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nVidia for maximum performance, AMD price/performance, ah no price comparisons (-_-)

AMD is better for multi-monitor setup. I own AMD card (HD6850) and it's pretty good for gaming unless you need PhysX. AMD cards can be overclocked more than nVidia (or that's what people say).

Nvidia GPUs are good beacuse they can run PhysX much since most of new nvida cards have PhysX chip on them, where you need to run PhysX with CPU if you use AMD GPU. Generally nVidia cards have better reputation in gaming community but there is talk about new nVidia cards getting limited and can't be overclocked as much as AMDs. One more advantage of Nvida is better support for 3D rendering and that's reason I regret buying AMD because I have to render everything with my CPU and that's slower.

There are many good videos explaining this and other differences. This is one of them: nVidia vs AMD

I have mixed experiences. My first Radeon card was in the Ati ages, a 9200SE, it wasn't a powerhouse, but it was reliable.
So when I got my second PC, I've bought a Radeon X1850 Pro. It burned out in a month. Ever since I'm using a GeForce 9600 GT, and I feel I wouldn't go back to AMD, unless nVidia really screws something up.

When I had AMD cards I had problems, now that I only use nVidia I have no problems. Once your get burned and cross over, the only thing that will send you back is if you get burned more on the other side.

I will always pay gladly even 50% more for nVidia. Because even if you play 99% less for AMD, a card/drivers/power that gives you problems is worth 0%.

I would say my 3 year old GeForce is still working fine with maybe only 1-2 driver updates just to let it run the latest games. So Nvidia>AMD in future-proofing.

i think as far as preformance goes, nvidia keeps ahead of the game. Ati is however, very cost effective (albeit i know you said no price comparisons). I lurk alot of tech forums and it seems that the general census is that nvidia drivers are slightly less hassle then ATis, but for whomever wants multi screen, the eyefinity software works wonders. At the end of the day, i bought a used 550 ti and love the thing. was a great upgrade from my 9800 gt hahaha but IMO cost/preformance ratio is everything.

AMD all the way price to performance is a lot greater games run better as well oh and a lot less heat