Such comparison takes a few years of someone's efforts. You can get a quick overview at http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/index.html AND that is the quick version!
The 9200 and Nvidia 5200 are value plays which will run many programs well except the latest like Doom 3 and such.
Best of luck,
Bob
Hi,
I know little about comparing video cards, so when I went to Circuit City, I saw what looked like the same cards or similar with different prices ofcourse. For example, I saw a VisionTek Xtasy 9200 SE vid card for 79.99 and an ATI Radeon 9200 for 99.99. Since I don't know how to compare, just by looking at the SE on the other one I would imagine that's a newer model compared to the ATI one, but they both use ATI hardware. So why would the VisionTek card be less money than the ATI one? I looked at both boxes and couldn't find anything different, or maybe I just missed it. I looked at similar cards by eVGA that use nVidia hardware and they cost less than the nVidia cards themselves. Can anyone give a quick explanation as to why this is and how to compare? Thanks!

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