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Depends upon what you mean by "better"... Is an apple 'better' than a pear? Is South Carolina 'better' than Georgia? I'd say that Virgil is generally held in greater esteem as a Classical poet than Catullus. Virgil's great work, the Æneid, is hard to surpass.

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