Nvidia reimburses GTX 970 buyers to US after memory scandal

Nvidia gives American owners of a GTX 970 the opportunity to receive $ 30 back. That’s the outcome of a settlement the company has reached in a classaction lawsuit brought by disgruntled buyers after the memory quantity scandal.

After calculating what the cost of part of the memory would be and what value the missing performance might represent, the parties arrived at a figure of $30, according to Top Class Action. An average selling price of 350 dollars was assumed. This is a preliminary settlement, details of which have not been disclosed. Nvidia promises to offer the amount to every American buyer who comes forward. The settlement includes a total of 15 class action suites in the US, which are likely to end. Nvidia also pays the attorney’s fees.

The card buyers were unhappy that the GTX 970 didn’t have the amount of memory that Nvidia advertised. The company claimed at the launch that the GTX 970 had 4GB of gddr5, but later had to admit that the memory was divided into a part of 3.5GB and a slower part of 512MB. In addition, the card was found to have 56 rops instead of 64 rops, which the company initially advertised. In addition, the amount of L2 cache was 1792KB instead of 2048KB. Nvidia has always denied that there was intent, and spoke of a communication error.