Well, I hope this isn't referring to my vote, I provided a few more sound reasons to favor nvidia :P
Not saying its your opinion. I mean most people voting on this thread have no experience with both brands. Specially no recent experience.
I'm pretty sure most of them are using an outdated mythological nonsense. ;)
i love nvidia i have the 8600 very good because run shaders in toribash(and ati)and run strong games tips:avatar and gta4.
I see that early Nvidia propaganda is doing its job for a lot of people who don't realize that Nvidia had nothing special on their lineup for the past 3 years, and the prices were, like always, too high.
Now we have the outcome. ATI has finally surpassed Nvidia on discrete graphics market:
http://www.techpowerup.com/127565/AM...Shipments.html
This blows my mind, although it makes total sense once you think how popular the 5000's have been. (And how poor the gtx 400's were)
Nvidia used to be the top dog by far though, and since more people have older cards than the new ones, it'd make sense that impressions favor Nvidia.
Also, I don't know anyone personally who has had both parties in the same generation.
ATI has best price to performance ratio, but Nvidia has the highest tier gear.
Moral of the story, if your spending over $150, go Nvidia, under, go ATI