3DMark2001	Source: FutureMark

By combining DirectX8 support with completely new graphics, 3DMark 2001 SE continues to provide a good overall system benchmark. 3DMark2001 SE was created in co-operation with the major 3D accelerator and processor manufacturers to provide a reliable set of diagnostic tools. The suite demonstrates 3D gaming performance by using real-world gaming technology to test a system's true abilities. Tests include: DirectX8 Vertex Shaders, Pixel Shaders and Point Sprites, DOT3 and Environment Mapped Bump Mapping, support for Full Scene Anti-aliasing and Texture Compression and two game tests using Ipion real-time physics. Higher 3DMark scores denote better performance.

3DMark2001SE:
3DMark2001SE:	Points	Ranking
Gigabyte G-MAX N512	11779
Sony VAIO VGN-T140P	1873
Gigabyte G-MAX N203	2409

As the performance of the G-Max N203 and the Sony VAIO in this older gaming benchmark indicates, the Intel Extreme 2 graphics solution is not an ideal platform for gaming. Not at all. Either laptop should be able to play older games like Half-life, Rainbow Six, etc. tolerably though. The G-Max N512's Radeon mobility chipset is vastly superior...

3DMark03	Source: FutureMark

3DMark 2005 would not run on either the Gigabyte G-Max N203 or the Sony VAIO T-140, so we used their older DirectX 9 benchmark to test high-end gaming performance. Even then, neither machine would complete the DirectX 9 portion of this test.

3DMark2003:
3DMark03:	Points	Ranking
Gigabyte G-MAX N512	3033
Sony VAIO VGN-T140P	90
Gigabyte G-MAX N203	115

More of the same here. Owners of either the Gigabyte G-Max N203 or the Sony VAIO T140 should save themselves the pain of trying to play any 3D game made after 2002. This really underscores the point of choosing notebooks with a ATI Rage Mobility or nVidia Geforce-Go video chipset.

AquaMark3	Source: Massive Development