gtx 970 3.5 GB vram issue

[970customer]

What I hate most is, Nvidia falsely advertised GTX 970s 3.5GB VRAM as 4 GB. Not to mention incorrect values for the L2 cache and ROPs listed under specifications, refusing to admit it for months just so their top executives could earn profit by unloading shares.

Last year, between April and most of November, each transaction of NVDA typically involved less than 3,000 shares.

Within the past two months, Nvidia's largest shareholders garnered a minimum of 4 million dollars.

David Shannon
01/23/2015 - Sold 10,000 Shares
01/21/2015 - Sold 21,400 Shares
01/02/2015 - Sold 8,600 Shares
Approximately $800,000

JONES HARVEY C
12/22/2014 - Sold 88,000 Shares
Approximately 2 Million Dollars

PURI AJAY K
12/03/2014 - Sold 24,250 Shares
11/28/2014 - Sold 34,174 Shares
Approximately 1.2 Million Dollars

You cannot deny that insider trading has occurred as each individual listed above dumped ~10%+ of their total shares.

Source: http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/nvda/insider-trades

 

[Anonymouselite5]

If you're not asking a question please post it as a discussion

Yes I agree with you, lying about specs is not a great thing. Mind you the 970 still works fine and is still quite a popular choice for GPU for alot of people.
Also the GPU DOES HAVE 4GB's of vram, just that the 0.5GB's left is seperate to the rest of the vram, it is still usable just the memory speed is decreased, resulting is a loss of performance. Even so for this fault I still think the 970 actually beats most of it's competition at the price point.

 

[rdc85]

we know that nvidia "driver" algorithm limit vram usage up to 3.5 GB...

if it somehow pass that problem will may start happen,
it more prone (worse) with people with small and slow "windows page file"..

this make me to question the good of this card in the future..
(this back to how good the nvidia driver division to improve it's algorithm to cope with newer apps & game)

but i'm agreed with op, I hope there a fine for nvidia "false marketing"
if they get away with this they will repeat this in the future...

(I heard this same as 660ti "1.5gb"/"2gb" issue, they repeat it again, don't remember it well)