Is My GPU Dead?

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Earlier today both of my computer monitors suddenly went blank when I was on Youtube. When I restarted my computer I saw a series of horizontal red lines on the Windows loading page. Windows finished loading and I saw blank screens on my monitors. I have confirmed that using my integrated graphics card and using an older gpu (GTX 260) does work. Is my graphics card easily repairable? Is there something else I can do? Does this mean my GPU is dead?

My current GPU: XFX 7970.

Picture of Windows loading page: https://imgur.com/a/RsMEo7G
 
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That sounds fairly certain the HD7970 is now defective.

There are last-ditch things like OVEN BAKING but don't use an oven you'd bake food in, plus even if it works it may only add a couple months.


The cheapest card I saw that I like is a 2-fan EVGA model for $330USD.

You don't want any less since that won't be much of an upgrade, but if you can wait (assuming it's for gaming) you might want a GTX1070 or better card.

Here's how the cards scale: https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_1080_Ti_Gaming_X/30.html

The HD7970 would be similar to a GTX1050Ti so ignoring any CPU bottlenecks then it's roughly:

GTX1060 6GB (almost 2x faster on average), and
GTX1080Ti (almost 4x faster on average)

Very little to no reliable info about next-gen cards yet. I suspect next-gen NVidia (this fall?) will only have small tweaks vs Pascal... I don't think we'll see TENSOR CORES for example yet or gaming cards due to die space and cost (so VOLTA for developers yes).
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSpu6fPCIGA

Basically the GTX1050Ti is a bit faster than a normal HD7970 (925MHz) so add that to the Techpowerup link that should mean a GTX1060 6GB is pretty close to exactly 2X a normal HD7970 in performance.

I went from a GTX680 (similar to HD7970) to a GTX1080 but for most games a GTX1060 gets you nearly the same visual quality as a GTX1080 as there's rapidly diminishing returns beyond a certain point.

I would not get any less than 4GB VRAM for a new graphics card.