GeForce4 488 Go: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce4 488 Go sales 1 March 2002. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Celsius architecture and made with 150 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 64 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.28 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 8.8 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via AGP 8x interface.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce4 488 Go: 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 | NV18 A4 | |
Market segment | Laptop | |
Release date | 1 March 2002 (23 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce4 488 Go's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce4 488 Go's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Pipelines / CUDA cores | 2 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
Core clock speed | 300 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
Boost clock speed | 275 MHz | of 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell)) |
Number of transistors | 29 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
Manufacturing process technology | 150 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
Texture fill rate | 1.200 | of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
ROPs | 2 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
TMUs | 4 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce4 488 Go 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 8x |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce4 488 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 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
Memory clock speed | 275 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
Memory bandwidth | 8.8 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Shared memory | - |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce4 488 Go. 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 and SDK support
APIs supported by GeForce4 488 Go, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX | 8.0 | |
OpenGL | 1.3 | of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell) |
OpenCL | N/A | |
Vulkan | N/A |
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