Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Nvidia Faces Suit Over GTX970 Performance Claims

Posted by timothy on from the lot-of-work-for-a-few-pixels dept.

According to this story at PC World, Nvidia was hit with a class action lawsuit Thursday that claims it misled customers about the capabilities of the GTX 970, which was released in September. Nvidia markets the chip as having 4GB of performance-boosting video RAM, but some users have complained the chip falters after using 3.5GB of that allocation. The lawsuit says 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. It was filed in the U.S. District Court for Northern California and names as defendants Nvidia and Giga-Byte Technology, which sells the GTX 970 in graphics cards. Nvidia declined to comment on the lawsuit Friday and Giga-Byte couldn't immediately be reached.

2 of 161 comments (clear)

  1. It's worse than just 0.5 GB of slow memory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Memory performance between the two segments (3.5 + 0.5 GB) of memory works in an XOR manner so that accessing the slow segment prevents access to the 3.5 GB segment. Also, the whole memory access issue is a distraction from the fact that Nvidia originally advertised that the 970 had 64 ROPs (when it really has 56) and that it has 2 MB of L2 cache (when it really has 1.75 MB).

  2. Re:Seagate by 0123456 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who would go to the trouble of starting a class action suit over this sort of trivia?

    Lawyers?

    They'll make a few million, and all the GTX970 owners will get a $5 discount coupon off their next Nvidia card.