Ati cards are usually colored red,along with the heatsinks and fans,And nvidia cards are usually black. Now nvidia is considered to be better for gaming than ati, but ati is better for rendering and autocad stuff. in my opinion nvidia cards are better than ati, might i recommend for gamers on a budget the 9800 GT and then the higher cards get more expensive but are faster.Also ati cards really get hot compared to nvidia and ati is also owned by AMD. hope this answers your question!
I would reccomend NVIDIA but they are very similar.
nvidia 8200 gpu score 4.7 ati 3100 is a 3.6
the hd3450
The NVidia is faster.
Far Cry 1 Nvidia Geforce 2 GTS, ATI Radeon 8500 or better Far Cry 2 Nvidia Geforce 6800, ATI X1650 or better
nvidia geforce gt525m
Yes!
the 9800gtx is better
Nvidia 9800GX2 Nvidia GTX 295 Nvidia GTX 285 ATi 4870X2 ATi 4890
They're both awful, but I think the 8200 is better.
ATI is the older company (1985) than Nvidia (1994). However there was a time, about 1999-2002, where Nvidia singlehandedly dominated the 3d graphic card market, ATI sort of "came back" from that, and is head-to-head with Nvidia today.
According to the Oblivion website you need to have an ATI X800 series, Nvidia GeForce 6800 series, or higher video card. Here is a list of supported video card chipsets. However you can still get the game to work if your card is not listed here. * ATI X1900 series * ATI X1800 series * ATI X1600 series * ATI X1300 series * ATI X850 series * ATI x800 series * ATI x700 series * ATI x600 series * ATI Radeon 9800 series * ATI Radeon 9700 series * ATI Radeon 9600 series * ATI Radeon 9500 series * NVIDIA GeForce 7800 series * NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series * NVIDIA GeForce 6600 series * NVIDIA GeForce 6200 series * NVIDIA GeForce FX series