It seems that the problem that is affecting the AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series, which was suspected to be caused by a faulty driver, could be caused by a much stranger problem, which is that as we can see in the KrisFix video, the YouTube channel associated with the repair shop that discovered this issuethe controllers were not at fault.
In an important example that correlation does not imply cause, and that is that, although in this case it happened that all the cards were running on the latest version of the AMD driver, there are also millions of GPUs running perfectly on the same controller.
However, there is another correlation, and it is that all the damaged cards had been purchased by different users from the same second-hand sellerprobably after being used for cryptocurrency mining or improperly stored.
This, moreover, is not the whole story, since cryptocurrency mining does not necessarily damage GPUs by itself, but apparently all these cards were in an extremely humid environmenta combination of factors that seems to be why these AMD GPUs broke like this.
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Jordi Bercial
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