Not anymore. It was that way a while ago, but ever since the 8800 line NVidia has been equal or at times better. Now they are about equal I'd imagine, though I haven't seen an in depth comparison recently.
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Reply to EXT64
Since I bought my 8800GTS 512, the quality of the image is as good, or even better than any ATI card I ever owned. I was pleasantly surprised, as I too was a little skeptical of buying another Nvidia card from what I had seen in the past.
Don't base your choice on what you might have heard about image quality, it's simply not true any longer.
Message edited by jitpublisher on 06-06-2009 at 02:09:49 PM