Founder Brian Posted February 21, 2015 Founder Share Posted February 21, 2015 Well the inevitable has happened as a result of the GTX 970's 4 GB controversy. Someone has filed a class action lawsuit against NVIDIA and Gigabyte over deceptive marketing practices with respect to the GTX 970 alleging that they (NVIDIA) purposely marketed the card as having 4 GB Ram, 2048 KB L2 and 64 ROP when in fact it has 3.5 GB useable ram with 0.5 "spillover" and 1792 KB L2 + 56 ROPs in reality. It also states over 8100 people have filed a grievance with the FTC:This deception has already resulted in a petition of over 8,100 purchasers who have requested that the FTC take action against Nvidia.The lawsuit also attaches a bunch of images from NewEgg that purportedly show off advertising of 4 GB GDDR5 and other relevant technical details that they claim were misleading. Surprisingly, it doesn't allege that the card isn't a true 256 bit card in the suit, at least I couldn't find it. Here's the link to the lawsuit: Nvidia lawsuit over GTX 970 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator angerthosenear Posted February 21, 2015 Moderator Share Posted February 21, 2015 That class action lawsuit is only for Gigabyte it seems. Wonder if there will be others for the other manufacturers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder Brian Posted February 21, 2015 Author Founder Share Posted February 21, 2015 That class action lawsuit is only for Gigabyte it seems. Wonder if there will be others for the other manufacturers.No it specifically names NVIDIA as a defendant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator angerthosenear Posted February 21, 2015 Moderator Share Posted February 21, 2015 No it specifically names NVIDIA as a defendant.True, I wonder why Gigabyte was also included specifically then. And even a particular model of Gigabyte GPU within. Oh well. Going to be interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder Brian Posted February 21, 2015 Author Founder Share Posted February 21, 2015 True, I wonder why Gigabyte was also included specifically then. And even a particular model of Gigabyte GPU within. Oh well. Going to be interesting.Because that's the model the guy that started the suit started purchased and he was denied a refund by Newegg and Gigabyte. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SyphonAU Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 I've heard about the issue with the GTX 970's but never ran in to the issue myself.. I actually have GTX970 in SLI, but don't really come across the memory issue as I just play Diablo 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coda Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Man... I should have filed a class action lawsuit against Lenovo for marketing my Y500 as having WiDi and IRST when in reality it came with neither because of their awful feature-robbing BIOS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'USer Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Does anyone actually think this will go in the accusers favor? I mean its kinda like trying to do practically anything against smoking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snipergod87 Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 It will be interesting to see how this lawsuit falls but either way the lawyers will get 90%+ of the money. I have a friend with 2x 970's in SLI, he hasn't had any issues but none of the games he plays will load more than 3.5GB of textures into memory, however this will change over time and people who bought these thinking that they were actually 4GB of full bandwidth are right to be upset. When you actually max these cards 4GB of RAM out (or close to max) you will see stuttering when it accessed the slower memory.Hopefully DX12 will mitigate this by combining GPU resources instead of how current SLI/Crossfire works where the same textures needs to be loaded into each card, but this will only work for SLI setup's and will do nothing for people with single cards (the vast majority) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesnowed1 Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 It's sad that there is no competition on the market besides Nvidia and AMD. It'd be better for customers if a third player (other than Intel) would join the GPU market. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infini Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 It's sad that there is no competition on the market besides Nvidia and AMD. It'd be better for customers if a third player (other than Intel) would join the GPU market.Ya agree with you there. Seems to be only nvidia these days I've heard nothing out of AMD myself about them releasing anything. Would be nice to have a 3rd option... :S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faranos Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 Would be good but the start is heavy for a new company in the gpu market. Nvidia have the opportunety to build for DX12 in corporation with microsoft. AMD have their mantle so a new company needs a technique like amd and nvidia have to stand their ground. Think a new reseller will have a good evolve to get the prices down for a while Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saccente719 Posted May 23, 2015 Share Posted May 23, 2015 Ya agree with you there. Seems to be only nvidia these days I've heard nothing out of AMD myself about them releasing anything. Would be nice to have a 3rd option... :SI agree, it does only seem like 1. Almost forget that AMD is in existence solely because Nvidia dominates not only with performance and reliability but most major video game makers build their games around Nvidias architecture which is why you see games running better on Nvidia cards as well as the "niche" features you get. (Like the hair FX in the witcher 3 as well as in tomb raider) Its already hard for AMD to keep up (and it doesn't really even) i don't think there would even be a possibility of another company stepping into the race. Nvidia has almost monopolized the market at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grfgrf Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Stop complaning and enjoy the 3,5GB you have Live and let live It's still the best card out there for the money Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knight Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 It's not about complaining but truth and lies. You wouldn't be happy if You would buy Mustang with V8 and later... truth comes out and it's 4 cyl EcoBoost... or in best scenario V6. Sure... allow them to lie all the time. And then You will end like the last loser (sad but true). That was "cheap" marketing ploy, that won't be cheap for nVidia (I hope so). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exper1mental Posted April 9, 2016 Share Posted April 9, 2016 Exactly. When we spend 200-300 bucks on a GPU we want to know we are getting what we paid for. Depending on what resolution someone does gaming at that 0.5 GB difference might be enough to force someone to have to go buy a 980 instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diegomelch Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 I hope something like that happens more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viktoris Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 I had no clue companies still even tried shit like that in this age where basicly the majority is well informed and stuff.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rupek1995 Posted August 1, 2016 Share Posted August 1, 2016 Too bad that 30 bucks return is only for US citizens. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakoob26 Posted August 1, 2016 Share Posted August 1, 2016 Glad to see people brought this to court and ended up winning. Just because they make great products doesn't mean they can flat out lie to us about specifications. My friend has a GTX 970 and he will probably be glad about this news. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iForeverNoob Posted August 9, 2016 Share Posted August 9, 2016 Getting free money for a great card. I'll take it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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