NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Owners Might Be Getting $30 Back – Class Action Cases Settled

It appears that NVIDIA has finally reached a settlement for a group of 15 class action lawsuits that were filed after the GeForce GTX 970’s memory subsystem and its performance came into question back in January 2015. Owners of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 graphics card found that memory performance dropped when the card used over 3.5GB of its 4GB of GDDR5 memory. It also appeared that the card had only 56 ROPs available and not the advertised 64 ROPs. The laywers of the suits claimed that NVIDIA misled customers about the capabilities of the GeForce GTX 970 that was released in September 2014.One of the lawsuits said that when using more than 3.5GB of memory the remaining half gigabyte runs 80 percent slower than it’s supposed to. That can cause images to stutter on a high resolution screen and some games to perform poorly, the suit says. NVIDIA claimed that the original GeForce GTX 970 specifications had an error in them, but it looks like the preliminary ruling by the US courts has ruled in favor of the graphics card buyers and not NVIDIA.

The anticipated $30 payout 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, according to the proposed settlement. Instructions on how to file a claim for the NVIDIA class action settlement have not yet been made available.