GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q vs GeForce2 MX 400 PCI

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated208
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data26.97
ArchitectureCelsius (1999−2005)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameNV11 B2TU106
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date3 March 2001 (23 years ago)29 January 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data1920
Core clock speed200 MHz975 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1185 MHz
Number of transistors20 million10,800 million
Manufacturing process technology180 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data65 Watt
Texture fill rate0.8142.2
Floating-point processing powerno data4.55 TFLOPS
ROPs248
TMUs4120
Tensor Coresno data240
Ray Tracing Coresno data30

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIPCIe 3.0 x16
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount32 MB6 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed166 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth2.656 GB/s264.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x VGANo outputs
G-SYNC support-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Readyno data+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX7.012 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGL1.24.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 March 2001 29 January 2020
Maximum RAM amount 32 MB 6 GB
Chip lithography 180 nm 12 nm

RTX 2060 Max-Q has an age advantage of 18 years, a 19100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1400% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce2 MX 400 PCI and GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce2 MX 400 PCI is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 400 PCI
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