooling fan that probably cost less than a dollar to put in the device, but the fact that it's there makes all the difference.
You can't play graphically intense games on any phone before it starts thermal throttling and the fps drops, some last 5 minutes some last 20, but they all throttle. I had an exynos galaxy s5 that would last no more than 1 minute with a game like Nova 3 before the fps went from 60 to 6. It has a supposedly powerful octacore CPU including one low-performance quad core at 1.3GHz and a high-performance quad core at 1.9Ghz. After a minute of gamelay all the high performance cores had been disabled as well as two of the low-performance cores, and the remaining two low-performance cores were running at 500MHz. The Mali GPU throttled from 530Mhz to 173.
Phone manufacfurers are all misleading. For example Qualcomm would advertize a super fast CPU that runs at 2.7 GHz when in reality it can only run at that speed for a few minutes. The heat builds up inside a plastic shell that is the phone and has nowhere to escape.
Apple seems to be the only one who's somewhat honest, they clock their CPU much lower than their competitors, like 1.4Ghz, their phones still throttle but less than others. So the real life performance you get with them is closer to the advertized speed, in contrast to Samsung and Qualcomm.
Nvidia shield is the only handheld device where instead of throttling and ruining your gaming experience it kicks the fan into action and maintains stable performance indefinitely. But it looks like nobody gave a shit.
You can't play graphically intense games on any phone before it starts thermal throttling and the fps drops, some last 5 minutes some last 20, but they all throttle. I had an exynos galaxy s5 that would last no more than 1 minute with a game like Nova 3 before the fps went from 60 to 6. It has a supposedly powerful octacore CPU including one low-performance quad core at 1.3GHz and a high-performance quad core at 1.9Ghz. After a minute of gamelay all the high performance cores had been disabled as well as two of the low-performance cores, and the remaining two low-performance cores were running at 500MHz. The Mali GPU throttled from 530Mhz to 173.
Phone manufacfurers are all misleading. For example Qualcomm would advertize a super fast CPU that runs at 2.7 GHz when in reality it can only run at that speed for a few minutes. The heat builds up inside a plastic shell that is the phone and has nowhere to escape.
Apple seems to be the only one who's somewhat honest, they clock their CPU much lower than their competitors, like 1.4Ghz, their phones still throttle but less than others. So the real life performance you get with them is closer to the advertized speed, in contrast to Samsung and Qualcomm.
Nvidia shield is the only handheld device where instead of throttling and ruining your gaming experience it kicks the fan into action and maintains stable performance indefinitely. But it looks like nobody gave a shit.
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