In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon R7 260X Club3D royalKing Edition are noticeably better than the Nvidia GeForce GTX 465.

The R7 260X has a 553 MHz higher core clock speed and 12 more Texture Mapping Units than the GeForce GTX 465. This results in the R7 260X providing 38.3 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 R7 260X has a 553 MHz higher core clock speed than the GeForce GTX 465, but the GeForce GTX 465 has 16 more Render Output Units than the R7 260X. As a result, the GeForce GTX 465 exhibits a 0.8 GPixel/s better Pixel Fill Rate than the R7 260X. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The R7 260X was released over three years more recently than the GeForce GTX 465, and so the R7 260X is likely to have far better driver support, meaning it will be much more optimized and ultimately superior to the GeForce GTX 465 when running the latest games.

The R7 260X has 1024 MB more video memory than the GeForce GTX 465, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. This is supported by the fact that the R7 260X also has superior memory performance overall.

The R7 260X has 2.9 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the GeForce GTX 465, which means that the memory performance of the R7 260X is marginally better than the GeForce GTX 465.

The Radeon R7 260X Club3D royalKing Edition has 896 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce GTX 465 has 352. However, the actual shader performance of the R7 260X is 883 and the actual shader performance of the GeForce GTX 465 is 427. The R7 260X having 456 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the R7 260X delivers a noticeably smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the GeForce GTX 465.

The R7 260X transistor size technology is 12 nm (nanometers) smaller than the GeForce GTX 465. This means that the R7 260X is expected to run slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the GeForce GTX 465.

The Radeon R7 260X Club3D royalKing Edition requires 105 Watts to run and the GeForce GTX 465 requires 200 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 500 Watts for the R7 260X and a PSU with at least 550 Watts for the GeForce GTX 465. The GeForce GTX 465 requires 95 Watts more than the R7 260X to run. The difference is significant enough that the GeForce GTX 465 may have an adverse affect on your yearly electricity bills in comparison to the R7 260X.