is my GPU toast?

[Manc]

So this started maybe 6 months ago, the first time I started a new game after installing a GPU driver, my PC would crash to a black screen as soon as the game launched, usually, after a restart it would work fine, but sometimes it would take a couple.

 

I've been on the 572.60 drivers for some time now, with zero issues, but yesterday I decided to install the 572.70 drivers. After installng the drivers all worked fine and games were running smoothly, today, I started up my PC and every game I tried immidately crashed to a black screen, I rebooted multiple times, tried multiple games, some only crashed when loading into the gameplay, others crashed in the menu.

 

So I though I'd check GPU stats using Afterburned and while setting it all up, this happened

 

 

Is that my VRAM dying or what? is my GPU toast? Obviously, I switched my PC off after that and I writing this on another device.

 

Specs:

 

7800X3D

RTX 4080

32GB DDR5

[Blue4130]

1 hour ago, Manc said:

So this started maybe 6 months ago, the first time I started a new game after installing a GPU driver, my PC would crash to a black screen as soon as the game launched, usually, after a restart it would work fine, but sometimes it would take a couple.

 

I've been on the 572.60 drivers for some time now, with zero issues, but yesterday I decided to install the 572.70 drivers. After installng the drivers all worked fine and games were running smoothly, today, I started up my PC and every game I tried immidately crashed to a black screen, I rebooted multiple times, tried multiple games, some only crashed when loading into the gameplay, others crashed in the menu.

 

So I though I'd check GPU stats using Afterburned and while setting it all up, this happened

 

 

Is that my VRAM dying or what? is my GPU toast? Obviously, I switched my PC off after that and I writing this on another device.

 

Specs:

 

7800X3D

RTX 4080

32GB DDR5

Run the vulkan vram test to check the vram.

 

https://github.com/GpuZelenograd/memtest_vulkan

[leclod]

How are the temps ?

(you always have an igpu to fall back on)

[kitnoman]

4080? It should still be too new to degrade that fast, the actual silicon or vram-wise. Unless you are doing some extreme overclocking and overvolting using LN2 on benchmarks or consistently running hot, outside manufacture defect, the hardware itself should be fine. Do you have records of how hot your gpu has gotten? Are there any critical errors or other unusual notification in event viewer? It might just be a software issue.

Have you tried to rollback tthe drivers? Like using ddu and install the 572.60 driver? If it works, then your fine, wait for another update and skip 572.70. Or alternatively, try further troubleshooting to get the 572.70 working(or if the rollback did not work). Try also updating the OS drivers and bios. 

[Salted Spinach]

23 hours ago, Manc said:

...crash to a black screen as soon as the game launched, usually, after a restart it would work fine, but sometimes it would take a couple...

 

...decided to install the 572.70 drivers...

 

...today, I started up my PC and every game I tried immidately crashed to a black screen...

That is a symptom of GPU being unstable.

 

Get it to boost no higher than 2700Mhz. If you don't know how to do this, find out its factory max boost and apply a negative offset on the core.

 

Let us know if it works