Friday, July 29th 2016
NVIDIA Settles Class-Action Lawsuit Over GTX 970 Memory
NVIDIA settled in a 2015 class-action lawsuit against it, for misrepresenting the amount of memory on GeForce GTX 970 graphics cards. The company has agreed to pay every buyer of the card USD $30 (per card), and also cover the legal fees of the class, amounting to $1.3 million. The company, however, did not specify how much money it has set aside for the payout, and whether it will compensate only those buyers who constitute the class (i.e. buyers in the U.S., since that's as far as the court's jurisdiction can reach), or the thousands of GTX 970 buyers worldwide.
"The settlement is fair and reasonable and falls within the range of possible approval," attorneys for the proposed Class said in the filing. "It is the product of extended arms-length negotiations between experienced attorneys familiar with the legal and factual issues of this case and all settlement class members are treated fairly under the terms of the settlement." The class alleged that NVIDIA falsified the amount of memory a GeForce GTX 970 GPU can really use, when an investigation found that it could only address 3.5 GB of it properly. NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang apologized to buyers about the issue and promised that it would never happen again.
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"The settlement is fair and reasonable and falls within the range of possible approval," attorneys for the proposed Class said in the filing. "It is the product of extended arms-length negotiations between experienced attorneys familiar with the legal and factual issues of this case and all settlement class members are treated fairly under the terms of the settlement." The class alleged that NVIDIA falsified the amount of memory a GeForce GTX 970 GPU can really use, when an investigation found that it could only address 3.5 GB of it properly. NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang apologized to buyers about the issue and promised that it would never happen again.
109 Comments on NVIDIA Settles Class-Action Lawsuit Over GTX 970 Memory
If that's legacy drivers" then I'm all for it, because it means NVIDIA did everything it could to give me all the performance that my hardware could produce.
and in order to support my point: do you believe that the majority of people actually need a 700$ smartphone? i think not, they buy it because "its shiny" and "everyone has it". those are the people i meant, not you or me or the vast majority of the people in this forum.
now, i dont believe that you agree with the way nvidia operated in this case, so if you dont agree with the way a company is operating the only way to make them change is by boycotting their products, unless you literally have no other choice. anything else is pointless imo.
in the end everyone can do whatever they want with their money, just like everyone is entitled to their opinion.
If you're looking for a continuous record of company disdain for its own customers - price fixing, bribery, disregard for upholding warranties, false claims regarding component fit-out, then two companies stand head and shoulders above the rest - Samsung and LG (whom AMD are currently suing incidentally). Regardless of the penalties, fines, and judgments that amass against these two gigantic chaebols I have yet to see any effort on a tech forum to boycott Samsung and LG products - particularly monitors, where both have an ongoing record of screwing their customer base.
But this is not real 64ROP because 1070 can't use full 64 pixels per cycle (can be set, but will not use 64 pixels) and is limited to 48 pixels per cycle so it limits its pixel filtrate to same level as 1060, even articles states this as it looses much performance because of that. So this IMHO is another NVIDIA lie, same as GTX970 VRAM lie - they should mention this limitation in official specifications !
PS: Pixel filtrate is very important for some apps like emulators.
@Nucleoprotein GTX 1070 performance levels are fantastic and only Radeon Lords give a damn about pixels per clock. Join the man above in Pokemon search.
It's the tech review sites that feed you that info. And sometimes they get it wrong. The simple approach is that you read reviews for the overall performance (ie GTX970 had glowing reviews across the board) and you buy a product (which does not provide the underlying technical details).
The memory claim, though really insignificant to its actual performance (listen to real owners, not AMD fanboys) WAS misleading. So the pay out is justified IMO.
Was there not also a class action suit filed against AMD for misrepresentation of how many cores in Bulldozer?
whatever you say.
Not complicated, what Nvidia did to Directx 11 The same is going to happen
With directx 12 by another company.
I think it 's good to respect each other's comments
EDIT: Made it bigger so rtwjunkie can see it.
I was pointing out that in that instance the tech sites didn't get it wrong. They were reporting the information that was given to them by Nvidia which turned out to be wrong. You can't blame the tech sites for giving the public bad information if they themselves are being handed bad information.
HARDOCP - NVIDIA Maxwell GPU GeForce GTX 980 Video Card Review (They post the reviewers guide which has the technical information that reviewers go by and is repeated to the public)
My initial post was to refute ROPS as a misleading selling point when the retail box does not mention it.
Only one of those is true. And I don't understand...