The list of the different miners is that they have different capabilities for different hardware and/or different extensions for mining pools. You may want to check out this wiki page to see how they differ:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_softwareThanks for the link, but it's still not clear to me how to decipher this list. My hardware is a Nvidia_Quadro_2000 and I am running windows8 on a Intel Core i7-3770k.
Which miner would you suggest I pick ?