A wierd case involving defective AMD Radeon RX 6800 and 6900 GPUs has lately attracted consideration in a video posted on the KrisFix-Germany graphics card restore service YouTube channel. The video mentions that the service has acquired 61 RX 6800/6900 playing cards within the final 3 weeks; 48 of them had been utterly non-repairable with shorted SOC rails, shorted reminiscence rails and shorted reminiscence controller rail. In one of many video feedback, KrisFix states that the cardboard introduced within the video has been disassembled as soon as once more and the GPU die seems to be cracked and one piece is sticking to the thermal pad.
Digging deeper into the foundation of the issue, KrisFix stories that each one 48 playing cards are working the newest Adrenaline 22.11.2 drivers. Whereas there are instances the place drivers can by chance disable GPU thermal safety, it is extremely unlikely that drivers alone will trigger any die to crack. To be secure, it is likely to be a good suggestion to revert to a earlier driver model for now till extra particulars emerge.
Some apparent questions nonetheless stay unanswered. Why are there so many playing cards from Germany and apparently no comparable instances in different areas? Additionally, why ship the playing cards by means of the vendor to the restore service and never the RMA? To not point out that this example got here up proper after AMD acknowledged the steam room difficulty on some new RX 7900 XTX playing cards.
KrisFix is making an attempt to collect extra details about this difficulty and is in search of suggestions from homeowners of RX 6800/6900 playing cards. There can be a follow-up video with the brand new data gathered. In the meantime, KrisFix is testing totally different drivers for playing cards that present comparable signs.
I took my first step into the fantastic world of IT&C after I was about seven years outdated. Whether or not it is from video games or 3D purposes like 3D Max, laptop graphics fascinated me immediately. I am additionally an avid science fiction reader, astrophysicist, and crypto fanatic. In 2006 I began writing computer-related articles and some blogs for Softpedia. I joined the Notebookcheck staff in the summertime of 2017 and am at present a senior expertise author largely overlaying CPU, GPU and laptop computer information.
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