Toshiba Satellite E205-S1904 WiDi Laptop Review
Test Setup and SiSoft SANDRA Performance
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| Toshiba Satellit E205-S1904 Intel Core i5 430 (2.2GHz) 4GB DDR3 Intel HD Graphics On-Board Ethernet On-Board Audio 1x500GB Hard Drive 5400 RPM SATA Windows 7 Professional (64-bit) 13.3" LED LCD Display (native 1366x768) |
Clevo Style-Note (W870CU) Intel Core 2i7 920XM (2GHz) 4GB DDR3 GeForce GTX 280M On-Board Ethernet On-Board Audio 1x80GB SSD Intel X25-M SATA Windows Vista Premium (64-bit) 17" LED LCD Display (native 1920x1080) |
Asus UL80Vt Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300 (1.3GHz) 4GB DDR3 Intel GMA 4500MHD + 512MB NVIDIA G210M GPUs On-Board Ethernet On-Board Audio 1x320GB Hard Drive 5400 RPM SATA Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit) 14" LED LCD Display (native 1366x768) |
Asus UL30A-A1 Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300 (1.3GHz) 4GB DDR3 Intel GMA 4500MHD GPU On-Board Ethernet On-Board Audio 1x500GB Hard Drive 5400 RPM SATA Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 (32-bit) 13.3" LED LCD Display (native 1366x768) |
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We began our testing with SiSoftware's SANDRA 2010, the System ANalyzer, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant. We ran three of the built-in subsystem tests that partially comprise the SANDRA 2009 SP4 suite: Processor Arithmetic, Multimedia, and Memory Bandwidth.
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The SANDRA results tell us that the E205's Core i5-430M processor is a middling performer, as least as far as Intel's new Core i5 and Core i7 architectures go. Compared against older Intel CPU architectures or AMD's offerings, however, the Core i5-430M is a worthy competitor. For instance, the E205's Aggregate Arithmetic Performance score of 28GOPS (Giga Operations Per Second) is just barley behind that of a reference Core 2 Quad Q6600's score of 29.77GOPS. In our Core i5 article, the Core i5-540M scored 33.71GOPS. And with memory running at 1,066MHz with both the E205 and the Core i5-540M test laptop, both systems got very close to the same Aggregate Memory Performance score, with the E205's 9.18GB/s actually just edging out the Core i5-540M's 9.0GB/s.
