Should comsumers file a world class-action law suit against Nividia's Falsifying GTX970 Specifications???

[Scibbo]

Being one of many people world wide that purchased a gtx 970, after hearing the latest new regarding the gpu's false specifications make me believe I did not get what I agreed on purchasing.

Upon purchasing my gtx970 I was under the impression that it was a 4gb card not 3.5, ROPs were 64 not 56 and memory bandwith was actually 224 GB/s not 224 GB/s aggregate...

I know in Australia, consumer laws deems this product to be recalled or marked as defective and sold much cheaper then its current retail value. ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) would deem this a crime to consumers and would be sued for false marketing and false information regarding the product.

Is this an major issue and should we be seeing a major class-action law suit against Nividia???

Im interested in hearing other peoples thoughts are around the world regarding the gtx 970 and the thoughts of people that have purchased the gpu not getting what they actually paid for.

Cheers

 

[leeb2013]

Being one of many people world wide that purchased a gtx 970, after hearing the latest new regarding the gpu's false specifications make me believe I did not get what I agreed on purchasing.

Upon purchasing my gtx970 I was under the impression that it was a 4gb card not 3.5, ROPs were 64 not 56 and memory bandwith was actually 224 GB/s not 224 GB/s aggregate...

I know in Australia, consumer laws deems this product to be recalled or marked as defective and sold much cheaper then its current retail value. ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) would deem this a crime to consumers and would be sued for false marketing and false information regarding the product.

Is this an major issue and should we be seeing a major class-action law suit against Nividia???

Im interested in hearing other peoples thoughts are around the world regarding the gtx 970 and the thoughts of people that have purchased the gpu not getting what they actually paid for.

Cheers

Being one of many people world wide that purchased a gtx 970, after hearing the latest new regarding the gpu's false specifications make me believe I did not get what I agreed on purchasing.

Upon purchasing my gtx970 I was under the impression that it was a 4gb card not 3.5, ROPs were 64 not 56 and memory bandwith was actually 224 GB/s not 224 GB/s aggregate...

I know in Australia, consumer laws deems this product to be recalled or marked as defective and sold much cheaper then its current retail value. ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) would deem this a crime to consumers and would be sued for false marketing and false information regarding the product.

Is this an major issue and should we be seeing a major class-action law suit against Nividia???

Im interested in hearing other peoples thoughts are around the world regarding the gtx 970 and the thoughts of people that have purchased the gpu not getting what they actually paid for.

Cheers

You did get a 4GB NVidia GTX970. The RAM is simply configured differently than you where aware of, but its all there. So, who is making false claims now?

And as regards any lawsuit, should there be one? NO!

Unless one can prove intent to deceive by NVidia and the performance of the graphics card is LESS than advertised, which it is NOT, then there is no good case for a lawsuit. All the RAM is there - it's just not used as a GTX980 because it's NOT a GTX980. If folks want GTX980 performance and all RAM used in a complete block, buy a GTX980 and pay several hundred dollars more.

Also, one should consider another point: Why would NVidia make any attempt to deceive when computer technology is so thoroughly reviewed by so many tech sites that the information would come to light anyway (as it did). NVidia had NOTHING to gain here. Nothing.

To address your points;

the quoted memory is not the issue. They stated it had 64 ROPs when it actually had 56.

Whether they intended to falsely advertise or not is irrelevant.

One thing they had to gain was making the public think it had equivalent number of ROPs to the 980.

Although many website reviewed the product, the deficiency would only have shown up if more than 3.5GB Vram was used. Reviews aren't always completely thorough.

 

[leeb2013]

Vote against nvidia with your wallet. This will hurt them harder than a lawsuit.

AMD's no better. They advertise the R9 295X2 as an 8GB card, yet because it's a dual GPU card it can only technically use 4GB. This likely because AMD saw Nvidia getting away with the exact same thing with the Titan Z, a card advertised with 12GB VRAM, but only behaves like it only has 6GB.

For all we know, AMD could've been planning to pull their own 970 so to speak with the R9 3XX cards.

well, it does have 8GB, whereas the GTX970 doesn't have 64 ROPs.

 

[Montego]

Should we also have a class action lawsuit against Ubisoft for Watch_Dogs and AC: Unity

Most definitely. After consulting every forum and support site connected with or about ACU and applying every purported solution over the last few weeks, I have yet been able to play this game as I still keep getting the "ACU.exe not responding" notice. The game then locks up with the only way to exit being a reboot. I'm not sure whom is responsible for this fiasco, 'UPlay' or 'Ubisoft', but I wish someone would take responsibility and publish a viable solution.

 

[simonchipmunk]

Being one of many people world wide that purchased a gtx 970, after hearing the latest new regarding the gpu's false specifications make me believe I did not get what I agreed on purchasing.

Upon purchasing my gtx970 I was under the impression that it was a 4gb card not 3.5, ROPs were 64 not 56 and memory bandwith was actually 224 GB/s not 224 GB/s aggregate...

I know in Australia, consumer laws deems this product to be recalled or marked as defective and sold much cheaper then its current retail value. ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) would deem this a crime to consumers and would be sued for false marketing and false information regarding the product.

Is this an major issue and should we be seeing a major class-action law suit against Nividia???

Im interested in hearing other peoples thoughts are around the world regarding the gtx 970 and the thoughts of people that have purchased the gpu not getting what they actually paid for.

Cheers

By golly, I would institute the class action suit.

 

[simonchipmunk]

I agree that the class action suit should be filed.
simonchipmunk

 

[tom42]

How about a class action suit by people named Alice against Cialis? Maybe rename it Cimonica in "honor" of Hilary?

 

[simonchipmunk]

tom42, your remarks were uncalled for.

 

[g-unit1111]

This has gone on long enough and this thread seems to be going nowhere, add this to the pile of the already 1,000,000 NVIDIA bashing threads on this board already. I'm locking this, if one of the other moderators wants to unlock it be my guest.