Best way to test GPU for artifacts?

[Sensei P]

I have an EVGA GTX 1050Ti and a Corsair CX450M PSU, my old GPU had serious artifacting problems so I'm worried about my new one, how can I test for artifacts? (Just recently built this PC).

[Glitch]

I think artifacts occur with age and/or outdated drivers. You should be fine with the 1050 Ti

[Sensei P]

Originally posted by Glitchman:

I think artifacts occur with age and/or outdated drivers. You should be fine with the 1050 Ti

I'm making sure since I've seen a few textures flicker, from what I believe. (like with sunlight and shadows).

[Omega]

Don't worry about it.

[Sensei P]

Originally posted by Omega:

Don't worry about it.

I'm worried that my GPU is bad ):

[Omega]

Originally posted by Blitz:

Originally posted by Omega:

Don't worry about it.

I'm worried that my GPU is bad ):

The GPU is fine. XD

[Sensei P]

Originally posted by Omega:

Originally posted by Blitz:

I'm worried that my GPU is bad ):

The GPU is fine. XD

Originally posted by Blitz:

Originally posted by Glitchman:

I think artifacts occur with age and/or outdated drivers. You should be fine with the 1050 Ti

I'm making sure since I've seen a few textures flicker, from what I believe. (like with sunlight and shadows).

[Omega]

Originally posted by Blitz:

Originally posted by Omega:

The GPU is fine. XD

Originally posted by Blitz:

I'm making sure since I've seen a few textures flicker, from what I believe. (like with sunlight and shadows).

Some minor flikkering is normal.

If you want to be sure use furmark for a torture test.

[Sensei P]

Originally posted by Omega:

Originally posted by Blitz:

Some minor flikkering is normal.

If you want to be sure use furmark for a torture test.

Alright thanks, the kind of flickering I'm getting is like shadows move and sun rays look a little bit funny when reflecting off of something (just in my opnion).

[Long Ago [Linux]]

The only time you would normally get artifacts caused by the graphics card would normally be if you overclocked it too much, when you test it with something that works it to the max like Unigine Heaven in Extreme settings with full tessellation.

When I overclocked my GTX 750 Ti I found that if I overclocked it to extremes I could start to see artifacts, but due to its hardware regulation to 60 watts max, it would start dropping frames due to hitting that 60 watt power limit which would limit maximum fps before it hit the artifact threshold.

Since the GTX 1050 series can also be powered only from the PCIe slot without any extra power I imagine that also has hardware regulation to its 75 watts max.

But the GTX x50 series are at the low end of high end graphics cards, so you cannot necessarily expect to get smooth high faultless fps at maximum graphics settings.

The most recent graphics card I had problems with was a cheap GT 430 from a no-name manufacturer. It started failing shortly after its 1 yr warranty ran out, but symptom in Windows was "Graphics driver not responding, recovered" and it Linux it strangely randomly caused keyboard and mouse button response to stop, but mouse cursor would usually still move. Eventually it got graphic glitches during boot and nvidia driver in Linux said "hardware not responding" in boot logs. I never had those issues since then with EVGA GTX 550 Ti, MSI Twin Frozr Gaming GTX 750 Ti OC, or current Asus Dual GTX 1060 OC.

[ugafan]

firestrike is good to test with as you'll see a flash of colored squares, most likely during the opening fight sequence.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

EVGA OC Scanner; it will actually be able to reveal the GPU itself is the cause of artifacts.
Flickering is just due to combination of settings in some games overall. That generally not artifacts. Artifacts is a form of corruption; where faulty VRAM causes discolored pixels and such.