GeForce4 MX 420 PCI: specs and benchmarks
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 ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Celsius (1999−2005) | |
| GPU code name | NV17 A3 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 6 February 2002 (22 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 speed | 250 MHz | of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU) |
| 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 | 1.000 | 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 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).
| Interface | PCI | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
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 type | SDR | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 64 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 166 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 1.328 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
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 Connectors | 1x VGA, 1x S-Video |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce4 MX 420 PCI, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 8.0 | |
| OpenGL | 1.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
