GeForce4 MX 420 PCI: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce4 MX 420 PCI sales 6 February 2002. 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 SDR memory clocked at 0.17 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 1.328 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCI interface.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce4 MX 420 PCI: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureCelsius (1999−2005)
GPU code nameNV17 A3
Market segmentDesktop
Release date6 February 2002 (23 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce4 MX 420 PCI's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce4 MX 420 PCI's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed250 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors29 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology150 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Texture fill rate1.000of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs2of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs4of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce4 MX 420 PCI 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).

InterfacePCI
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce4 MX 420 PCI: 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 amount64 MBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width64 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed166 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth1.328 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce4 MX 420 PCI. 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, 1x S-Video

API and SDK compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce4 MX 420 PCI, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX8.0
OpenGL1.3of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
OpenCLN/A
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce4 MX 420 PCI. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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