MSi Afterburner is a free utility that lets you overclock, monitor, benchmark, and video capture. Regardless if you have an Nvidia or AMD-based GPU, MSI Afterburner works with all brands of graphics cards.
Afterburner gives you complete control over your hardware, lets you monitor in real-time, and it’s completely free. All important information including the GPU core clock, memory clock, temperature, voltage, and fan speed have a real-time on-screen-display monitor in games and real-time information in the Windows Tray Icon. All adjustments can be saved as profiles, and users can quickly switch to different settings with hotkeys.
Is it safe to overclock my GPU with MSI Afterburner?
As long as you know what you’re doing, then yes, MSI Afterburner will allow you to overclock your GPU without any hassle.
Does MSI Afterburner work with integrated graphics?
No, integrated graphics won’t work with Afterburner. It will however work with any Nvidia and AMD GPUs, even in laptops.
Is MSI Afterburner better than Asus GPU Tweak?
Asus GPU Tweak lets you monitor and overclock your GPU as well, but it only works with Asus GPUs, while MSI Afterburner will work with any Nvidia and AMD GPU regardless of the brand.
MSI Afterburner for Android
You can use the MSI Afterburner for Android to monitor and overclock your machine from your Android device. To use the MSI Afterburner App you must have installed the MSI Afterburner Remote Server on your computer.
Install Instructions for MSI Afterburner Remote Server:
To access your machine from your Android device first download and install the Remote Server from the download links found here. Once you download the MSIAfterburnerRemoteServer.zip from TechSpot, extract the file to a folder and run MSIAfterburnerRemoteServer.exe. Once installed, it should appear in the system tray. Click on it and copy the bottom IP address shown (you will need it for the MSI Afterburner App).
Configuring the MSI Afterburner App:
After downloading the MSI Afterburner App for Android on your device and installing MSI Afterburner Remote Server on your computer, open the app and click on settings. In settings select ‘Host IP Address’ and enter the IP address you got from the MSI Afterburner Remote Server (it should be something like 192.168.101.22:82). Once you enter the IP Address your Android device will automatically connect to your personal computer.
Features
Afterburner has added Predator in-game video capture. Gamers can now capture all of their most intense moments in their favorite games and share them on YouTube.
Overclocking tools
Exploring and exceeding the limits of your graphics card might sound scary, but it’s actually easier than you think. Afterburner overclocking tools provide easy and precise access to your graphics card settings. While increasing your GPU’s clock frequency and voltage, the fan speed control will enable you to find the perfect balance between performance and temperature.
One-click Overclocking
OC Scanner is an automated function that will find the highest stable overclock settings for your card. Giving you a free performance boost for a smooth in-game experience thanks to higher FPS.
Custom Fan Profiles
Heat dissipation is an essential factor for graphics card performance. Afterburner lets you fully customize a predefined fan speed curve, allowing you to determine cooling performance all the way!
Video Capture
Share your greatest moments! With Predator, you can record your best performance in games or overclocking without missing a single frame. The Predator software supports the H.264 codec, multiple file formats (.WMV, .AVI), size and quality to capture your match winning frag, beating the game on hard or breaking a record in overclocking.
Hardware Monitor
The Hardware Monitor shows critical hardware information in real-time; temperature, usage, clock speed, and voltage. You can display selected information on-screen to keep an eye on key statistics while you are in game.
What’s New
Added new NVIDIA GPU to hardware database
Added support for revised shared memory layout, introduced in RivaTuner Statistics Server v7.3.2 beta 4
Minor improvements in tray icon monitoring implementation aimed to prevent monitoring tray icons blurring in high DPI modes
RivaTuner Statistics Server has been upgraded to v7.3.2 beta 5
Added voltage control for reference design AMD RADEON RX 6700 XT series graphics cards
Added experimental support for Intel 11th generation CPUs
Added experimental support for mobile AMD Ryzen CPUs
Fixed issue with missing memory temperature sensor on AMD RADEON 5700 / 5700 XT series graphics cards
Increased memory overclocking limit for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30×0 series graphics cards
Added voltage control for reference design AMD RADEON RX 6700 XT series graphics cards
Added experimental support for Intel 11th generation CPUs
Added experimental support for mobile AMD Ryzen CPUs
Fixed issue with missing memory temperature sensor on AMD RADEON 5700 / 5700 XT series graphics cards
Increased memory overclocking limit for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30×0 series graphics cards
RivaTuner Statistics Server has been upgraded to v7.3.2
Final 4.6.3
Added NVIDIA Ampere GPU architecture support:
Added new fan control 3.0 API support
Added new integrated OC Scanner API support, please read below to get more information about new OC Scanner implementation
Updated bundled MSI Overclocking Scanner application:
Starting from 455.xx drivers family, NVIDIA OS Scanner is no longer implemented as a separate software component redistributed with each AIC partner’s overclocking software. Now NVIDIA OC Scanner is integrated into the driver and third party software can natively access it via NVAPI. Such implementation simplifies the process of OC Scanner maintenance for NVIDIA, it is no longer necessary to ship updated software components to AIC partners and re-release each partners’s software when something needs to be changed inside OC Scanner from NVIDIA side. MSI Overclocking Scanner supports both implementations of NVIDIA OC Scanner API:
Old legacy implementation of NVIDIA OC Scanner via separate software components for NVIDIA Pascal and Turing architectures for pre-455.xx drivers family
New integrated NVAPI based implementation of NVIDIA OC Scanner for 455.xx and newer NVIDIA display drivers
New NVAPI based OC scanner implementation features the following changes and improvements:
Automated overlocking support for both core and memory clocks
OC Scanners’s results are now persistent. It means that once the scanning process succeeds, NVIDIA driver internally saves optimized voltage/frequency curve and overclocked memory clock and apply them as new system defaults after reboot, even if you close or uninstall overclocking application. Now there is new “Revert” button inside MSI Overclocking Scanner, which allows you to revert overclocked curve and memory clocks to their real defaults
Manually adjusted clock/frequency curve stability testing functionality is deprecated and no longer available
Added voltage control for reference design NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30×0 series graphic cards
Added new MSI Ampere and Indigo skins by Drerex design
Added experimental support for Intel 10th generation CPUs
Added native NVAPI based implementation of absolute GPU power monitoring for NVIDIA GPUs
Altered synchronization mutex name for AMD SNM registers access in AMD Ryzen temperature monitoring implementation
Fixed abnormally high PCIE bus usage value monitored on NVIDIA GPUs after display driver crash and recovery or on Optimus
platforms when discrete GPU is sleeping
Added workaround for AMD driver bug causing short display flicker during applying new fan settings on some multi-monitor or
single monitor high refresh rate display configurations
Now MSI Afterburner is forcibly disabling Zero RPM when applying new fixed fan speed in order to bypass AMD driver bug
preventing fan control from working when Zero RPM mode is enabled on some systems. If Zero RPM is working properly on your
system and you still want to keep it enabled when adjusting fan speed, you may disable forcible Zero RPM override with power
oriented switch in application configuration file
ow MSI Afterburner is displaying the minimum allowed fan speed in software fan curve editor window on Overdrive 8 capable
AMD GPUs. The latest AMD drivers will not allow you to set fan speed below this limit, that’s by design of driver
AMD ADL components are loaded by absolute path now to prevent possible DLL hijacking
Tightened IO driver access policy, the driver can no longer be accessed by users with no administrative rights
RivaTuner Statistics Server has been upgraded to v7.3.0. This version introduces plugins architecture and brand new visual overlay editor plugin, we strongly recommend you to try it if you’re advanced user and want to customize your OSD beyond the possibilities of MSI Afterburner’s internal OSD layout editor
What’s New 4.6.2
Added voltage control for reference design NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20×0 SUPER series graphic cards
Added voltage control for AMD RADEON RX 5700 series graphics cards
Added new MSI Steampunked, MSI Lightning Anniversary and MSI Mystic skins by Drerex design
Improved hardware monitoring module:
Added CPU temperature monitoring support for AMD Ryzen 3X00 processors family
Added thermal offset for CPU temperature monitoring on AMD Ryzen Threadripper 29X0 processors family
Added package CPU power and per-core CPU power monitoring for AMD Ryzen processors family
Improved monitoring plugins architecture:
Added API function for reading host application’s hardware monitoring timestamp from the plugins. The timestamp is updated by host on each hardware polling iteration, so it allows the plugin to precache and reuse some sensor data if the same physical sensor value is being used in multiple data sources exported by plugin. Such approach is demonstrated in updated CPU.dll plugin for duplicating the same temperature sensor value for all cores on AMD CPU
Added optional plugin unititialization callback function, which is called by the host before unloading the plugins. New multithreaded Ping.dll plugin is demonstrating new function usage to shut down ping monitoring thread properly
Improved monitoring plugins:
Updated CPU.dll plugin is demonstrating AMD Ryzen CPU temperature monitoring implementation and optimal duplication of the same temperature sensor readback for all CPU cores
Added new Ping.dll plugin for monitoring ping to desired server via ICMP echo requests. Please take a note that the plugin is configured to monitor ping to www.guru3d.com by default, it is up to you to specify target server name or IP address in the plugin properties
Improved skin engine:
Optimized skin rendering performance for skins using multiple overlapped animated indicators
Added position smoothing support to skinned indicators
Now skinned applications can forcibly disable indicator animation if necessary
Skin format reference guide has been updated to v1.8 to document these changes
Updated IO driver provides more secure MMIO and MSR access interface
RivaTuner Statistics Server has been upgraded to v7.2.3
Previous versions:
MSI Afterburner 4.4.2
