Is my GPU dead?

[The_Airborn]

PC Specs:

• CPU
  AMD Ryzen R7 5800X
• Motherboard
  ROG Crosshair VIII DARK HERO
• RAM
  4x8 Corsair Vengaence RGB PRO 3600 CL18
• GPU
  ASUS RTX 3080 Strix OC
• Storage
  Samsung 980 PRO 1TB NVME
  Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB NVME
• PSU
  Corsair AX1000

So yesterday i posted about GTA V crashing and i got nowhere, today i tried some new solutions and i got these artifacts after it crashed: 



I guess I'm wondering if this might be RAM or CPU related, or if it's guranteed a GPU issue? The GPU has not been overclocked other than the standard ASUS OC mode in GPU Tweak II. I also tried setting it to the normal mode and closing GPU tweak, and while the artifacts didn't show up again the whole system froze and GTA turned into this negative type image before the system shut off (sorry my camera didn't focus properly). 

Memory is running D.O.C.P and cpu with a curve optimizer OC that I have had run stable with in multiple other games like Valheim/CS:GO/Valorant etc over many weeks before I started  trying to play GTA. During my GTA troubleshooting I have tried turning both the ram and CPU down to default values without this preventing the GTA crashes.

Also I get these faulting dlls when GTA crashes and no artifacts are shown:
This is general:
Faulting application name: GTA5.exe, version: 1.0.2245.0, time stamp: 0x604262e9
Faulting module name: GTA5.exe, version: 1.0.2245.0, time stamp: 0x604262e9

This is more gpu related as far as i know and did show up before and after DDU in safemode and Nvidia driver reinstall:
Faulting application name: GTA5.exe, version: 1.0.2245.0, time stamp: 0x604262e9
Faulting module name: nvwgf2umx.dll, version: 27.21.14.6611, time stamp: 0x60749ec6

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll has also shown up as the faulting module

To be fair i just installed AMD Chipset drivers and uninstalled them again as a troubleshooting step for GTA, aswell as uninstalling ASUS Armoury Crate before the artifacting happened. The freeze-> shutoff in the last picture has happened multiple times over the last couple of weeks after opening gta multiple times after it has crashed  in the same windows session. I also have some memory dumps i can upload if anyone is capable of reading those for me.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

[King of Memes]

3 minutes ago, The_Airborn said:

PC Specs:

• CPU
  AMD Ryzen R7 5800X
• Motherboard
  ROG Crosshair VIII DARK HERO
• RAM
  4x8 Corsair Vengaence RGB PRO 3600 CL18
• GPU
  ASUS RTX 3080 Strix OC
• Storage
  Samsung 980 PRO 1TB NVME
  Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB NVME
• PSU
  Corsair AX1000

So yesterday i posted about GTA V crashing and i got nowhere, today i tried some new solutions and i got these artifacts after it crashed: 



I guess I'm wondering if this might be RAM or CPU related, or if it's guranteed a GPU issue? The GPU has not been overclocked other than the standard ASUS OC mode in GPU Tweak II. I also tried setting it to the normal mode and closing GPU tweak, and while the artifacts didn't show up again the whole system froze and GTA turned into this negative type image before the system shut off (sorry my camera didn't focus properly). 

Memory is running D.O.C.P and cpu with a curve optimizer OC that I have had run stable with in multiple other games like Valheim/CS:GO/Valorant etc over many weeks before I started  trying to play GTA. During my GTA troubleshooting I have tried turning both the ram and CPU down to default values without this preventing the GTA crashes.

Also I get these faulting dlls when GTA crashes and no artifacts are shown:
This is general:
Faulting application name: GTA5.exe, version: 1.0.2245.0, time stamp: 0x604262e9
Faulting module name: GTA5.exe, version: 1.0.2245.0, time stamp: 0x604262e9

This is more gpu related as far as i know and did show up before and after DDU in safemode and Nvidia driver reinstall:
Faulting application name: GTA5.exe, version: 1.0.2245.0, time stamp: 0x604262e9
Faulting module name: nvwgf2umx.dll, version: 27.21.14.6611, time stamp: 0x60749ec6

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll has also shown up as the faulting module

To be fair i just installed AMD Chipset drivers and uninstalled them again as a troubleshooting step for GTA, aswell as uninstalling ASUS Armoury Crate before the artifacting happened. The freeze-> shutoff in the last picture has happened multiple times over the last couple of weeks after opening gta multiple times after it has crashed  in the same windows session. I also have some memory dumps i can upload if anyone is capable of reading those for me.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

your gpu isn't dead, its still giving a picture, but it isn't working right. I'd try using your warranty, it should cover that unless you've done something that voided it...

[The_Airborn]

1 minute ago, King of Memes said:

your gpu isn't dead, its still giving a picture, but it isn't working right. I'd try using your warranty, it should cover that unless you've done something that voided it...

It's weird because it was only after this one GTA crash, otherwise it has been running fine. Other than GTA crashing in general that is... No shot at it being a CPU or Memory error? dont want to RMA the wrong thing.

[shdwblsm]

I can read dmps, but I can't promise it'll yield any further information. At worst, I can post the contents for you though.

[tire]

it looks like artifacting to me

[The_Airborn]

Since this was a one time thing I won't go straight for the RMA, what I think caused this was improper removal of armoury crate as the RGB on my GPU still operated in the armoury crate mode even though I uninstalled it. Since using the armoury crate uninstaller I have been able to play for over an hour without crash, where as it crashed after 5-15 minutes before. I also needed to turn off my overclock on the CPU so I guess that the OC+armoury crate/chipset drivers were the culprit. Will update if I have further experiences. 

[The_Airborn]

I will add that reinstalling armoury crate seems to work now aswell, so it was just messing something up after the chipset driver uninstall.