A new listing on the website of the US communications regulator, FCC, suggests that Nvidia may be working on a successor to its popular Nvidia Shield TV. Listed as the‘NVIDIA Corporation SHIELD Android TV Game Console P3430′the device will come with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity.
In terms of hardware, both the first-gen and second-gen models are powered by Nvidia’s Tegra X1 SoC with an embedded ARM CPU and Nvidia’s custom Maxwell GPU. The devices also rock 3GB of RAM support 4K output at 60 FPS over an HDMI 2.0 output, with support for HEVC-encoded video. While the base models come with just 16GB of built-in storage, there’s also a‘Pro’model on offer with a much more practical 500GB of storage.
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