In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 465 are significantly better than the AMD Radeon HD 6770 MSI MD 1GB.

The HD 6770 has a 193 MHz higher core clock speed but 4 fewer Texture Mapping Units than the GeForce GTX 465. The lower TMU count doesn't matter, though, as altogether the HD 6770 manages to provide 5.3 GTexel/s better texturing performance. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The HD 6770 has a 193 MHz higher core clock speed than the GeForce GTX 465, but the GeForce GTX 465 has 16 more Render Output Units than the HD 6770. As a result, the GeForce GTX 465 exhibits a 6.6 GPixel/s better Pixel Fill Rate than the HD 6770. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The HD 6770 was released less than a year after the GeForce GTX 465, and so they are likely to have similar driver support for optimizing performance when running the latest games.

The Radeon HD 6770 MSI MD 1GB and the GeForce GTX 465 have the same amount of video memory, but are likely to provide slightly different experiences when displaying game textures at high resolutions.

The GeForce GTX 465 has 32.3 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the HD 6770, which means that the memory performance of the GeForce GTX 465 is noticeably better than the HD 6770.

The Radeon HD 6770 MSI MD 1GB has 800 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce GTX 465 has 352. However, the actual shader performance of the HD 6770 is 320 and the actual shader performance of the GeForce GTX 465 is 427. The GeForce GTX 465 having 107 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the GeForce GTX 465 delivers a noticeably smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the HD 6770.

The GeForce GTX 465 requires 200 Watts to run but there is no entry for the HD 6770. We would recommend a PSU with at least 550 Watts for the GeForce GTX 465, but we do not have a recommended PSU wattage for the HD 6770.