Phoronix posted a review on the new NVIDIA 1.0-8178 Linux Drivers

A mere seventeen days after the launch of NVIDIA's 1.0-8174 display drivers that finally delivered Scalable Link Interface support to Linux, the green guys have delivered yet another driver for the penguin users on the heels of the holidays. Coincidently, the driver release comes on the same day as the Xorg X11R6.9 and X11R7.0 launch after a decade of no major releases. As the 1.0-8178 version implies, there is not much in the way of significant advances but there is enough to call for a new performance article, which we will be sharing with you today.

NVIDIA 1.0-8178 Linux Drivers Review