NVIDIA GeForce2 MX + nForce 420: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce2 MX + nForce 420 sales 4 June 2001. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Celsius architecture and made with 180 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market.
Compatibility-wise, this is an integrated graphics card.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce2 MX + nForce 420: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Celsius (1999−2005) | |
| GPU code name | Crush11 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 4 June 2001 (23 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce2 MX + nForce 420's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce2 MX + nForce 420's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 175 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 20 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 180 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Texture fill rate | 0.7 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| ROPs | 2 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 4 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce2 MX + nForce 420 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).
| Interface | AGP 4x | |
| Width | IGP |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce2 MX + nForce 420: 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 | System Shared | |
| Maximum RAM amount | System Shared | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | System Shared | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | System Shared | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce2 MX + nForce 420. 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 Connectors | No outputs |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce2 MX + nForce 420, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 7.0 | |
| OpenGL | 1.2 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Similar GPUs
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