Gigabyte G-Max N203 Laptop Review Features and portability are this 1.6GHz Centrino-based laptop's primary strengths, but it can also hold its own in the office computing.  75% Rating:    Table of Contents Filed under: Notebooks Published:  Author:  External Mfg. Website: Gigabyte Mar 14 2005   M. Dowler   Home > Reviews > Notebooks > Gigabyte GMAX N203

SuperPI calculates the number PI to 1 Million digits in this raw number crunching benchmark. The program allows the user to change the number of digits of PI that can be calculated from 16 thousand to 32 million. Our benchmark is set to 1 Million digits and 19 iterations.

SuperPi
1 Million Digits:	Seconds	Ranking
Gigabyte G-MAX N512	46
Sony VAIO VGN-T140P	66
Gigabyte G-MAX N203	49

Again we see that the 1.6Ghz Pentium M in the G-Max N203 does not give up much in performance to 1.7GHz model. The ultra-low voltage Pentium M 1.1 of the VAIO is outclassed here.

PCMark 2002	Source: FutureMark

PCMark2002
CPU:	Points	Ranking
Gigabyte G-MAX N512	5773
Sony VAIO VGN-T140P	3714
Gigabyte G-MAX N203	5370
Memory:	Points	Ranking
Gigabyte G-MAX N512	10679
Sony VAIO VGN-T140P	6972
Gigabyte G-MAX N203	8885
HDD:	Points	Ranking
Gigabyte G-MAX N512	862
Sony VAIO VGN-T140P	377
Gigabyte G-MAX N203	428

The Gigabyte G-Max N203 posts good results here, though it loses out to the G-Max N512 in all three tests. We're not sure why the N512 notebook gained such a huge lead in the hard drive benchmark.

PCMark04	Source: FutureMark

The latest version of the popular PCMark series, PCMark04 is an application-based benchmark and a premium tool for measuring overall PC performance. It uses portions of real applications instead of including whole applications or using specifically created code. This allows PCMark04 to maintain a smaller installation size while still giving accurate results.

PCMark04:
Overall	Points	Ranking
Gigabyte G-MAX N512	3432
Sony VAIO VGN-T140P	2031
Gigabyte G-MAX N203	2739
CPU	Points	Ranking
Gigabyte G-MAX N512	3321
Sony VAIO VGN-T140P	2150
Gigabyte G-MAX N203	3127
Memory	Points	Ranking
Gigabyte G-MAX N512	2605
Sony VAIO VGN-T140P	2144
Gigabyte G-MAX N203	2548
Graphics	Points	Ranking
Gigabyte G-MAX N512	2419
Sony VAIO VGN-T140P	568
Gigabyte G-MAX N203	583
HDD	Points	Ranking
Gigabyte G-MAX N512	3545
Sony VAIO VGN-T140P	1874
Gigabyte G-MAX N203	2266

The G-Max N203 scores well in all of the sections of PCMark04 with the understandable exception of graphics performance. CPU and memory scores are excellent. Intel still has a long way to go with its integrated graphics.

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