Nvidia will pay geforce gtx 970 buyers for 3.5 + 0.5 gb

The arrival of the GeForce GTX 970 was not without controversy, the Nvidia card quickly became one of the most successful on the market thanks to an excellent price-performance ratio. The problems came later when it was discovered that the card actually only has 3.5 GB of high-performance memory and the remaining 0.5 GB is much slower.

Nvidia will pay for misleading advertising with the GeForce GTX 970

Finally, when almost no one remembers anymore, Nvidia will have to pay each of the buyers of a GeForce GTX 970 $ 30 for misleading advertising, if not the whole truth about the specifications of your most popular card. In addition, Nvidia will also have to pay $ 1.3 million to the attorneys involved in the lawsuit case.

Nvidia has accepted the settlement of the lawsuit so it will pay all consumers who have purchased the GeForce GTX 970 graphics card with no limit on the total amount that consumers will pay as a whole.

The problem stems from the very architecture of the GM204-200 core used in the GeForce GTX 970, which means that it can only efficiently use a maximum of 3.5 GB of memory. Once this limit is exceeded, the bandwidth is greatly reduced. measure negatively affecting the performance of the card. Added to this is having fewer ROPs and a level 2 cache of 1.75 MB instead of the announced 2 MB.

It is not yet known if all owners of a GeForce GTX 970 or only those residents in certain countries will be able to benefit, so it is necessary to wait a little longer to see how it finally ends.

Source: videocardz