Which graphics card should I buy

Would need some purchase assistance.
Which of these cards gives me the most performance for the money?
I need it for Red Giant software Looks 1.2 and Premiere CS4 (soon CS5) and for rendering out my 720p 25fps and 1080p 25fps CineForm files.
I also use ProCoder 3, will it help me there too?
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 1792MB PhysX CUDA
Or
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 with Elemental Accelerator
Regards
Mikael

I just found this at Red Giant home page, I guess I was not wrong after all.
Rendering
In most cases, the Looks plug-in requires rendering to generate final color-corrected output. With host applications like Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro, you can use Looks as a real-time color correction effect with the dynamic playback capabilities. With applications such as Apple Motion and Adobe After Effects, rendering is required to generate any output with Looks applied. In general, the faster the graphics card, the faster the rendering of media. NVIDIA cards are generally faster than ATI cards of the same level for HD or HDV projects."
Regards
Mikael
PS I will go by the Nvidia path now for sure, but keep my other cards ATI cards for later:-)

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