Bij AnandTech is vandaag een review verschenen over de opvolger van de GeForce2 MX, de GeForce2 MX400. Veel bijzonders vergeleken met de normale MX is de MX400 niet: qua features is er niks veranderd, alleen de clocksnelheid is een beetje omhoog gegaan naar 200MHz. Zoals we langzamerhand allemaal weten ligt de bottleneck van de GeForce2 MX bij het geheugen, en absoluut niet de core. Dat dit waar is blijkt wel uit de benchmarks van AnandTech, er is praktisch geen verschil in performance tussen de oude en nieuwe GeForce2 MX. De conclusie van de reviewer is dan ook dat je gewoon de goedkoopste van de twee moet kopen :
If we had heard 10 months ago that NVIDIA would be upping the core clock speed of the GeForce2 MX without changing the memory bus at all, we could have predicted that essentially no performance would be gained. We showed in our Overclocking the GeForce2 MX guide that even a 50 MHz increase in the GeForce2 MX clock speed resulted in only performance gains in the tenths of a frame. As it turns out, the GeForce2 MX 400 lives up to this prediction. The conclusion is simple: the GeForce2 MX is far too memory bandwidth limited to benefit from any increase in core clock.
Our suggestion for GeForce2 MX 400 cards? Get them only after all GeForce2 MX cards are gone. Prices of the original GeForce2 MX based cards should be dropping as venders try to make room for GeForce2 MX 400 and GeForce2 MX 200 based cards. If you can find a good deal on an original GeForce2 MX, by all means go for it. After some time, the GeForce2 MX 400 should replace the GeForce2 MX for good. At that time, just think of the GeForce2 MX 400 as the original GeForce2 MX because judging by its performance, the two are the same.