GeForce2 MX: specs and benchmarks

VS

Aggregate performance score

GeForce2 MX provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.01% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce2 MX sales 28 June 2000. This is a Celsius architecture desktop card based on 180 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 32 MB of SDR memory clocked at 0.17 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 2.656 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via AGP 4x interface.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce2 MX: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking1528
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureCelsius (1999−2005)
GPU code nameNV11 A2
Market segmentDesktop
Release date28 June 2000 (24 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce2 MX's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce2 MX's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed175 MHzof 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors20 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology180 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Texture fill rate0.7of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
ROPs2of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs4of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce2 MX and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfaceAGP 4x
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce2 MX: 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 typeSDR
Maximum RAM amount32 MBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed166 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth2.656 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce2 MX. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x VGA

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce2 MX, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX7.0
OpenGL1.2of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce2 MX. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GeForce2 MX 0.01

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

GeForce2 MX 2

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce2 MX is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

GeForce2 MX's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce2 MX is Radeon 9250, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce2 MX:

Similar GPUs

Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

Recommended processors

These processors are most commonly used with GeForce2 MX according to our statistics.

All comparisons with GeForce2 MX

Community ratings

Here you can see the user rating of the graphics card, as well as rate it yourself.


3.6 17 votes

Rate GeForce2 MX on a scale of 1 to 5:

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

Questions & comments

Here you can ask a question about GeForce2 MX, agree or disagree with our judgements, or report an error or mismatch.