We experimentally study strange nonchaotic attractors (SNAs) and chaotic attractors by using a nonlinear integrated circuit driven by a quasiperiodic input signal. An SNA is a geometrically strange attractor for which typical orbits have nonpositive Lyapunov exponents. It is a difficult problem to distinguish between SNAs and chaotic attractors experimentally. If a system has an SNA as a unique attractor, the system produces an identical response to a repeated quasiperiodic signal, regardless of the initial conditions, after a certain transient time. Such reproducibility of response outputs is called consistency. On the other hand, if the attractor is chaotic, the consistency is low owing to the sensitive dependence on initial conditions. In this paper, we analyze the experimental data for distinguishing between SNAs and chaotic attractors on the basis of the consistency. Strange nonchaotic attractors (SNAs) often appear in dynamical systems driven by a quasiperiodic signal. An SNA is a geometrically strange attractor for which typical orbits have nonpositive Lyapunov exponents. In fact, typical orbits are insensitive to initial conditions under a common quasiperiodic signal. Owing to their characteristics reminiscent of both quasiperiodic order and chaos, SNAs have attracted the attention of researchers from both theoretical and experimental perspectives. Conventionally, the information dimension is often employed to distinguish between SNAs and chaotic attractors in experiments. However, using the information dimension for the experimental distinction between these types of attractors is difficult as the estimation of the information dimension is highly sensitive to noise, and requires rather long time series. Recently, Ngamga et al. 1 proposed a method for distinguishing between SNAs and chaotic attractors, which utilizes the consistency property of SNAs. Consistency here means that a nonlinear system shows the same response to the same input signal after some transient time, regardless of the initial conditions. In the method proposed by Ngamga et al., the determinism for a cross-recurrence plot of two response time series to the same input signal is used as a consistency measure. However, to our knowledge, there is no research paper on using their cross-recurrence method to experimentally distinguish between SNAs and chaotic attractors. In this study, we evaluated the consistency of a system by using the zero-delay normalized cross-correlation and Ngamga et al.'s cross-recurrence methods. By combining spectrum analysis and evaluation of consistency, we showed that SNAs and chaotic attractors can be distinguished more precisely as compared to conventional methods.