New nVidia 1.0-7167 Drivers - My Experience
 

You may have read that nVidia has released version 1.0-7167 of their drivers, an up-issue from the 1.0-6629 drivers. I went to their website, got the file, and followed the install instructions, to install onto my MDK 10.1 CE. Everything went perfectly - no issues and it came right up and ran nicely.

I did all this because I was told that the drivers were faster (not that 6629 was slow, but hey, more speed is good!). The only measure I have of speed is glxgears, and I have to report that 7167 was actually *slower* than 6629 - I was getting 3700 fps with 6629 - it dropped to 3400 with 7167!

So, unless someone has a better measure of speed, I would almost recommend NOT upgrading - you slow your interface down!

Just my experience.

As per the Windows world, some of the newer drivers do indeed return much improved performance, but only on video cards with 128 megs of vram or greater.

There has been a lot of discussion about this on (non - linux) sites such as laptopvideo2go.com