In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 Asus DirectCU II 1GB Edition are marginally better than the Nvidia GeForce GTX 465.

The GTX 460 has a 68 MHz higher core clock speed and 12 more Texture Mapping Units than the GeForce GTX 465. This results in the GTX 460 providing 11.1 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 GTX 460 has a 68 MHz higher core clock speed than the GeForce GTX 465 and the same number of Render Output Units. This results in the GTX 460 providing 2.2 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The GTX 460 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 GeForce GTX 460 Asus DirectCU II 1GB Edition 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 GTX 460 has 12.5 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the GeForce GTX 465, which means that the memory performance of the GTX 460 is slightly better than the GeForce GTX 465.

The GeForce GTX 460 Asus DirectCU II 1GB Edition has 336 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce GTX 465 has 352. However, the actual shader performance of the GTX 460 is 454 and the actual shader performance of the GeForce GTX 465 is 427. The GTX 460 having 27 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the GTX 460 delivers a slightly smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the GeForce GTX 465.

The GeForce GTX 460 Asus DirectCU II 1GB Edition requires 160 Watts to run and the GeForce GTX 465 requires 200 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 450 Watts for the GTX 460 and a PSU with at least 550 Watts for the GeForce GTX 465. The GeForce GTX 465 requires 40 Watts more than the GTX 460 to run. The difference is significant enough that the GeForce GTX 465 may have a slight adverse affect on your yearly electricity bills in comparison to the GTX 460.