These specs place it in the slow-to-moderate speed tier — adequate for filtering, sensor conditioning, and level-shifting below 100 kHz, but not for fast ADC drivers or video buffers.
3 V to 26 V supply — single-rail flexibility across industrial and automotive rails
The supply span covers 3 V minimum to 26 V maximum, so this op-amp runs directly off a 5 V logic rail, a 12 V automotive battery, or a 24 V industrial supply without a separate regulator. Each of the two channels draws 500 µA supply current, keeping the total quiescent draw under 1 mA for the whole package — a fit for loop-powered transmitters and battery-backed sensor nodes.
Obsolete — plan your BOM around surplus or a replacement
The base product LM2904 family remains widely available in other package and temperature variants (e.g. LM2904DR, LM2904P) — check the pin-compatible SOIC-8 options from TI or second-source equivalents from STMicroelectronics (LM2904DT) and On Semiconductor (LM2904DMR2G).
40 mA output drive per channel — enough for modest loads
Each amplifier can source or sink 40 mA. That drives a typical 5 V relay coil through a transistor, biases an LED indicator, or charges the sample-and-hold cap on a successive-approximation ADC. For heavier loads — solenoids, motors, or long cables — buffer the output with a discrete transistor stage.