Intel researchers have published the consequences of a performance contrast among their newest quad-core Core i7 processor and a two-year-old Nvidia graphics card, and establish that the Intel processor can't equal the graphics chip's parallel processing presentation.

On standard, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 launched in June 2008 was 2.5 times quicker than the Intel 3.2GHz Core i7 960 processor, and above 14 times quicker below sure situation, the Intel researchers reported in the paper, known as "Debunking 100x GPU vs. CPU legend: An assessment of through put computing on CPU and GPU."

In a bid to dishonor maintains that GPUs break Intel's processors by a thing of 100, researchers contrast the performance of the quad-core Core i7 processor with the Nvidia GPU running a set of 14 throughput computing cores. The contrast was intended to test the parallel processing ability of the chips.

As its name proposes, parallel processing engage undertake multiple tasks concurrently as opposed to serial processing, which necessitate handling tasks in chronological order.