Question Display problems on MSI Bravo 15 laptop ?

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Tech noob here. I’m running Linux-Tumbleweed-Gnome-Wayland on a 3 yr old MSI AMD Bravo 15 Ryzen 7 laptop. My screen is acting up. See a video sample here: → Imgur: The magic of the Internet

Any idea what the source of the problem could be? Hardware? Connection cabling? Circuit board going bad? I know that’s a broad question but I’m hoping one of you may have seen this particular issue before.
My laptop is a gaming laptop so it has a GPU in it. Let me know if you need hardware details.
The problem will happen for a few minutes then go away for about 5-10 minutes then return for a few minutes. This repeats all day. Started about 3 days ago.

MSI Bravo 15 AMD Ryzen 7 4800H 15.6" 16GB A4DDR-212IN. Model MS-16WK. S/N: K2104N0045901. SKU: Bravo 15 A4DDR-212IN-BBAR748H16GXXDX10EMH
 
Looks like VRAM artifacting.

But; record the desktop within the system (e.g OBS Studio) and look if the artifacting also appears on the recorded video or not.

If it doesn't, issue is after GPU (monitor, cable). But if it also shows up, issue is most likely GPU or GPU drivers.
Also, i don't know how well the GPU drivers are optimized under GNU-Linux distro. Issue could be there too.