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Nvidia SHIELD
North America| Global Score | |
| 54.3 | 71.3 |
| Basic Information | |
| Nvidia | Apple |
| Android | iPadOS 15.x |
| -- | 0000-00-00 |
| 8.80 x 5.00 x 0.36 inches | 11.05 x 8.46 x 0.24 inches |
| 13.76 ounces | 21.80 ounces |
| -- | Aluminum |
| $ 239.00 | -- |
| Display / Screen | |
| 8 inches | 13 inches |
| 1200 x 1920 pixels | 2732 x 2048 pixels |
| 283 pixels per inch | 263 pixels per inch |
| Capacitive, Multi-touch | No touch screen |
| 7.8 | 6.8 |
| Performance | |
| NVIDIA Tegra K1 chipset | Apple M2 chipset |
| ARM Cortex-A15 (Quad-Core 2200 MHz) processor | processor |
| 2 GB RAM | 8 GB RAM |
| GK20A GPU | 10-core GPU 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 | Wi-Fi |
| LTE (4G), HSPA, EDGE and GPRS | 5G, 5G, LTE-A (4G), LTE (4G), HSPA+ (4G) and HSDPA |
| Micro SIM | -- |
| 5.7 | 10 |
| 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, Barometer, Gyroscope and Light Sensor |
Comparison review
The iPad Air 13-inch (M2, 2024) is a lot better than Nvidia SHIELD, getting a 71.3 score against 54.3. IPad Air 13-inch (M2, 2024) comes with iPadOS 15.x operating system, and Nvidia SHIELD counts with Android operating system. IPad Air 13-inch (M2, 2024)'s design is notably thinner but much heavier than Nvidia SHIELD.
Nvidia SHIELD counts with a very superior processing unit than iPad Air 13-inch (M2, 2024), although it has an inferior number of cores and 6 GB lesser RAM. Nvidia SHIELD features a much better screen than iPad Air 13-inch (M2, 2024), because although it has a lot smaller screen and a much lower resolution of 1920 x 1200px, it also counts with a quite higher pixels density.
IPad Air 13-inch (M2, 2024) takes greater photographs and videos than Nvidia SHIELD, because it has a lot better 12 mega pixels resolution back-facing camera. The Apple iPad Air 13-inch (M2, 2024) features a very superior memory capacity for games and applications than Nvidia SHIELD, because although it has no slot for an external memory card, it also counts with 128 GB internal storage.
The Nvidia SHIELD and the iPad Air 13-inch (M2, 2024) feature extremely similar batteries duration.
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