Nvidia mx 440: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 Specs

17 марта, 2023

GeForce4 MX 440 [in 1 benchmark]


NVIDIA
GeForce4 MX 440

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  • Interface AGP 4x

  • Core clock speed 275 MHz

  • Max video memory 64 MB

  • Memory type DDR

  • Memory clock speed 400 MHz

  • Maximum resolution

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce4 MX 440 sales 6 February 2002. This is a Celsius architecture desktop card based on 150 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 64 MB of DDR memory clocked at 0.4 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 6.4 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via AGP 4x interface.

We have no data on GeForce4 MX 440 benchmark results.

General info


Some basic facts about GeForce4 MX 440: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance rating not rated
Architecture Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name NV17 A3
Market segment Desktop
Release date 6 February 2002 (21 year old)
Current price $30 of 49999 (A100 SXM4)

Technical specs


GeForce4 MX 440’s general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce4 MX 440’s performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock speed 275 MHz of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors 29 million of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology 150 nm of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080 Ti)
Texture fill rate 1. 100 of 969.9 (h200 SXM5 96 GB)

Dimensions and compatibility


Information on GeForce4 MX 440’s compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it’s interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface AGP 4x
Width 1-slot
Supplementary power connectors None

Memory


Parameters of memory installed on GeForce4 MX 440: 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 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width 128 Bit of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed 400 MHz of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Memory bandwidth 6. 4 GB/s of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260)

Video outputs and ports


Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce4 MX 440. 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 DVI, 1x VGA

API support


APIs supported by GeForce4 MX 440, 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 MX 440. Overall performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

  • Passmark

Passmark

This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various 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.

Benchmark coverage: 25%


GeForce4 MX 440
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Recommended processors

These processors are most commonly used with GeForce4 MX 440 according to our statistics.


Athlon II
X4 640

3.1%


Core i5
10210U

3. 1%


Core i3
1115G4

3.1%


Pentium 4
630

2%


Core i3
1005G1

2%


Pentium
4415U

2%


Celeron
J4125

2%


Core i3
10100F

2%


Core 2
Duo E8400

2%


Pentium
G4400

2%

User rating


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Questions and comments


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NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX440 Roundup!



NVIDIA GeForce
4 MX 440 Round-up
Abit,
Chaintech, eVGA, Gainward, Leadtek,
 Visiontek and X-Micro Do Battle!

By —
Marco Chiappetta
April 25, 2002

In
early February ’02
NVIDIA
introduced their latest product line up at a large press
even in San Francisco.  Not content with releasing a
single GPU this time around, NVIDIA decided to unveil two
entire families of chipsets, the GeForce 4 Titaniums (Ti)
and the GeForce 4 MXs.   The GeForce 4 Titaniums,
coming in Ti 4200, Ti 400 and Ti 4600 flavors, are their
current flagship products, boasting Dual Vertex Shaders
and a host of other performance enhancing features. 
The GeForce 4 MX series is their new mainstream oriented
product line, whose primary focus is on value.  The
GeForce 4 MX series of GPUs are also available in three
variants, the MX 420, MX 440 and MX 460.  Ever since
their debut, the GeForce 4 Titaniums were universally
praised for bringing new features and extreme performance
to our desktops, but the GeForce 4 MX line was almost
shunned by some members of the media.

Perhaps this
disillusionment stemmed from the fact that, the GeForce 4
MX is not a DirectX 8.1 compliant part, and lacks any
hardware pixel or vertex shaders.  It was with these
«missing» features in mind, that the online media took
issue with NVIDIA’s decision to call the new MX line a «GeForce
4» at all.  Many journalists claimed that this naming
convention would confuse less savvy customers and that
because these cards are missing these key features, they
would have a limited future.

However, let’s
keep in mind that the GeForce 4 MX is not completely
without merit.  The NV17 core, which the entire
GeForce 4 MX line of cards is based upon, brings a lot to
the table considering it’s relatively low price point. 
Although NVIDIA has informed us the NV17 was a completely
new core design, it basically builds upon the GeForce 2 MX. 
NVIDIA incorporated a limited version of their Lightspeed
Memory Architecture, their new Accuview AA engine and
nView multi-monitor technology.  They’ve also got a
new Video Processing engine for improved DVD playback and
high quality HDTV capabilities.  For a much more
detailed look into these new features,

we recommend reading this article written when these
new products launched.

Whether you
agree with NVIDIA’s naming decisions or not, the fact
remains the GeForce 4 MX is a capable card for the money.  
The seven products from
Abit,

Chaintech,
eVGA,

Gainward,
Leadtek,

Visiontek and
X-Micro,
we’ll be looking at today are all based on the mid-range
GeForce 4 MX 440.   Armed with 64MB of DDR RAM and
double-digit price tags for most, these cards set out win
us over from the get go…


Specifications and Features of the GeForce 4 MX
440
GeForce 4?

FEATURE
OVERVIEW:

  • Integrated NVIDIA
    GeForce4 MX series high performance GPU. (270MHz.)
  • Supporting
    64MB/128MB high-speed 128bit DDR RAM/SDRAM memory.
    (200MHz DDR)
  • NVIDIA nVIEW TM
    Display Technology
  • Lightspeed Memory
    TM Architecture (LMA) II
  • Accuview TM
    Antialiasing
  • Video Processing
    Engine (VPE) enables the highest-quality,
    full-frame rate, full-screen HDTV and DVD without
    requiring a high-performance CPU.
  • Integrated
    hardware transform and lighting engine.
  • Integrated 32-bit
    color and 32-bit Z/Stencil Buffer.
  • Integrated Cube
    environment mapping, and true reflective bump
    mapping.
  • Multibuffering
    (double, triple, quadruple) for smooth animation
    and video playback.
  • AGP 2X/4X
    supporting and Execute Mode.
  • Integrated Dual
    350MHz DACs and Dual Channel TMDS Transmitters.
    Driving dual independent displays with crisp and
    clear image quality at 2048×1536 resolution at
    75MHz and enabling two independent Digital Flat
    Panels (DFP) displays at resolutions up to
    1280×1024.
  • Video-out support
    (NTSC/PAL) TV system. (Optional)
  • Fill Rate: 1.1
    Billion Texels/Sec.
  • Triangles per
    Second: 34 Million
  • Memory Bandwidth:
    6.4GB/Sec.
  • Maximum Memory:
    64MB

nView Display Technology:

The nView hardware
and software technology combination delivers maximum
flexibility for multi-display options, and provides
great end-user control of their desktop. nView
allows end-users to select any combination of
multiple displays, including digital flat panels,
analog CRTs, and TVs, and to modify the display
properties using an intuitive software interface.

  • Windows®
    Integration: Seamless integration within the
    familiar Windows environment
  • Setup Wizard:
    Enables quick and easy installation of nView
    multi-display
  • Transparency
    Effects: Quickly view hidden applications on
    cluttered desktops
  • Microsoft Internet
    Explorer® Extension: Enables more efficient web
    searches
  • Hot keys: Bind
    every nView action to a keyboard hot key
  • Advanced zoom
    features: Quickly enlarge portions of the screen
    to view information easier and to do precision
    editing
  • Desktop
    management: Create up to 32 different Windows
    desktop workspaces to control information flow
  • Window and
    application management: Gives users full control
    over repositioning dialog boxes and application
    windows

Accuview Antialiasing (AA):

The Accuview Antialiasing subsystem with advanced
multisampling hardware delivers full-scene
antialiased quality at high performance levels.

Lightspeed Memory Architecture
(LMA) II:

LMA II boosts effective memory bandwidth by up to
300%. New technologies―including Z-occlusion
culling, fast Z-clear, and auto
pre-charge―effectively multiply the memory bandwidth
to ensure fluid frame rates for the latest 3D and 2D
games and applications.

  • A crossbar-based
    memory controller: Ensures that every aspect of
    the memory system is balanced and that all memory
    requests by the graphics processor are handled
    properly. Under complex loads, LMA II?s memory
    crossbar architecture delivers 2-4 times the
    memory bandwidth of other standard architectures.
  • A Quad Cache
    memory caching subsystem: High-speed access
    buffers that store small amounts of data and
    operate at tremendously high bandwidth, ensuring
    that data is queued and ready to be written to the
    memory. These caches are individually optimized
    for the specific information they deal with,
    resulting in almost instantaneous retrieval of key
    data.
     
  • Lossless Z-buffer
    compression: Reduces Z-buffer traffic?one of the
    largest consumers of memory bandwidth in a
    graphics subsystem?by a factor of four, without
    any reduction in image quality or precision.
  • A visibility
    subsystem: Determines whether or a not a pixel
    will be visible in a scene. If it determines a
    pixel will not be visible, the pixel is not
    rendered, saving valuable frame buffer bandwidth.
  • Fast Z-clear
    technology: Minimizes the time it takes to clear
    the old data in the Z-buffer, boosting frame rates
    up to 10% without compromising image quality.
  • Auto pre-charge:
    Warns the memory device of areas of the memory
    likely to be used in the very near future,
    allowing the GPU to spend less time waiting for
    memory and more time rendering pixels.

API SUPPORT

  • DirectDraw
  • Direct3D
  • DirectVideo
  • DirectX 8.1
  • Open GL ICD for
    Windows 95/98/2000/XP/NT

OS
SUPPORT

  • Windows
    95/98/ME/2000/XP/NT
     


Installation, Drivers and Image Quality
Anyone can do
this. ..

Thankfully, we
did not run into any technical difficulties when
installing the cards or drivers, for any of the seven
products we’ll be looking at today.  We always test
on systems that have a clean installation of Windows,
which eliminates the possibility of left over drivers
interfering with any product we’re reviewing.

The GeForce 4
MX 440 uses NVIDIA’s unified Detonator XP drivers, that
we’ve covered in quite a few previous articles before, so
we won’t be delving into their quality or functionality
today.  If you’re interested in taking a refresher
course,

check out this link.  Dave spent a little time
covering them there.

CLICK ANY IMAGE FOR AN
ENLARGED VIEW…

Although the
GeForce 4 MX has gotten a significant amount of negative
press, we have to admit, gaming with any of these cards
was just fine.  Obviously, running benchmarks side by
side with a more powerful product, shows the GeForce 4
MX’s shortcomings, but it handled every game we threw at
it adequately.   Above you’ll see a few screen shot’s
of Lucas Art’s hit, Jedi Knight II.  We took all of
these screen shots at 1024×768 with 4X antialiasing
enabled.  As you can see, the colors are vibrant and
the AA quality is top notch.

2D Image
quality and DVD playback were also very good. 
NVIDIA’s 2D has been criticized in the past, but with
their latest products, their troubles seem to be over. 
On a Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2040U, at desktop resolutions
up to 1600x1200x32, text remained crisp and colors
remained smooth and uniform from edge to edge.  We
used PowerDVD 4 to playback a few action scenes from the
movie «Independence Day» and were pleased with the results
as well.  There was minimal tearing and no noticeable
dropped frames at all.

The
Cards… 


GeForce4 MX 440 video card [in 1 benchmark]

NVIDIA
GeForce4 MX 440

  • AGP interface 4x
  • Core frequency 275 MHz
  • Video memory size 64 MB
  • Memory type DDR
  • Memory frequency 400 MHz
  • Maximum resolution

Description

NVIDIA started GeForce4 MX 440 sales 6 February 2002. This is Celsius architecture desktop card based on 150 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. It has 64 MB of DDR memory at 0.4 GHz, and coupled with a 128-bit interface, this creates a throughput of 6.400 Gb / s.

In terms of compatibility, this is a single-slot card connected via the AGP 4x interface.

We don’t have test results for the GeForce4 MX 440.

General Information

Information about the type (desktop or laptop) and architecture of GeForce4 MX 440, as well as when sales started and cost at that time.

Place in the performance rating does not participate of 49999 (A100 SXM4)

Features

GeForce4 MX 440’s general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. They indirectly speak about GeForce4 MX 440’s performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Core clock 275 MHz out of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)

Information on GeForce4 MX 440 compatibility with other computer components. Useful for example when choosing the configuration of a future computer or to upgrade an existing one. For desktop video cards, these are the interface and connection bus (compatibility with the motherboard), the physical dimensions of the video card (compatibility with the motherboard and case), additional power connectors (compatibility with the power supply).

Interface
memory capacity 6.400 GB/s of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260)

Video

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce4 MX 440. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for laptop ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.

Video connectors
Vulkan N/A

Benchmark tests

These are the results of GeForce4 MX 440 rendering performance tests in non-gaming benchmarks. The overall score is set from 0 to 100, where 100 corresponds to the fastest video card at the moment.

  • Passmark
Passmark

This is a very common benchmark included in the Passmark PerformanceTest package. He gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation by running four separate tests for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the latter is done in 4K resolution if possible), and a few more tests using DirectCompute.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

GeForce4 MX 440
4

Recommended Processors

According to our statistics, these processors are most commonly used with the GeForce4 MX 440.


Athlon II
X4 640

3.1%


Core i5
10210U

3.1%


Core i3
1115G4

3.1%


Pentium 4
630

2%


Core i3
1005G1

2%


Pentium
4415U

2%


Celeron
J4125

2%


Core i3
10100F

2%


Core 2
Duo E8400

2%


Pentium
G4400

2%

User rating

Here you can see the rating of the video card by users, as well as put your own rating.

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