What is the difference in these two graphics cards?

what is the between geforce and the xfx cards? i saw some of the xfx were like 80 bucks. but the geforce were 200+.

What is the difference in these two graphics cards?
There are three major video card chip manufacturers:





NVIDIA


ATI (owned by AMD)


Intel





The Intel chips are the weakest and are only available as "on-board" solutions for laptop/notebook computers and lower end motherboards, so lets forget about them.





That leaves NVIDIA and ATI, and their video cards series.





NVIDIA has the GeForce series for gamers and the Quadro series for business applications (CAD/CAM, etc)





ATI has the Radeon series for gamers and the Fire series for business applications.





Each major chip manufacturer has multiple video card manufacturers that use their chips, such as XFX, Asus, BFG, Sapphire, eVGA, MSI, and many others.





So, to answer your question, you can't really compare XFX and NVIDIA. NVIDIA makes the chips that XFX uses to make the video cards.





So, how do we explain the different pricing on the video cards?





Both ATI and NVIDIA make several different "series" of chips to cover different markets (NVIDIA makes the FX, 6, 7, 8 series and ATI makes multiple different series as well).





Confused yet? Wondering what to buy?





There are a lot of different things to consider when purchasing a video card:





What kind of video card slot does your motherboard support (PCI, AGO or PCI Express)? If you don't know, tell us the make and model of your computer





What version of Microsoft DirectX support do you need (DX9 and DX10 are current, DX10 is Windows VISTA only)?





What games do you want to play?





What is the maximum resolution of your monitor?





What is your budget?





Let us know the answers to the above questions and we can make a recommendation for what might suit your needs.





Here's a good place to start looking for what is available:





http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/01/03/t...
Reply:The problem with Nvidia is that different companies manufacture their products, like XFX, EVGA, sapphire for example. XFX is just a company that produces Nividia cards.
Reply:geforce are just really good, and allow you to do more. I've never even heard of xfx. Either get a Radeon on a Geforce for the best experience.
Reply:xfx is gforce too same company, gforce is a faster video card and it also depends on the memory u have on the card

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