Question Urgent Help Needed RX 7700 XT Showing Strange Artifacts in Multiple Games Is My GPU Dying?

Apr 7, 2025
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Hey everyone, I’m seriously concerned that my RX 7700 XT (bought brand new 6 months ago) might be dying, and I really need your help identifying whether this is a hardware issue or not—especially since my seller’s warranty has already expired.
I've noticed in the past few days appearance of rapidly flashing colored dots and black squares in the Quarry game when SSAO is enabled strange is that when I deactivate ssao option in the setting of the game resolves the issue , Also in FC 25 During replay scenes, I see fast-blinking white dots near the audience like random photographer's camera flashlight and in A Plague Tale Requiem I noticed Green pixels flicker only when "Resolution Optimizer" is set to Quality (not Ultra) , And similar things in many other games as well such as Horizon Forbidden West, Warzone....
I’ve done clean driver installs multiple times using DDU and AMD Cleanup. Even tried different driver versions.
The card temperature is completely normal, as it does not exceed 60 degrees in extreme conditions
So now I’m honestly worried could this be a sign of a failing graphics card? Or is it just a software/driver issue?

Here are some links to screenshots and video clips from my PC screen that show the problem more clearly :

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Any help even the smallest advice or test suggestion would mean a lot to me identifying the root cause, or any advice on what tests I can do to confirm if the GPU is defective . I’m out of warranty and not sure what my next steps should be.
Thanks so much in advance for your time and support!

MY SETUP :
R5 5600
B550M AURES
DEEP COOL AK400
RX 7700 XT GIGABYTE OC
8×2 GB RAM
SSD M.2 500GB + 1TB HDD
PSU FSP 550W
 
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It’s below recommended but unlikely to be an issue. The 7700XT is a 250W card, 300W at the most and the 5600X is a 65W chip under an all core load. With the rest of the system added in you’ll be struggling to crack 350W.

High PSU recommendations is covering themselves, efficiency curves, degradation of old units, AIBs doing silly things and the existence of things like the 14900K which can suck down 250W on its own.
 

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