NVIDIA NV17

NV17

MX420

MX440

MX440-SE

MX440 A5

MX440-SE A5

MX460

NV17GLM A4

420 Go A5

440 Go A5

460 Go A5

Die Shot

NVIDIA's NV17 GPU uses the Celsius architecture and is made using a 150 nm production process at TSMC. With a die size of 65 mm² and a transistor count of 29 million it is a very small chip. NV17 supports DirectX 7.0. Modern GPU compute technologies are not available. It features 2 pixel shaders and 0 vertex shaders, 4 texture mapping units and 4 ROPs. Due to the lack of unified shaders you will not be able to run recent games at all (which require unified shader/DX10+ support).

Graphics Processor

Released: Feb 6th, 2002

GPU Name: NV17

Architecture: Celsius

Foundry: TSMC

Process Size: 150 nm

Transistors: 29 million

Density: 446.2K / mm²

Die Size: 65 mm²

Graphics Features

DirectX: 7.0

OpenGL: 1.5

OpenCL: N/A

Vulkan: N/A

Pixel Shader: 1.1

Vertex Shader: 1.1

Render Config

Pixel Shaders: 2

Vertex Shaders: 0

TMUs: 4

ROPs: 4

Max. TDP: 18 W

All Celsius GPUs

NVIDIA GPU Architecture History

2025 Blackwell 2.0
2024 Blackwell
2023 Hopper
2022-2024 Ada Lovelace
2020-2024 Ampere
2018-2022 Turing
2017-2020 Volta
2016-2021 Pascal
2014-2019 Maxwell 2.0
2014-2017 Maxwell
2013-2015 Kepler 2.0
2012-2018 Kepler
2010-2016 Fermi 2.0
2010-2013 VLIW Vec4
2010-2016 Fermi
2007-2013 Tesla 2.0
2006-2010 Tesla
2003-2013 Curie
2003-2005 Rankine
2001-2003 Kelvin
1999-2005 Celsius
1998-2000 Fahrenheit

Graphics cards using the NVIDIA NV17 GPU

Name	Chip	Memory	Shaders	TMUs	ROPs	GPU Clock	Memory Clock
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420	MX420	64 MB	2 / 0	4	2	250 MHz	166 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 PCI	MX420	64 MB	2 / 0	4	2	250 MHz	166 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440-SE	MX440-SE A5	64 MB	2 / 0	4	2	250 MHz	166 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440	MX440	64 MB	2 / 0	4	2	275 MHz	200 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 460	MX460	64 MB	2 / 0	4	2	300 MHz	225 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro4 550 XGL	NV17 GL	64 MB	2 / 0	4	4	270 MHz	200 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro4 500 XGL	NV17 GL	128 MB	2 / 0	4	4	250 MHz	166 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro4 200 NVS		64 MB	2 / 0	4	2	250 MHz	250 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro4 400 NVS PCI		64 MB	2 / 0	4	2	220 MHz	166 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro4 100 NVS PCI		64 MB	2 / 0	4	2	250 MHz	166 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro4 100 NVS		64 MB	2 / 0	4	2	250 MHz	166 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go	420 Go A5	32 MB	2 / 0	4	2	200 MHz	200 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go	440 Go A5	64 MB	2 / 0	4	2	220 MHz	220 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce4 460 Go	460 Go A5	64 MB	2 / 0	4	2	250 MHz	250 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce4 410 Go	410 Go	16 MB	2 / 0	4	2	200 MHz	200 MHz
NVIDIA Quadro4 500 Go GL	NV17GLM A4	64 MB	2 / 0	4	2	220 MHz	220 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440-SE	MX440-SE	64 MB	2 / 0	4	2	250 MHz	166 MHz
NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 Mac Edition	MX440 A5	64 MB	2 / 0	4	2	275 MHz	200 MHz

NV17 GPU Notes

Latest Drivers:
Windows NT 4:
ForceWare Release 77.56
ForceWare Release 77.72 Desktop

Windows 95 / 98 / ME:
ForceWare Release 81.98

Windows 2000 / XP / Server 2003 x64:
ForceWare Release 93.71 Desktop
ForceWare Release 91.36 / 93.81 Beta

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