Moved to the Warranty section.

Hello,
 
For our North American region, we typically approve RMAs within 1 business day once the request has been submitted and your invoice/receipt has been uploaded and verified.

To me that sounds like a GPU fault. Not all artifacting will look the same, although there are some common patterns you probably saw when searching the web.
 
When you call EVGA the engineer will discuss your troubleshooting before you request the RMA.
Don't worry about being charged a fee for this - if the engineer believes the GPU is faulty then RMA it - it's as simple as that!
You will need to pay to ship the product to EVGA. EVGA pays to ship the replacement back.
The troubleshooting you did sounds solid - RAM test, reinstalling windows - did you also reseat the GPU in the slot?
 
A bad SSD would not cause this problem. It really does sound like the GPU.

I had some similar artifacting with a 3060 TI I got this previous Friday from Newegg. I was playing games and using it fine for about a 7-8 hours, then suddenly it froze up, green artifacts appeared everywhere and my PC did a hard reboot, and on restart, only one monitor was working and the artifacts were still there. Reseated the GPU multiple times, tried different cables, removed and clean installed drivers, used DDU to remove any old drivers, etc and even reinstalled Windows, but problem was still there. Made me really scared I had other hardware issues, but I used my old 2060 and there were no problems...so my advice would be to test it with your old GPU, if you hadn’t already. If your old one isn’t having any issues, then it’s more than likely a fault with the new one. Decided to request RMA after that.

Still waiting on my RMA though, that being said, sent it in on Monday, and it was delivered yesterday, but the status still hasn’t updated to received, so I hope it truly is within 3 days.

Good luck with yours too.

Edit 07/30: Just got word that it was received, if that’s any help for understanding the time it takes, I’ll update again when the replacement ships and is received.

Update for me, on Monday they accepted my defective unit and sent out a replacement within the same day, should get to me by Thursday. All in all, very satisfied with their turn around sending me the new one so fast, as they initially were saying it wouldn’t ship until Wednesday.

Edit 08/05: RMA arrived, very pleased that they sent back a new card, as I’d heard sometimes they don’t if supplies are low, even if you sent an essentially new card to them. But even more pleased that I made it past my previous record of 8 hours and the card is still working with no issues. Thanks EVGA