NVIDIA GeForce 3 Go: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce 3 Go sales 1 February 2002. This is notebook card based on 150 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers.

Power consumption is at 2 Watt.

General info

Some basic facts about GeForce 3 Go: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	1 February 2002 (22 years old)
Current price	$387	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Technical specs

GeForce 3 Go's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 3 Go's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Boost clock speed	250 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	27 Million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)	2 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce 3 Go's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size

medium sized

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 3 Go: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	32 / 64 / 128 Bit	of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Shared memory	-

API support

APIs supported by GeForce 3 Go, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

DDR

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 3 Go. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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