The nVidia has slightly faster memory, but the ATI has a higher core clock speed. In most of the real game based tests, the ATI comes out in front. DonÂ’t get me wrong though, they are both good cards.
yeh I would definately go ATI, what I like about the 9600 XT's is that they (apparently) overclock themself when you need performance in games and such, and underclock themself when overheating
I would think it is hard to choice because i have seen both cards on computers with same specs and the frames and image quality is so so close . But i would say ati just because it is faster and i haven't seen a game yet were nvidias fx card have shown all there power (cine fx etc.) If there is a game please say