Nvidia Class Action Lawsuit over GTX 970 performance

I cannot say I am surprised.  People like to sue over just about anything these days.  Of course just because there is a class action lawsuit has been filed doesn’t mean it will go to court and many times these things are settled out of court.  

Question is, are people upset because they got duped into buying a substandard GPU or that they actually used the card and had performance issues. 

My money is on the first.

 Nvidia markets the chip as having 4GB of performance-boosting video RAM, but some users have complained the chip falters after using 3.5GB of that allocation.

The lawsuit says the remaining half gigabyte runs 80 percent slower than it's supposed to. That can cause images to stutter on a high resolution screen and some games to perform poorly, the suit says.

It was filed in the U.S. District Court for Northern California and names as defendants Nvidia and Giga-Byte Technology, which sells the GTX 970 in graphics cards.

The interesting thing about the PC World article is that not only does it name Nvidia (which is obvious) but also Gigabyte who is only a mfg partner reselling the GPU.  If the performance issues were related to Gigabyte boards using Nvidia chips I can understand but, the way I understand it, all of the GTX 970's are at fault.

Stuff like that is what gets lawsuits kicked out of court so this might simply be a "lets run their name thru the mud right before the new AMD chip comes out." sort of thing.  If that is the case I'll cooking up a fresh batch of popcorn for the countersuit.

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