Is that RAM causing this?

If your RAM was buggered, then you would have experienced other issues. I am leaning more towards a driver issue. If you close that tab, does your display still look fine, or do the artefacts linger?

I've seen some weird things happen using the Vega APU (Ryzen 5 2400G), especially in games, which is similar to what you are experiencing, but not the exact same. Sticking in the GFX card will make it go away, but then well, you will be using that ancient card.
 
The artifacts go away if you move the mouse around, and it is only in that tab. Varkit, maybe it is the APU then, especially since long stretches of MemTest did not pick up any issues. I'll carry on like this until they launch a new range of APUs.
 
Soul Assassin said:
It's probably that 24/7 x265 encoding you were doing.
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Also possible. Electronics wear during a time, especially during overheating. A damage to the structure is permanent, giving less separation to the noise.
 
Soul Assassin said:
It's probably that 24/7 x265 encoding you were doing.
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If it was heavy 24/7 encoding work over a couple of months it's very possible, as continuous high current draws accelerate the process of electromigration in a processor, which shortens its lifespan.
 
It has been doing that since brand new, it does not seem to appear more when I run video compression on it.
 
Very good question, initially I had it on 2GB but due to the design of the APU I reduced it to the minimum of 64MB. The nature of the APU is it will use system memory of it runs out, and to begin with it is on system memory so why bother.

Today I closed Chrome and started using Edge exclusively, and to my great surprise I have not picked up this issue again, despite heavy usage of whatsapp web. Really strange. But I will keep and eye on it and make sure it stays like that while on Edge.
 
Rouxenator said:
Very good question, initially I had it on 2GB but due to the design of the APU I reduced it to the minimum of 64MB. The nature of the APU is it will use system memory of it runs out, and to begin with it is on system memory so why bother.
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The UMA size determines the amount of ram the gpu has direct access to(vram). If it runs out, it uses a cache, or shared memory to buffer data in and out of vram. This shared space is allocated dynamically.

Not saying small UMA size is the cause of your issue, but maybe worth trying a bigger size as I have seen a similar setup being a little unstable with less than 256MB vram.
 
I'm running the minimum and it works fine, in my case that is 64MB. My AM1 APU allowed me to go down to 16MB but Windows would not load on anything less than 64MB. What I can confirm is the findings of this video, 8GB or 64MB, it does not affect performance on Raven Ridge.

[video=youtube;Y2KPzMeQnWE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2KPzMeQnWE[/video]

Made a total switch to M$ Edge yesterday and so far no graphics annomalies in Whatsapp Web or other sites. I'm willing to bet 50 zak that it was a browser issue in earlier versions of Edge and all versions of Chrome.
 
What happens if you use one of the newer chrome dev releases?

Rouxenator said:
I'm running the minimum and it works fine, in my case that is 64MB. My AM1 APU allowed me to go down to 16MB but Windows would not load on anything less than 64MB. What I can confirm is the findings of this video, 8GB or 64MB, it does not affect performance on Raven Ridge.

[video=youtube;Y2KPzMeQnWE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2KPzMeQnWE[/video]

Made a total switch to M$ Edge yesterday and so far no graphics annomalies in Whatsapp Web or other sites. I'm willing to bet 50 zak that it was a browser issue in earlier versions of Edge and all versions of Chrome.
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Rouxenator said:
Made a total switch to M$ Edge yesterday and so far no graphics annomalies in Whatsapp Web or other sites. I'm willing to bet 50 zak that it was a browser issue in earlier versions of Edge and all versions of Chrome.
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Best of luck, hope it keeps working as it should...
 
Rouxenator said:
I reported the issue with Chrome, not gonna waste anymore time with Chrome for now, Edge is a really cool browser and way faster than Chrome.
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Ag nee sies man.
Any case out of curiousity in chrome please go to chrome://flags

and play with these:

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I went back to çhrómé and tried that out, way worse, corruption on Facebook and in Facebook messenger whenever there is a video you just get a black screen with a green block around where the video should be.

Something is seriously bad with the way google does hardware accelartion on modern APUs. On the plus side I am liking Edge more and more. It has plenty short comings but it is a rock solid and fast browser.
 
Rouxenator said:
I went back to çhrómé and tried that out, way worse, corruption on Facebook and in Facebook messenger whenever there is a video you just get a black screen with a green block around where the video should be.

Something is seriously bad with the way google does hardware accelartion on modern APUs.
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So it is hardware acceleration (driver issue). On the positive side you can disable it in Chrome, so you don't have to use crappy browser.
 
LOL, Edge is pretty good. Way better than I thought. Plus it does hardware acceleration without f...kin up. I never liked Chrome to be hones. I used to be an Opera guy.

Just glad it's not hardware. I never had issues with AMD hardware before.
 
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