MSI Afterburner finally received its first update over 1 year, adding new support for Nvidia RTX 40-series and AMD RX 7000-series GPUs, and keeping an eye on support for Intel’s A-series Arc GPUs. This update also adds a number of minor updates that apply to new and old GPUs, enhancing the functionality and stability of MSI Afterburner.
Afterburner’s development came to an unexpected halt a year ago due to sanctions related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. MSI ran into trouble paying his Afterburner developer, known as “Unwinder”, who lives in Ukraine, so he thought his Afterburner project was done for good. But thankfully that didn’t happen, so MSI was able to sidestep the payment issue, revert Unwinder, and develop a new update for Afterburner.
As a result, this new MSI Afterburner update is massive, adding tons of features to update your overclocking app to current standards. The biggest feature update is the addition of support for Nvidia’s RTX 40 series graphics cards and AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 series graphics cards, allowing gamers to monitor and overclock these new GPUs. Intel Arc GPU support is on the way and monitoring support is being implemented in a new update. Unfortunately there is no overclocking support due to x64 limitations of Intel’s hardware control API.
Additionally, GA103 and GDDR6X based versions of the RTX 3060 Ti are now supported, along with support for select AMD and Nvidia GPU PCI device IDs related to future GPU hardware. Experimental CPU support has also been added, including 13th Gen Intel Core Raptor Lake CPUs and AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors. This will allow MSI to monitor core utilization, clock speeds, temperatures, etc. on these new chips.
Installing RivaTuner in combination with MSI Afterburner also provides a major update. The monitoring tool has been upgraded to version 7.3.4 with over 100 compatibility enhancements, changes and new features added to the application.
New update available for download here.
