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 Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2016 4:00 pm Post subject: NVIDIA Agrees To Proposed GeForce GTX 970 Class Action Sett |
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<p align="center"> </p><p><p><em>(Personal note: I generally prefer not to post news about class action settlements, as I find that these days they rarely establish truth or justice, and instead mostly benefit law firms while everyone tries to settle the issue without admitting any wrongdoing. That said, GTX 970 was one of NVIDIA’s most popular cards, so this is going to impact a lot of our readers in the US) </em></p>
<p>Word comes from Top Class Actions (via The Tech Report) that NVIDIA will soon be settling a series of proposed class action lawsuits brought against the company regarding the GeForce GTX 970. Under the preliminary settlement, United States residents who purchased GeForce GTX 970 cards would be able to claim a $30 settlement in return for dropping further litigation against the company. With the GTX 970 having launched at $329, this amounts to a de facto 9% rebate on the card.</p>
<p>The class action suits in question were brought against the company almost immediately after NVIDIA made the important (and more than a bit painful) disclosure that the initially published specifications for the GTX 970 were wrong. Specifically, that the card had an unusual memory crossbar organization where one ROP/L2 partition was disabled, giving the card only 56 ROPs instead of 64. Furthermore, this meant that the last 512MB of the standard 4GB of VRAM could not be accessed in a contiguous manner, impacting how it could be used. To that end, as the Top Class Actions article notes, the $30 settlement “was calculated to represent a portion of the cost of the storage and performance capabilities the consumers thought they were obtaining in the purchase of the product.”</p>
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<p>With that said, at this point the settlement itself has yet to be approved by the court, and signups are not yet available. Assuming it is approved, I’d expect that signups will be made available shortly thereafter.</p>
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Source: AnandTech
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