The Geforce 8 series and the best is the Nvida Geforce 8800 Ultra (768 MB of memory, 384-bit, 103.7 GB/second of bandwidth). If you think to buy one buy a Nvidia, are better, faster and cheapest than others (incluiding Ati Radeon).
I Don't know how old the answer before mine was but it is clearly out of date. The best Nvidia graphics card out right now Jan 2011 is the Geforce GTX 580. For specs look it up their website. Runs any visuals at 1980x 1280x, x16 antialiasing, highest setting, with over 90 frames per second. (smooth frames per second is 30 to 40)
The most advanced consumer video cards are the nVidia GeForce GTX295 and the ATi Radeon HD 5970. Most gaming computers will run two of these in SLi (nVidia) or CrossFire (ATi) format, with two on one computer, or even four linked together for dual-SLi.
The newest generations of graphics cards that are currently released by AMD, are the Radeon 7000 GPU series. To compete with that, Nvidia have released a range of cards, which fit under the HD7970 series.
nVidia GeForce cards are very much top of the line cards, as far as whether or not they are the best cards available depends on your requirements. nVidia is a great choice for Gaming, while ATI might be better for media work, such as video encoding.
According true gaming fans the best graphic cards for pictures for video games would have to be the NVIDIA series graphic cards. These cards are known for their high performance qualities when it comes to gaming and the picture qualities are some of the best in the business.
yes it,s very good for gaming
They Control the Graphics on Your Computer or Laptop, Say for Example, When Your Look at a Picture on Your Computer, the Nvidia Cards Processes All of the Graphical Data to Appear on Your Screen. With the Video Cards, It Is the Same Except a Lot Faster in Order to Show the Video.
VisionTek currently is partnered with ATI technologies, which designs video graphics cards for residential and business customers. VisionTek previously partnered with Nvidia, however Nvidia has since dropped them as a partner.
If you do a lot of gaming consider getting an nVidia GeForce 9600 video card.
For Nvidia Cards is Scalable Link Interface(SLI)For ATI its CrossFireX.
Certain NVIDIA video cards have been known to lock up in World of Warcraft and other video intensive situations. Related links below has the link to Blizzard where it lists the supported cards.
any pci or pci-e video card. such as ATI Radeon video cards (not agp ones) or NVidia GeForce video cards (again, excluding the agp ones)
nVidia and ATi both support valve games.