Is my card OK? (rx 5700 XT)

[Trickit]

Had my gigabyte rx 5700 XT for a few weeks now and I'm starting to see lots of speckles appearing on certain games.
Is this a driver problem?
I did 2 reinstall of the drivers after uninstalling them, but the artifacts are still present.
I've not overclocked or adjusted any settings.
Any help would be appreciated!

 

[Phixsator]

it looks vram related at first quick glance. Try downclock the memory to see if it goes away. If it does you know what is faulty and can RMA the card much easier. In any case it doesn't look right.

 

[Besty]

Had my gigabyte rx 5700 XT for a few weeks now and I'm starting to see lots of speckles appearing on certain games.
Is this a driver problem?
I did 2 reinstall of the drivers after uninstalling them, but the artifacts are still present.
I've not overclocked or adjusted any settings.
Any help would be appreciated!

rma

 

[tamzzy]

agree with all the above.
1) looks vram related
2) rma

 

[chili]

So what causes that and can it be fixed?

 

[Drumroll]

So what causes that and can it be fixed?

vram. It's similar to when a card has been used for long periods for mining or heavily overclocked memory. Usually happens when you overclock a bit too much the vram. If that isn't your case, as you mentioned, some problem with the vram, so RMA it.

 

[Freddie1980]

So what causes that and can it be fixed?

Data is loaded to the video memory which has bad sectors on it and curupts the data which shows as missing polygons on the screen. Its a bit like when we used to burn audio cds, do it to fast and data doesn't copy over correctly and you end up with songs that start skipping. A way round this was to burn at a slower rate and like burning slowing the video memory often fixes corruption errors.