GeForce 2 MX 400

Written by - on 05 November 2009. Posted in GeForce 2 series

At the same time, performance indicators for chips designed for use in more expensive computers at nVidia have moved up. Shipments of the GeForce2 GTS stopped, and now Nvidia offered to use the faster GeForce2 Pro instead. It turned out that in the segment of mass-produced (cheap) chips GeForce2 MX became noticeably inferior to its competitors.

In order to stay on the cutting edge and not fall behind, nVidia decided to simply increase the operating frequencies of its GeForce2 MX, due to which new video cards based on it should once again become just as profitable and, therefore, popular. This is how the GeForce2 MX 400 came about.

Specifications GeForce 2 MX 400

Name	GeForce 2MX400
Core	NV11
Process technology (µm)	0.18
Transistors (million)	19
Core frequency	200
Memory frequency (DDR)	183 (366)
Bus and memory type	SDR-128 / DDR-64bit
Bandwidth (Gb/s)	2.9
Pixel pipelines	2
TMU per conveyor	2
textures per clock	4
textures per pass	2
Vertex conveyors	No
Pixel Shaders	0.5 (emulation)
Vertex Shaders	1.0 (emulation)
Fill Rate (Mpix/s)	400
Fill Rate (Mtex/s)	800
DirectX	7.0
Anti-Aliasing (Max)	SS-4x
Anisotropic Filtering (Max)	2x
Memory	64MB
Interface	AGP4x
RAMDAC	350 / 150 MHz

Although NVIDIA's early attempts to use Twin View technology to support dual monitors were not successful, their latest implementation with the release of the GeForce2 MX 400 has undergone significant improvements. nVidia Twin View was a really good solution. ELSA drivers are based on nVidia Detonator. They include all the same for 'twin view' mode as in the reference drivers, only with the ELSA logo.
The Twin View utility and all of its features could be accessed via the Quick Tweak icon. The screen adjustment utility was also located there. All other functions can be accessed through the Desktop Display Manager utility found in the window settings rollout. The GeForce 2 MX 400 was slightly faster than the GeForce 2 MX due to the higher clock speeds.