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Nvidia settles GeForce GTX 970 memory scandal in the USA
Nvidia gives American owners of GTX 970 may receive $ 30 back. That is the outcome of a settlement that the company has made in a class action case from disgruntled buyers after the scandal about the 3.5 / 4.0 amount of memory.
The parties settled at an amount of $ 30, according to Top Class Action who was behind the law-suit. The nukber is based on an average selling price of $ 350. It is an interim arrangement, the details of have not been disclosed. Nvidia promises to offer the amount to any American buyer who purchased the 970 and makes the claim. Nvidia also pays the legal fees for the lawsuit.
End-uers were dissatisfied that the GTX 970 did not use the amount of memory that Nvidia advertised and sold the product for. The company claimed in its introduction to a GTX 970 with 4GB GDDR5, but later had to admit that the memory was divided into a portion of 3,5GB and a slower partition of 512MB. These cards also had 56 instead of 64 rops, while the company initially advertised 56 initially. In addition, the amount of L2 cache used is 1792KB instead of 2048KB. Nvidia has always denied that there was any intent and dismissed this as communication error.
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#5313149 Posted on: 07/29/2016 06:25 AM
You can use both 3.5Gb + the last 512 MB for gaming ? Damn you are reay good as it is seems even Nvidia is not abe to do it.
Still people write that only 3,5 GB is useable which is not true... but i get the whole point.
You can use both 3.5Gb + the last 512 MB for gaming ? Damn you are reay good as it is seems even Nvidia is not abe to do it.
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#5313164 Posted on: 07/29/2016 08:09 AM
Something tells me I never gonna get those $30...
Depends on if you jumped on the bandwagon all these months ago
So, how much are they gonna pay for disabling async compute on Maxwell cards via driver but adverting as "next gen api ready"?
Isnt that the same false advertising?
Dude... no it isn't. 'Ready' never means the same as 'fully supporting', for instance, and 'next gen api' doesn't even hold any clear point that one could sue about.
Something tells me I never gonna get those $30...
Depends on if you jumped on the bandwagon all these months ago
So, how much are they gonna pay for disabling async compute on Maxwell cards via driver but adverting as "next gen api ready"?
Isnt that the same false advertising?
Dude... no it isn't. 'Ready' never means the same as 'fully supporting', for instance, and 'next gen api' doesn't even hold any clear point that one could sue about.
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#5313182 Posted on: 07/29/2016 09:06 AM
This topic was beaten to death. You can use the full 4GB, the 512MB was at a slower rate.
Looks like the lawyer made a quick buck and even though the payout isn't much for Nvidia, I doubt they'd make the same mistake again after the fiasco.
Settling is always better than going through court so it's nice to see they came to an agreement.
You can use both 3.5Gb + the last 512 MB for gaming ? Damn you are reay good as it is seems even Nvidia is not abe to do it.
This topic was beaten to death. You can use the full 4GB, the 512MB was at a slower rate.
Looks like the lawyer made a quick buck and even though the payout isn't much for Nvidia, I doubt they'd make the same mistake again after the fiasco.
Settling is always better than going through court so it's nice to see they came to an agreement.
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#5313199 Posted on: 07/29/2016 10:01 AM
This topic was beaten to death. You can use the full 4GB, the 512MB was at a slower rate.
Looks like the lawyer made a quick buck and even though the payout isn't much for Nvidia, I doubt they'd make the same mistake again after the fiasco.
Settling is always better than going through court so it's nice to see they came to an agreement.
So slow that unable to be used, and was disabled from the start by Nvidia ( better to have 3.5GB of normal GDDR5 than 3,2 + 712mb of slow ram, because if you wanted to enable the last cache and memory controller of 32b, you had obtain, not even a 3,5GB GDDR pool, but only 3.28GB of full speed GDDR )
Yes it have beaten to death... again and again.... and again and again we see the same bs about it. I personally dont care about it..
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-970/specifications
This topic was beaten to death. You can use the full 4GB, the 512MB was at a slower rate.
Looks like the lawyer made a quick buck and even though the payout isn't much for Nvidia, I doubt they'd make the same mistake again after the fiasco.
Settling is always better than going through court so it's nice to see they came to an agreement.
So slow that unable to be used, and was disabled from the start by Nvidia ( better to have 3.5GB of normal GDDR5 than 3,2 + 712mb of slow ram, because if you wanted to enable the last cache and memory controller of 32b, you had obtain, not even a 3,5GB GDDR pool, but only 3.28GB of full speed GDDR )
Yes it have beaten to death... again and again.... and again and again we see the same bs about it. I personally dont care about it..
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-970/specifications
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Let's put it this way, the advertising of the GTX970 as a '4GB' card since 4GB was seen as being a safe amount of VRAM to have ensured its success. Had it been advertised truthfully, perhaps it might not have sold as well. nVidia took a calculated risk, and imo, it paid off. Sure they'd had to pay for the legal fees + $30 for each of those involved in the suit (does that mean ALL GTX970 owners, or just those directly involved in the suit?). Regardless, nVidia'd laughed all the way to the bank, settling this Class action suit is mere pittance to them.