Intel start its Core i7 processors couldn't contest the parallel processing performance of an Nvidia GPU, saying its competitor took the findings of the paper outside context in a blog post that trumpeted the results.

"Nvidia chooses up on a tiny piece of the paper and took it out of context," said Nick Knupffer, an Intel spokesperson, in an e-mail.

Though, the paper's results were clear. Titled "Debunking the 100x GPU vs. CPU myth: An evaluation of throughput computing on CPU and GPU," the paper was written by Intel engineers and required to question claims that GPUs break CPUs by a wide edge in parallel processing applications. Yet, the paper still start that one of Intel's fastest quad-core desktop processors, the 3.2GHz Core i7 960, was markedly slower than an older Nvidia graphics card, the GeForce GTX280, in benchmark tests mannered by the engineers.

Nvidia talk about the paper's answer in a blog post that questioned the scale of the GPU performance advantage explained in Intel's paper, only if links to 10 users who documented performance raises of hundred times or more using software that was optimized to run on GPUs.