Is my new Zotac GTX 980 faulty?

[Tourer]

Hello,

Recently I have bought new Zotac GTX 980 reference design. And I haven't toucht anything in it's settings. My pc doesn't crash and I get no errors. But when I play games there is that annoying shadows that looks like pixelated. Also I notice that there are a lot of shimmering, stuff randomly pops up and in GTA 4 I have that annoying light flickering.

Here's my rig:

Intel core i7 4770K 3,5 GHz
16 GB (2x8) Corsair vengeance LP 1600 MHz
Asus Z87 Pro Mobo
Corsair RM850 PSU
Zotac GeForce GTX 980 4GB DDR5

I have all the latest drivers.

And here are some pictures of the things that happen (Of course there will be nothing for light flickering as I can't take picture of that.

1: http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f309/Ptourer/GTAIV2014-11-2310-46-06-60_zps1b0dbcb0.png
2: http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f309/Ptourer/GTAIV2014-11-2310-46-21-68_zpsd588de3f.png
3: http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f309/Ptourer/GTAIV2014-11-2310-44-42-36_zpsa41e02ec.png
4: http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f309/Ptourer/GTAIV2014-11-2310-42-34-41_zpsc25bde4d.png
5: http://s50.photobucket.com/user/Ptourer/media/GTAIV2014-11-2310-45-54-78_zpsb0fca016.png.html?filters[user]=141993984&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=46: http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f309/Ptourer/GTAIV2014-11-2310-44-59-20_zpsc360ac04.png
7: http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f309/Ptourer/ACU2014-11-2310-51-33-55_zpsef8fcc34.png
8: http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f309/Ptourer/ACU2014-11-2310-51-29-46_zps630c6271.png

Any help would be great.

 

[Thaisnang]

I didn't see anything suspicious in those pictures which would make me think your GPU is broken.

 

[Tourer]

I didn't see anything suspicious in those pictures which would make me think your GPU is broken.

If you look closely you can see pixelated yellow color in that petrol station. Shadows are not clean, all edges are pixelated. And in Assasins creed that roof texture flickers.

 

[Thaisnang]

I didn't see anything suspicious in those pictures which would make me think your GPU is broken.

If you look closely you can see pixelated yellow color in that petrol station. Shadows are not clean, all edges are pixelated. And in Assasins creed that roof texture flickers.

If edges are pixelated then enable anti-aliasing in the settings, turn up anisotropic filtering upto 16X it should fix the texture issues. And if the problem still persist then it is a bug.

 

[Tourer]

I didn't see anything suspicious in those pictures which would make me think your GPU is broken.

If you look closely you can see pixelated yellow color in that petrol station. Shadows are not clean, all edges are pixelated. And in Assasins creed that roof texture flickers.

If edges are pixelated then enable anti-aliasing in the settings, turn up anisotropic filtering upto 16X it should fix the texture issues. And if the problem still persist then it is a bug.

That's the thing. I have everything on max. AA is maxed and problem still persist.