Question Memory leak 5700XT

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I have a 5700XT that been having a memory leak I noticed in the last few days.
I have no idea what to do, I've tried everything to find what's causing the leak. I've reduced my res to 800x600, I've reinstalled Radeon, I've picked through every process on task manager I could deleted programs I've installed in the last few days.
My GPU is at 4gb of usage all I'm doing is watching youtube, when boot up the usage sits around 1.5
 
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is it causing any actual errors? Have you had a out of video memory error at all?

I can see 4 to 6gb is enough for a 1080p game, but its difficult to find figures just for youtube. in most cases that would be tied to the browser you are using.

those are the recommended drivers for the card.

where are you seeing the vram usage? We not getting it mixed up with ram?
I was using watching youtube as a example of average use and not as the problem.
Right now my GPU VRam usage is almost 4 Gigs and all Im doing is tying on this forum
 
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I might be missed here but use DDU properly I say,

Get DDU from guru3d, unzip contents, safe mode without net, use DDU right panel to choose your GPU so it can uninstall correct GPU drivers, check Settings on GUI of the DDU before doing the process. Enable checkboxes related to NVIDIA/AMD (except setup folders at C drive so you don't redownload driver again) Check the box Vulkan Runtimes as well DON'T TOUCH anything else.

On top Clean Install And Restart, this will also purge corrupted/leftover registry entries related to GPU drivers perhaps that is the problem of yours. Screen will be tiny since no drivers. Use Web Browser to download Autodetect at AMD Drivers site, as for NVIDIA, choose proper lists to download your proper names,categories from NVIDIA website.

REBOOT once any driver installed completely, this is vital!

One thing about AMD Drivers using that method, AMD Adrenalin drivers, during the download and install of the display drivers, AMD installer may prompt you additional drivers pop up on your screen AFTER the GPU driver installed, these are usually already selected for you so install them as well. This may take a while. Reboot again.

One thing about NVIDIA drivers, do not select Geforce Experience/nvidia app during the NVIDIA driver installer unless you have hobby as recording gameplay clips for your games.

Good luck
Thank you for the help, I haven't restarted a PC in safe mode in 20 plus years.

Update: it doesn't seem to have worked.
Maybe a clean install of windows if a new GPU in a few months isn't the answer
 
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Colif

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curious where you are seeing the vram usage?
In adrenaline?

the amount seems too consistent. 4gb in youtube... how many tabs on browser? which browser?

curious how my clock speed on gpu is 900 if I run GPU-Z but if I am not, its 80mhz.