GeForce2 PRO: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce2 PRO sales 5 December 2000 at a recommended price of $329 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a Celsius architecture and made with 150 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 64 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.4 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 6.4 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via AGP 4x interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 183 mm.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce2 PRO: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Celsius (1999−2005) | |
| GPU code name | NV15 A5 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 5 December 2000 (23 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $329 | |
| Current price | $245 (0.7x MSRP) | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Technical specs
GeForce2 PRO's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce2 PRO's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 200 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 25 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 150 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Texture fill rate | 1.600 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce2 PRO 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 | |
| Length | 183 mm | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce2 PRO: 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 | 128 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 400 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 6.4 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce2 PRO. 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 | 1x VGA |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce2 PRO, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 7.0 | |
| OpenGL | 1.2 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce2 PRO according to our statistics.
