Go look at some reviews.
Heres 1 to get started wit -
bit-tech.net | Review - Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 1,536MB Review
The power consumption and heat is very high compared to there ATI counterparts so this round goes to Ati but the 28nm revisions and tesla might turn things around in the future.
That needs some modification :-
1. Get a Gigabyte 460W psu instead for 2.2k.
2. Only 2gb ram for 2.7k - 3k [upgrade later right now 4gb dosen't fell worth it but if u have any money left then better to go for more ram ].
3. You have about 5.5k left if we look at the 25k budget so buy a HD5670...
No proper benchmarks are out there so stop making your estimates about performance it is misleading. And who was that guy who said ATI will make better drivers? Ati's drivers are BS in front of Nvidia's drivers. Nvidia knows what its doing. There drivers aren't like ati which really give no...
This is War.
Consider this a wake up call for every one of you who bought CoD: MW2, every one of you who sigh and bend over every time some ratty publisher pushes the PC version into next year, every one of you who *****es and moans about shoddy PC ports, and then go buy the sequel.
Next time...
Spend the rest of the money by changing that to 6gb ram and get a nice Core i7 930 or 920 with a decent mobo ......... And maybe add a HD5870 if u have any money left .......
Yes :D
Seriously see how they boosted the performance on the GTX2xx with the drivers ........
And I don't think there driver making department ( or whatever they call it )has changed....
Ati can't increase there performance with drivers or even make them properly work ......... ON the other hand the drivers nvidia will later release for the GTX4xx will make them about 30% - 40% faster from there ati counterparts ............... U can already see how they manged to boost the...
Just get some cheap card like the Geforce 8200Gs for now ........... then sell it of later or keep it as a bckupcard if your Quadro needs an RMA or something .......
Leadtek QUADRO FX380 256MB DDR3 -7k looks like your best bet in that budget for a 3d designing card .........