Weird graphical glitch after driver "crash" for AMD Radeon 5700 XT - gpu

first time here!
I've stumbled across a very weird visual glitch, consisting of big white "pixels" of white shown in almost perfect repetitive patterns, occurring after my graphics drivers crashed again. A friend of mine considered the way its displayed as too perfect for how it is presented. Photo of Glitch
My GPU has been acting this way for a long while already (I bought it new, no mining or extreme stress prior), initially on Windows 10 where I tried many steps from driver updates and clean re-installs to re-installing whole system.
Now I use Arch Linux on my friends recommendation but the error still occurs, although as of yet with lesser frequency. Just this time it had a distinct look to it, maybe because I haven't been booted to a BSoD?
The question I have now is if this is a case of GPU being broken, or if it is maybe some other hardware component acting up.
Might it be vbios issue? Vram? Maybe mobo? PCI slot was cleaned up by me on many times, temperatures don't seem to be an issue.
My PC specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
GPU: AMD Radeon 5700 XT 50th Aniv. Edition
RAM: 2x16GB DDR4
MB: MSI B450 Gaming Plus
PSU: Corsair VS650 650 Watt
Thank you in advance for any assistance!

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