...Nvidia agreed to a preliminary settlement that will resolve claims in a group of proposed class action lawsuits that center around allegations that the company misled consumers about the performance and storage capabilities of its product.
 
Nvidia says it will pay each buyer of the graphics card $30 and will pay an additional $1.3 million in attorneys’ fees, according to settlement documents.
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More info: https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/lawsuit-news/340705-nvidia-settles-graphics-card-false-advertising-class-action/

mikoulyak
Nvidia says it will pay each buyer of the graphics card $30 and will pay an additional $1.3 million in attorneys’ fees, according to settlement documents.

 
who are the real winners in cases like these... smh

Curious to see how many hoops there are for those 30 bucks.

That would put me at $90. But nobody should be fooled into thinking that they get $30 per card back. If they decided to upgrade this go round they already paid the $30 to Nvidia and are basically going to get a $30 rebate on the overpriced 10x0 series GPU's.

bcavnaugh
Now you all know why the GTX 10xx cards cost so much!

Yep. That. You all have fun with your Pascal cards... gonna smh too and wait for Volta.
 
Edit: What goes around comes around.

Vlada011
I don't know but probably most of people are not aware what this mean...
This mean from side of law that all people who were on NVIDIA side during affair with GTX970 didn't had right to justify NVIDIA's moves and from first moment NVIDIA fooled loyal customers. Now even court looking all facts confess that.
All people who tried to justify and explain their moves, reviews, magazines, sites are at least sinners who tried to explain crime, small but crime against customers. This is very important because future and to think logic next time.
And that is now confirmed officially and should be lesson for all NVIDIA fans and now only NVIDIA's, for all people who try to explain similar things in future because they like NVIDIA company, because they could afford premium cards and because loss will not hit their pocket so badly as other people.
 

But hey, they get their $30.

Honestly, biggest waste of time. What they tried to do just hit them right back. Now peeps paying $200+ more to buy a Pascal... The joke is on the customers that started the class action law-suit.

here's some more info on it from newegg: http://blog.newegg.com/nvidia-gtx-970-class-action-lawsuit/
 
seems some 980s, 980 ti, and 960s are included as well? I wonder why though, if anyone wants to dig into that.

Vlada011
That's less important, I would not even ask 30$ back.
It's important that market completely lose minds sometimes and allow to companies to treat them on worse possible way and to offer them stupid improvements for high prices.
Even some of them are so euphoric about new products that justify crimes against selves and other customers only to get at least something...10% improvements OK, 28% improvements for 500$ more OK, never mind... Even if card is crippled to offer only 28% not more for 500$. GTX1080 cost 650$ and TITAN will cost 1200 that's 550$ higher price. If we add 50$ more for custom model we have even less performance difference for 500$ more. Chaos. Complete chaos.
NVIDIA almost convinced market as everything is clear and no one have no right to complain..
What we did? What happen? That's small misunderstand nothing important. 
 

Maybe you misunderstood me. I was being very sarcastic about that $30, that's a joke, but that is how a class action lawsuit works. you have to split the amount equally, so everyone gets their slap happy $30. Meanwhile, Pascal is $200 more... Lol. It's comical, really, because everyone thought (they thought... they didn't think) that they would get back at Nvidia to pay everyone money because Nvidia "lied" about the 970. Yeah, well now everyone pays almost double the price on a 1080 ($499 was the price for a 980. // 499 - 200=$299.) Surely we can't be that naïve that Nvidia is just happily charging their customers $200 extra. Oh, wait... they're greedy, apparently that's everyone's excuse. No, they're charging everyone back. That's too funny.
 
They thought that they would get their money back with the class action law suit. They didn't think that Nvidia would charge more for Pascal.

fearpoint
They should have fought it out in court, but I'm ok with free money.....
 
In the end that's $200 worth of PC free games from my GTX 970 purchase. What a deal!
 
 

you'll only get $30.

Only fools buy AAA games at full price.

Vlada011
I don't know but probably most of people are not aware what this mean...
This mean from side of law that all people who were on NVIDIA side during affair with GTX970 didn't had right to justify NVIDIA's moves and from first moment NVIDIA fooled loyal customers. Now even court looking all facts confess that.
All people who tried to justify and explain their moves, reviews, magazines, sites are at least sinners who tried to explain crime, small but crime against customers. This is very important because future and to think logic next time.
And that is now confirmed officially and should be lesson for all NVIDIA fans and now only NVIDIA's, for all people who try to explain similar things in future because they like NVIDIA company, because they could afford premium cards and because loss will not hit their pocket so badly as other people.
 

Well, as part of the settlement, Nvidia denied all allegations of wrongdoing, and both parties entered into the settlement and agreed upon the terms, believing them to be in the best interests of all parties involved. The settlement just prevents the lawsuit from going to court and getting an official judgement.
 
My guess they probably had enough evidence to get by the VRAM claims, but not enough for the lesser ROP and smaller L2 memory cache, which was improperly advertised.
 
Either way, money for me. This issue is a bit overblown and I have yet to hit this issue.

I guess this also affects some GTX 960 cards. I bought a EVGA GeForce GTX 960 04G-P4-1962-KR 4GB SC GAMING Card. I guess I got screwed on the ramm too because I just received this email from newegg...
 

We have been informed about a class action lawsuit settlement with NVIDIA regarding the GTX 960 graphics card. Newegg is currently awaiting details about the settlement claims process (instructions, website). Once we have this important information, we will send you a follow-up email with the specifics on how you can submit your claim.

If you have any questions regarding the information provided in this email, please don't hesitate to contact Newegg Customer Service through one of the convenient contact methods provided .

Sincerely,
Your Newegg Customer Support Team
 
I wonder if I'll get the same refund. My card didn't cost as much (only $244) but the settlement was $30 per unit and mine was supposed to have 4 GB of ramm as well. I read about it and they 
were going to only get a 12.5% if  Nvidia, , EVGA and Gigabyte had lost the case, but they chose to settle instead and agreed to pay $30 per unit.
 

 


Lol, then go get your $30 while everybody pays $200 more (compared to Maxwell prices) for Pascal.


 
Wow, you must be really butt hurt about that $200 more. You posted 3 times about "get your $30 while everybody pays $200 more (compared to Maxwell prices) for Pascal." I'm curious, did you pay that extra $200 yourself? If so, why didn't you just buy a Pascal and save $200? If not, what are you complaining about? Want a tissue?

Lucifer66
 

Lol, then go get your $30 while everybody pays $200 more (compared to Maxwell prices) for Pascal.


 
Wow, you must be really butt hurt about that $200 more. You posted 3 times about "get your $30 while everybody pays $200 more (compared to Maxwell prices) for Pascal." I'm curious, did you pay that extra $200 yourself? If so, why didn't you just buy a Pascal and save $200? If not, what are you complaining about? Want a tissue?


actually i'm not butthurt at all. I'm laughing at the fact that consumers think that setting up a lawsuit will fix the damages.... No, it doesn't, it makes it worse. Now, Nvidia has every right to charge more for their next product (which they did) so they can get their money back. It's not Nvidia that got screwed, it's everybody that buys a Pascal. I'm laughing at the ones who "thought" (they 'thought', they didn't "think") it would be right do file a lawsuit. It sounds like it's you that's butt-hurt. Were you part of that 970 lawsuit fan club? SMH...

I'm wondering if the $200 is not just due to the lawyer fees, and the fact that they got sued. Maybe they have a little turmoil with the whole idea that customers went out of their way to get a lawsuit and wouldn't take Nvidia's word that they screwed up, so now Nvidia is going to get them back where it hurts, their wallet, I don't know. That would be really low of Nvidia to do that. I'm not going to get into it with you with what Nvidia's reasonings were though, you can go look that up on Nvidia's thread, "GTX 970 3.5 VRAM issue". You have to agree, though, it's very coincidental that the lawsuit is finishing up almost at the same time Pascal is released, with those prices. Very odd. Do you blame them? I surely don't. I'm definitely not that desperate for a new card. You and I both understand it's better to wait for the [smart] people to buy the first released cards, first, and let them dish out the kinks/issues on the first released cards. Remember this, if it happens again, Nvidia will do it all over again, jack the prices. The only ones who failed were the ones who sued in the first place. End of story.