GeForce4 420 Go: specs and benchmarks

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce4 420 Go sales 1 March 2002. This is notebook card based on 150 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers.

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 performance ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
GPU code name	NV17M
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	1 March 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 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
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 4 nm (H100 PCIe)
Texture fill rate	0.8	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

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	64 MB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	32 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
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 GTX 1080 Mobile)
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.

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