AMD Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards are failing en masse for unknown reason. About informs The publication Wccftech is based on a video by YouTube blogger KrisFix-Germany, who is also a service center specialist in Germany.
KrisFix-Germany said that in about a month, 61 Radeon RX 6900 and RX 6800 graphics cards reached its workshop, 48 of which had broken GPUs. In all 48 cases, other similar symptoms were found: a short in the SOC bus, the memory controller bus, and the memory bus itself. Blogger stated that this is the first time he has seen so many defective video cards with the same problems.
Owners of the broken pieces reported that they did not expose the cards to extraordinary stress. Most users were either playing or watching YouTube when the crash occurred.
The exact cause of the malfunctions is unknown to journalists from either Wccftech or KrisFix-Germany. But the blogger pointed out one model – everyone who encountered the problem had installed the Adrenaline 22.11.2 driver, which was released in December 2022.
Wccftech assumes that AMD has released a flawed driver version for their 6000 series graphics cards that disables the thermal protection of the processor. Before an official comment from the manufacturer is issued, journalists advise users of the models in question to refuse to update the driver.
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