In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 MSI Ventus XS OC 4GB are significantly better than the Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 SLI.

The GTX 1650 has a 810 MHz higher core clock speed but 56 fewer Texture Mapping Units than the GTX 460. The lower TMU count doesn't matter, though, as altogether the GTX 1650 manages to provide 7.6 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 1650 has a 810 MHz higher core clock speed but 32 fewer Render Output Units than the GTX 460. The lower ROP count doesn't matter, though, as altogether the GTX 1650 manages to provide 4.3 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 1650 was released over three years more recently than the GTX 460, and so the GTX 1650 is likely to have far better driver support, meaning it will be much more optimized and ultimately superior to the GTX 460 when running the latest games.

Both GPUs exhibit very powerful performance, so it probably isn't worth upgrading from one to the other, as both are capable of running even the most demanding games at the highest settings.

The GTX 1650 has 2048 MB more video memory than the GTX 460, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. However, the overall memory performance is about the same.

The GTX 460 has 102.3 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the GTX 1650, which means that the memory performance of the GTX 460 is massively better than the GTX 1650.

The GeForce GTX 1650 MSI Ventus XS OC 4GB has 896 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce GTX 460 SLI has 672. However, the actual shader performance of the GTX 1650 is 1559 and the actual shader performance of the GTX 460 is 907. The GTX 1650 having 652 better shader performance is not particularly notable, as altogether the GTX 460 performs better when taking into account other relevant data.

The GTX 1650 transistor size technology is 28 nm (nanometers) smaller than the GTX 460. This means that the GTX 1650 is expected to run slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the GTX 460.

The GeForce GTX 1650 MSI Ventus XS OC 4GB requires 75 Watts to run and the GeForce GTX 460 SLI requires 380 Watts. We would recommend a PSU with at least 300 Watts for the GTX 1650 and a PSU with at least 600 Watts for the GTX 460. The GTX 460 requires 305 Watts more than the GTX 1650 to run. The difference is significant enough that the GTX 460 may have an adverse affect on your yearly electricity bills in comparison to the GTX 1650.