Compared to the Shield Portable, the controller is not permanently connected to the screen, rather it can be purchased separately.

While the Shield tablet features an 8-inch 1920×1200 pixel display, it can output 4K resolution signal to a television via HDMI.

The Shield Tablet is powered by an Nvidia Tegra K1 SoC and has stereo front facing speakers.

Nvidia released Shield Tablet OTA 2.0 update with Android 5.0 Lollipop on November 18, 2014.

[7][8] The Shield Tablet OTA 2.1 update with Android 5.0.1 Lollipop & OpenGL 4.5 support was released on December 23, 2014.

[26] Android Central's Andrew Martonik likes the Shield Tablet, praising its speakers and the Twitch streaming ability.