2.81a is the official one currently.
I have seen other people with strange, un explainable, artifact in their render. Sometime it’s a problem with the video card.
Are you using experimental Blender features?
What kind of render device are you using CPU or GPU ?
In the Blender preferences there is a systems tab, where you can select Cycles Render Devices
Change them To none, OpenCl, or others.
See also this thread : No rendering