All people’s favorite graphics card tweaking app has been totally up to date for the primary time since 2019. The new construct of MSI Afterburner (opens in new tab) brings full help for Nvidia’s newest RTX 40-series GPUs (opens in new tab) and AMD’s RX 7000-series (opens in new tab) graphics. Intel’s new Arc GPUs additionally obtain restricted help.
Earlier this yr, we reported (opens in new tab) on obvious issues that Afterburner’s lone developer, Alexey ‘Unwinder’ Nicolaychuk, was having securing his compensation from MSI.
As a consequence, Nicolaychuk mentioned that Afterburner was “most likely lifeless,” with the developer citing “battle and politics” as impediments to progress and the implication being that his Russian nationality might have been a stumbling block.
Nonetheless, again then MSI mentioned it was actually dedicated to the app, telling us that it totally meant “to proceed with MSI Afterburner. MSI has been engaged on an answer and expects it to be resolved quickly.”
Effectively, evidently regardless of the issues had been, they’ve certainly been resolved. MSI Afterburner 4.6.5 is now obtainable to obtain and brings with it a protracted record of upgrades.
Together with the aforementioned full help for the most recent Nvidia and AMD graphics, model 4.6.5 additionally presents {hardware} monitoring for Intel Arc GPUs. Nonetheless, as a result of Intel’s {hardware} management API for Arc requires x64 code, there is not any overclocking and tuning help for Arc graphics.
Elsewhere, voltage management help for GA103 and GDDR6X-based variations of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has been added. ‘Experimental’ help for Intel thirteenth Gen CPUs and AMD’s Ryzen 7000 processors is likewise listed within the launch notes.
Anyway, the app is offered to obtain, each from MSI’s web site (opens in new tab) and Guru3D (opens in new tab). So, you are free to obtain the app and clock the twangers off your GPU, whether or not its shiny and new or a dusty outdated ex-mining brick on its final legs. At your individual danger, after all. Do not come crying to us in case your GPU’s mosfets lose the desire to dwell.