[quote]Nvidia has agreed to a preliminary settlement after GTX 970 3.5GB memory fiasco, promising to pay each GTX 970 buyer in the US around $30 as well as $1.3 Million in attorney’s fees.
The overall settlement amount has not been publically disclosed in court papers, though Nvidia has agreed that there will be no cap on the total amount that they will pay to consumers, meaning that all owners of the GTX 970 in the US should get some money back if they apply for it.[/quote]
I knew about the issue going in and I’ve been very happy with the card, so this is just icing on the cake.
Will be some sort of online form to fill out, although not sure how they have people prove they own a 970. Still has to be officially approved by the courts.
On Reddit I have seen people saying that Amazon is giving a 20% refund/credit for any 970 cards purchased through them. I bought my 970 through Amazon and I emailed them about this, but I have not heard back.
I’ll take advantage of this, but honestly I bought the card based off of benchmarked performance of various games. It doesn’t really matter much to me if they were able to get that performance with 4GB of RAM or 3.5GB and some slow RAM.
But hey, if they wanna throw $30 my way, I’ll sure take it and put it towards the 1080ti.
Not to say that what they did wasn’t shady, though. I’m glad to see them getting punished.
Right on, I guess I’ll take $30. I bought the GTX970 off of benchmarks, though, and not specific hardware details, so I can’t say I was ever very upset about the discrepancies. I’ll happily take a $30 rebate on my 1080 just based on the principle of it, though.
My claim was denied after giving them the number they asked for from Windows. Since I’ve already upgraded, I didn’t bother trying to dig up the info again to resubmit.
