Display issue - small boxes being drawn out of place.

I am having a display issue on my desktop. It looks like small boxes of pixels are being drawn slightly out of place. This occurs across applications and just started after several months of usage without the problem. The only thing that I think really changed is I updated Google Chrome. It occurs mostly if I have a video playing on screen, but will still occur else where, generally when the screen is changing a lot (dragging windows, scrolling, etc). I can generally see that the squares being drawn are part of the video playing, but they are drawn outside the frame of the video.
I attached ascreenshot to better exemplify what I am describing. Has anyone seen this before and/or know how to fix it? I have not changed my display settings since I got the computer. Restarting the computer did not help.
Built-in iMac Display, 27-inch (2560 x 1440) AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1024 MB graphics

Thanks for your reply. After a restart, I ran Rember on all available memory. It used about 2.8 GB (out of 4GB) and passed every test.
I did manage to get a screenshot with the desktop itself being drawn incorrectly. I have seen menu items at the top of Google Chrome screw up a few times, but never for Finder.
This image looks just plain wrong:
And here you can see that the some of the terminal window is not drawn, or the desktop is drawn over it (this screenshot is while the terminal is in focus):
Are there any pure graphics card tests so I can confirm that that is what is wrong?
Thanks,

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