Question 7900 XT artifacting or is something else happening ?

[Fastfishy2]

As shown in this photo, I've noticed these black squares very rarely popping up in some games, first noticed it on GTAV: Enhanced and was able to replicate it in 3Dmark Speed Way.
Core temps under 70c / Vram temps under 81-82c. Latest Adrenaline drivers (it was also happening on the previous driver set).

CPU temps are also fine, literally nothing is abnormal temps wise.

Specs:
Motherboard: Asus ROG B550-A
CPU: Ryzen 5800X3D
GPU: Sapphire Pulse RX 7900 XT (no overclocks applied)
RAM: 32GB DDR4-3200
PSU: Corsair RM 750x 2021
CPU Cooler: Corsair Nautilus 240 RGB
Storage: 1x Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1tb, 1x Evo Plus 2tb, 1x Samsung QVO (Sata) 2tb - most games are running off the NVME drives as is Windows.
OS: Windows 11 Home.

I'm trying to figure out if this is a hardware issue, because if it is I can RMA the card, but I need some way to prove this to the retailer. Which I understand is easier said than done, as these little blotches pop up for a fraction of a second (although you can sometimes predict the general area in a given 3Dmark run they might appear. But they don't appear every run, and never in exactly the same place).

 

[knightdog56]

Have you tried a different monitor, with new cable ?

 

[Fastfishy2]

Have you tried a different monitor, with new cable ?

Not yet but I will when I get home
Edit: Actually, as someone on another forum pointed out, this is from AMD's recording software, meaning it's recording the GPU's output, not the image that the monitor manages to display. So if it were a monitor or cable issue, it wouldn't be getting picked up.

Worth noting also that I ran a 1hr VRAM test on OCCT and it found no errors.

 

[PiersPlowman]

Run the AMD Cleanup Utility to remove the graphics drivers. then go and install the latest drivers from the AMD website.

I am thinking it might be unstable VRAM, but such artifacts are usually permanent rather than intermittent.

Another thing to do would be to boot into an Ubuntu USB and see if the problem persists in Linux. If so, yup - hardware fault.

 

[Fastfishy2]

Run the AMD Cleanup Utility to remove the graphics drivers. then go and install the latest drivers from the AMD website.

I am thinking it might be unstable VRAM, but such artifacts are usually permanent rather than intermittent.

Another thing to do would be to boot into an Ubuntu USB and see if the problem persists in Linux. If so, yup - hardware fault.

I've found it in other places in that benchmark, but I am struggling to replicate it elsewhere, which is pretty annoying. Hopefully the screenshots and clips I have will be enough for an RMA.

 

[Gururu]

There was another post about artifacting in World of Warplanes with the 9070xt. I am wondering if it's the drivers. Did you just get the card and if so what did you have before?

 

[Gaidax]

Run a memory scan on GPU.

 

[PiersPlowman]

There was another post about artifacting in World of Warplanes with the 9070xt. I am wondering if it's the drivers. Did you just get the card and if so what did you have before?

No, I have another AMD card. From what you are describing, the problems could also be due to bugs in WoW. Hard to say because the symptoms you are describing are inconclusive.

I would keep monitoring the card and maybe file a bug report with AMD / the publishers of WoW.

 

[SkyNetRising]

There was another post about artifacting in World of Warplanes with the 9070xt. I am wondering if it's the drivers.

Recompile shaders.
Adrenaline software/Gaming/Graphics/Reset Shader Cache

 

[Fastfishy2]

There was another post about artifacting in World of Warplanes with the 9070xt. I am wondering if it's the drivers. Did you just get the card and if so what did you have before?

I got the card almost a year ago. Only noticed this happening today. It's proving very hard to reproduce the problem outside of 3Dmark Speed Way, and none of the VGA programs I've tried (afterburner etc) will let me underclock my Vram.
I'll try a different Vram scan as OCCT ran for an hour and found nothing.