Nvidia To Pay GTX 970 Owners $30 Due To Class Action Lawsuit

[australia]

Nvidia To Pay GTX 970 Owners $30 Due To Class Action Lawsuit | Attack of the Fanboy

Nvidia released a couple of top-of-the-line GPUs last year for gaming PCs, which were touted as being very powerful and came with very reasonable price tags. However, the GPUs in question (the GTX 970 and GTX 980) quickly were the targets of controversy due to some false advertising in their marketing, leading to some legal action.

The false advertising took place with the GTX 970, where the initially reported 4GB of VRAM ended up not being what the GPU had, technically. The card was actually split into 3.5GB and 0.5GB, and while they claimed this would not impact performance, some users claimed the opposite. There was also a controversy regarding the 970 having a smaller L2 cache, along with less render output processors.

All of this to say that Nividia ended up on the wrong end of a class action lawsuit for false advertising, which they have apparently settled. Despite not having to accept any liability, they will have to pay $30 to each person who purchased the GTX 970. The buyers will have to furnish valid proof of their purchase by December 21st, with more information coming soon.

However, the court still has to approve of the settlement on August 24th, but assuming everything goes according to plan, owners of the GTX 970 will find themselves $30 richer.

 

[ArakAtak]

gibs me my stuff

I have been duped and my fps's have been stoled

 

[australia]

You should use your newly reimbursed 30 dollars to support midair.

Midair | Buy Midair

 

[ArakAtak]

I would rather use it to snort cocaine from a hookers stinky ass crack.

$30 dolla bills

 

[burtrennalds]

That a boy

 

[Fool]

Cool I can buy a new fedora, or maybe even a trilby.

 

[WarBuddha]

All manufacturers or just 970's produced by NVIDIA?

 

[australia]

All manufacturers or just 970's produced by NVIDIA?

The card was actually split into 3.5GB and 0.5GB, and while they claimed this would not impact performance, some users claimed the opposite.

 

[australia]

All manufacturers or just 970's produced by NVIDIA?

where the initially reported 4GB of VRAM ended up not being what the GPU had, technically. The card was actually split into 3.5GB and 0.5GB, and while they claimed this would not impact performance, some users claimed the opposite.

 

[Danno]

I would rather use it to snort cocaine from a hookers stinky ass crack.

$30 dolla bills

THat's how I roll. I'm extreme. That stuff will make you a sexual tyrannosaurus. You're all a bunch of limp dick faggots around here.

 

[The Greatest]

claim site is up: In re Nvidia GTX 970 Graphics Chip Litigation

 

[ArakAtak]

US residents only

I bought a GTX970

where's my friggin green card I want mah reparations

 

[s0dak1ng]

claim site is up: In re Nvidia GTX 970 Graphics Chip Litigation

THANKS, FILED

 

[Excel]

Filed so hard.

 

[havax]

claimed ggs

 

[Peanut]

US residents only

I bought a GTX970

where's my friggin green card I want mah reparations

you should start legal action in your jurisdiction and cite the decision made in the US courts

gg dolla bill

 

[Vermouth]

I need to be the lawyer in a class-action lawsuit.

You make $30 for being tricked into a significant expenditure that didn't meet the advertised specs.

The lawyer makes $3,000,000 (or more) for filing a few docs and making nvidia settle, but never experiencing the exquisite pain of dropped framerate in an alleged top-of-the-line card.

I see one big winner and a bunch of people who got shafted here.

 

[Fool]

yea but the lawyer is the only person involved who read the EULA

 

[Edofnor]

if lawyers can read, then why is charlie kelly the best lawyer in pennsylvania?

 

[fondu]

Lol hi