Nvidia settles US GeForce GTX 970 class action – $30 per buyer

[HalloweenJack]

and now Nvidia are classing ALL GTX 9xx cards as legacy with no more performance improvements.....

[jigger]

Really? And I bought a GTX700 expecting Vulkan and DX12 support.

[kalniel]

Really? And I bought a GTX700 expecting Vulkan and DX12 support.

That would be a reasonable expectation, given how AMD cards released before even the 600 series from nVidia have great support for them. Wonder if there will be another class action over the lack of advertised async compute from the 900 series?

[jigger]

I doubt it since the fix was a promise of a Async driver. No driver no Async compute. Maybe we will see a class action law suit because Nvidia said the GTX400-900 cards would be fully DX12 compatible. I don't think it's unreasonable to pay Nvidia prices and expect 4-5 years of driver support and the promised API compatibility.

[HalloweenJack]

Nvidia promised last august a DX12 driver for Fermi - a year later and no driver

[Xlucine]

You mean apart from the the fact Nvidia had pushed out a driver to stop the card using the slow portion GPU/memory.

Name me any silicon chip that didn't have hardware flaws fixed with workarounds in the driver. That's the point of drivers

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

and now Nvidia are classing ALL GTX 9xx cards as legacy with no more performance improvements.....

Well apparently my GTX960 was legacy six months ago!

[ultrasbm]

I have bought two nVidia GPU's in my life...the first was an IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad with a (Flawed) nVidia 8600m in. I moved to ATi/AMD at that point swearing never to give money to that deceitful company ever again.
Until I bought the GTX970...my second (And definitely last!) nVidia GPU.
I only needed it for HDMI 2.0, and then hit how sh*t it was at greater than 1080p performance when it was using the upper end of the VRAM.
Ugh...

[Bambooz]

Complete utter bull####.

GTA V is as smooth as silk when going over 3.5GB with my 970SLI setup.

Stop lying.

Looks like we've got a butthurt fanboi here.
My single factory-OCed 970 absolutely tanks every time I try to crank up the settings so that it uses noticeably more than 3.5GB in GTAV.
From rock solid 60fps at 1920x1200 to miserable 30-45fps console levels, depending on how busy things are ingame. Dial the memory-hog settings back down a bit and it's at 60fps again.
This has gotten somewhat better with patches/game updates over the past year (and recently a cr*ck removing the Arxan copy protection from the game executables entirely), but it's still obvious. Simply saying it's a lie is just stupid fanboi behavior.

Why didn't more vote with there wallets like I did and get a 290x, as it is a few drivers later and it seems I had the better card all round.

People usually try to avoid putting a hotplate into their computers.
The 290X was also quite a bit more expensive at the time when I bought my 970 (319eur vs. hovering around 360-370). The R9 3xx series cards were just around the corner, so they wouldn't have been in the price bracket either.
(plus they turned out to be yet another rebadge job with different memory tech on some of them rather than a new card generation like so many people had hoped)

(who's playing 4K with a 970? Tough for a 1080ti to pull this off).

In the entirety of your ranting text-wall, you're forgetting the in-between resolutions. I'm on 1920x1200 (doesn't sound like much compared to 1080p, but puts noticeably more strain on the 970) and a bunch of people I know play in 2560x1440/1440p

[jigger]

Name me any silicon chip that didn't have hardware flaws fixed with workarounds in the driver. That's the point of drivers

To fix hardware bugs related to software maybe. But thats not the situation we have with the GTX970 is it.

[ultrasbm]

To fix hardware bugs related to software maybe. But thats not the situation we have with the GTX970 is it.

Indeed. It's more to mask the deliberate lies nVidia tried to get away with.

[jigger]

Anyone else feel $30 isn't really going to make things any better?