And because of it there were issues with the vram overheating in memory intensive workloads, and on some GPUs the vram even separated off the board.

https://www.igorslab.de/en/looming-pads-and-too-hot-gddrx6-m...

Yes I have one that has one fried chip. Once I gave another a Bykski water block with backplate it's been no issue for a year

Ah, filler problems. Microsoft called, they want to tell you about a billion dollar mistake.