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Nvidia SHIELD
North America| Global Score | |
| 54.3 | 62.5 |
| Basic Information | |
| Nvidia | Apple |
| Android | iPadOS 18.x |
| -- | 2025-03-04 |
| 8.80 x 5.00 x 0.36 inches | -- |
| 13.76 ounces | 16.97 ounces |
| -- | Blue, Pink, Silver and Yellow |
| $ 239.00 | -- |
| Display / Screen | |
| 8 inches | 10.9 inches |
| 1200 x 1920 pixels | -- |
| -- | IPS LCD |
| 283 pixels per inch | -- |
| -- | 500 cd/m2 brightness |
| Capacitive, Multi-touch | No touch screen |
| 7.8 | 3.7 |
| Performance | |
| NVIDIA Tegra K1 chipset | Apple A16 Bionic (4 nm) chipset |
| ARM Cortex-A15 (Quad-Core 2200 MHz) processor | processor |
| 2 GB RAM | 6 GB RAM |
| GK20A GPU | Apple GPU 4-core GPU |
| 8.91 | 6.3 |
| Storage | |
| 32 GB internal memory | 128 GB internal memory |
| microSD external memory slot | No SD card slot |
| 5.8 | 10.1 |
| Camera | |
| 5.00 MP + 5.00 MP | 12.00 MP + 12.00 MP |
| -- | f/1.80 aperture |
| 6.16 | 7.92 |
| Networks | |
| Wi-Fi | -- |
| LTE (4G), HSPA, EDGE and GPRS | 5G, 5G, LTE-A (4G), LTE (4G), HSPA+ (4G) and HSDPA |
| Micro SIM | -- |
| 5.7 | 7.6 |
| Removable Battery | Non-Removable Battery |
| 1.36 | 1.36 |
| Other Features | |
| Bluetooth 4.0 | Bluetooth 5.3 |
| GPS | GPS |
| -- | Fingerprint ID Scanner |
| Accelerometer, Compass, Gyroscope and Light Sensor | Accelerometer and Light Sensor |
Comparison review
The Apple iPad 11th Gen (A16, 2025) has an overall score of 62.5, which is better than the Nvidia SHIELD's global score of 54.3. The Apple iPad 11th Gen (A16, 2025) is a heavier but extremely thinner portable tablet than Nvidia SHIELD. Apple iPad 11th Gen (A16, 2025) comes with iPadOS 18.x OS, and Nvidia SHIELD comes with Android OS.
The Nvidia SHIELD has a lot better looking display than iPad 11th Gen (A16, 2025), although it has a really smaller display. Nvidia SHIELD has a much better performing processing unit than Apple iPad 11th Gen (A16, 2025), because although it has less RAM memory, it also counts with 4 more processing cores.
Apple iPad 11th Gen (A16, 2025) has a much greater storage capacity to install applications and games than Nvidia SHIELD, because although it has no slot for SD memory cards, it also counts with 128 GB internal memory. The Apple iPad 11th Gen (A16, 2025) has a greater camera than Nvidia SHIELD, because it has a lot higher resolution back facing camera.
The Apple iPad 11th Gen (A16, 2025)'s battery life is very similar to the Nvidia SHIELD one.
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