"The release highlights for the 180.16 driver release
mention support for the following GPUs being added: Quadro FX
2700M, GeForce 9400M G, GeForce 9800GT, GeForce 8200M G, GeForce Go
7700, GeForce 9800M GTX, GeForce 9800M GT, GeForce 9800M GS,
GeForce 9500GT, GeForce 9700M GT, and GeForce 9650M GT. However,
support for some of these GPUs has actually been in the driver for
quite a while. For example, in early November we were using a
Sparkle GeForce 9500GT 1GB with the 177.80 Linux driver and this
graphics card has been available since July. Either the NVIDIA
Linux engineers had too much Eggnog to drink at their Christmas
party or it's really just to reflect newer versions of some select
GPU cores"