Well I always found these kind of questions to be silly, hypothetically pitting Gandalf against the Witch King of Angmar seems a bit trivial and dumbs down Tolkein's writing. That being said, the whole "being killed by no man" prophecy aside, Gandalf was a Maiar, and he actually fought the Nazgûl on Weathertop for an entire night. Frodo saw this from afar and asked Aragorn what all that light was, but Aragorn didn't know it was actually Gandalf fighting the nine. Although he didn't kill them he fought them the entire night and escaped. They even felt his presence before in day but they felt his power and were to scared to face him with the sun out.
"I galloped to Weathertop like a gale, and I reached it before sundown on my second day from Bree — and they were there before me. They drew away from me, for they felt the coming of my anger and they dared not face it while the Sun was in the sky. But they closed round at night, and I was besieged on the hill-top, in the old ring of Amon Sûl. I was hard put to it indeed: such light and flame cannot have been seen on Weathertop since the war-beacons of old."
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