The core of the GTS 260M is a GT215 based on the related desktop architecture (GTX 200 series). Essentially, the GTS 260M is a higher clocked GeForce GTS 250M, but with a much higher power consumption (TDP) of 38 Watt. To compensate, the certain models of the GTS 260M support faster GDDR5 VRAM. It features 96 shader cores as the 9800M GT, but the memory bus is only 128 bit wide.
The Nividia GeForce GTS 260M is a DirectX 10.1 graphics adapter for notebooks based on the 40nm GT215 core.
