I really do not know how the ATI or the FX's are going to compare to one another justbecause I have not had a ATI Video card yet so there in lies a problem. Plus Nvidia I would say is cheaper then what most of what ATI's stuff is. Plus I got the V-Card for only 130-140 dollars so it was cheap. also I really have not got to go on it really because of microsoft's gay XP actviation cr^p.