Nvidia settles GeForce GTX 970 memory scandal in the USA
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RzrTrek
I guess $30 is better than nothing.
The Laughing Ma
Oh please no one was buying these cards because they had 4Gb of Vram they bought them because the benchmarks for the cards showed it was a fantastic price / performance powerhouse, a factor that stayed the same throughout the whole 4Gb non sense, the only reason this got any traction is too many people with to much free time loving to complain about **** that doesn't matter.
Denial
I wouldn't say it doesn't matter. Nvidia should definitely be penalized for it, regardless to whether it was intentional or not.
That being said, I agree with you that it was mostly overblown. The vast majority of people look at the initial benchmarks and buy the cards, they don't scrutinize memory configurations or architecture faults. Had Nvidia explained the memory situation for the cards launch, I doubt anyone would have cared.
FookDat
You need to make a correction in the article
"These cards also had 56 instead of 64 rops, while the company initially advertised 56 initially"
should say 64 initially?
Undying
This is a 970 today. It has less rops, less l2 cache, less memory bandwidth, less vram then advertised.
https://davescomputertips.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/specgtx970.jpg
WhiteLightning
Moderator
yes you would need to emigrate to USA, rest of the world no chance
Solfaur
I can add that I had 2x970s for almost 2 years. Sure I had the SLI related issues over time, but I passed 3.5GB mark loads of times, and I never noticed anything, because of it (I'm not saying there wouldn't have been any problems, I simply didn't notice them). The only times where vram stuttering was present was when I had over 3.9GB usage or so, where the card was obviously running out of physical vram.
Anyway, I wouldn't mind getting 60$, but I won't for sure so yeah, I can only hope nvidia learned a lesson or two from this. If anything, the biggest damage is their image, less so the money which is negligible compared to their profit.
GiggleHz
neat i guess? i had 3 Gtx 970s...so i guess i get 90$ but as someone else said earlier probably wont see that money. I was part of a class action from one of my first jobs as a kid involving a large company...years ago, The money has never manifested. So, im not holding my breath.
robintson
Nvidia have lied about the "4" GB VRAM of GTX970 and they were caught, IMO they have learned the lesson and they would not dare to lie about the VRAM spec of any of their future GPU's.
The Phoenix
i doubt ill see that money lol,still lovin my 970 anyway
sykozis
I got the card based solely on it's performance. Memory configuration was never a consideration and had it been advertised accurately, I'd have still bought the card. If I was a gamer, I'd even buy a second for SLI without hesitation.
zer0_c0ol
Gimped settlement for a garbage gimped product.. I wish the users got more than 30 bucks.
Spets
Garbage product?
siriq
Time for Fermi DirectX 12 and Vulkan advertisement lawsuit ? 😀
Nvidia has such a great DirectX 12 and Vulkan drivers since the company has promised it to Fermi. Ohh , wait! They don't.
Redemption80
I bought a second 970 even after the 3.5/0.5 news leaked.
I would have preferred they were honest about it, but it never become a problem performance wise, even when downsampling from 4k.
Undying
Fermi nevercoming dx12 driver, abusing excessive tessellation in gameworks tittles, downgrading older gen cards, disabling async compute via driver. What a list.
I wonder why AMD has nothing of this kind. I guess 4GB means 4GB. 😀
siriq
You have forgotten Fastsync. It has been disabled on kepler and fermi . Since lot of us made noise about this, not only pascal but maxwell can have this very sophisticated feature.
Since Fermi has been advertised as DX 12 api supported hw. Nvidia has lost already. Specially, after GTX 970 issue.
RotatingFan
mmmm i wonder
People here think its ok to lie on the box and mislead the consumer.
This is a company selling a product to us and lying about it.
What is they was selling compressed air for divers or tires for cars or fuel consumption rating or maximum safe temperature of a cooker or the strength of a rope.
Its a company selling us a product and people seem to forget this simple fact.
If it was any of the above no one would be saying it was a fiasco would they.
RotatingFan
No way around the fact we have all been lied to even the people who dont own one.
Its still false advertising and saying its fine for them to do it sets a bad precedent for the future.
The reason behind the logic some people use to defend is the reason nvidia feel its ok for them to sell people the FE cards
and gift them 100$ on top of disgusting prices.
And yet people go out and buy them and then complain about the price, You are you own worst enemy and ask for it.
Redemption80
I don't think anyone here said it was ok.
I was annoyed when i first found out but got over it when i had no performance issues because of it, even picked up a second card cheap(ish) because of it.
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