GeForce4 420 Go: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce4 420 Go sales 6 February 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. 32 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.2 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 3.2 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via AGP 4x interface.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce4 420 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 | NV17 A5 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 6 February 2002 (22 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce4 420 Go's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce4 420 Go's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 2 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 200 MHz | of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 190 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 29 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 150 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Texture fill rate | 0.8 | 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 GeForce4 420 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 4x |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce4 420 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 | 32 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 200 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 3.2 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Shared memory | - |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce4 420 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 compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce4 420 Go, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 8.0 | |
| OpenGL | 1.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce4 420 Go. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Send your test results of GeForce4 420 Go.
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