BALTIMORE (Legal Newsline) – A California technology company is being sued over allegations it lied to consumers about the amount of memory one of its graphics and video cards contained.
Stephen Lowe filed the lawsuit on March 9 against Nvidia Corporation claiming its advertisements for the GeForce GTX 970 graphics processing unit were misleading in terms of the amount of storage memory on the product.
U.S. District Court in Baltimore
Nvidia claimed the GTX 970 had a 4 gigabyte “pool of video random access memory 64 raster operations pipelines and 2048 kilobytes of L2 cache capacity” the lawsuit said. However, the product was actually split in two separate pools of memory.
The first “high performance” pool contained about 3.5 gigabytes of memory, and “a second nearly unusable pool” had about 0.5 gigabytes of memory, the suit says. The two-pool system was misleading and deceiving to consumers, the lawsuit said.
According to the lawsuit about 10,000 people have signed a petition seeking refunds from Nvidia over the storage capacity of the GTX 970.
The lawsuit seeks class status for all those that purchased the GTX 970, and asks for damages of more than $5 million plus court costs.
Lowe is represented by Gary E. Mason, Esfand Y. Nafisi and Benjamin S. Branda of Whitfield Bryson & Mason, LLLP in Washington, D.C., and Charles J. LaDuca and Brendan S. Thompson of Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca, LLP, in Bethesda, Md.
United States District Court for the District of Maryland-Baltimore Division case number 1:15-cv-00660.
