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?

Yes, MSI Afterburner will allow you to overclock your GPU without any hassle and it should be safe if you have some basic understanding of what overclocking means and what's your GPU core clock and memory speeds.

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

MSI Afterburner Beta 4.6.6

  • Ported to VC++ 2022 compiler. Please take a note that due to this change MSI Afterburner will no longer be able to start under Windows XP. Please stay on the previous versions of the product if you need this OS support
  • Please take a note that size of mandatory VC++ 2022 runtime redistributables roughly doubled comparing to the previously used VC++ 2008 redistributables, and we'd like to avoid providing overblown application distributive, drastically increased in size due to bundling newer and much heavier VC++ redistributables with it. To deal with this issue we provide our own original tiny web installer for VC++ redistributables, which allowed decreasing the size of final application distributive drastically even comparing to the previous VC++ 2008 based version. Please take a note that install time can be increased slightly due to downloading VC++ 2022 runtimes redistributables on the fly during installation. If you install MSI Afterburner offline, you can always deploy required VC++ 2022 distributives later with web installer by launching .\Redist\VCRedistDeploy.bat
  • Added voltage control support for AMD RADEON RX 7800XT series graphics cards
  • Added some future NVIDIA GPU PCI DeviceIDs to hardware database
  • Now MSI Afterburner reinitializes skin scaling engine on DPI scaling change events to prevent cases when GUI looks cut off in some cases (e.g. after switching between display resolutions with different DPI scaling settings)
  • Fixed instances enumeration for some performance counters with no localized names (e.g. GPU related Windows performance counters) in PerfCounter.dll plugin
  • Added experimental support for "Beta : Use Unicode UTF-8 for global language support" option enabled in administrative regional OS settings. Now each localization description file contains additional "Codepage" field, defining runtime ANSI to UTF8 conversion rule for selected language pack
  • Seriously revamped German and Ukrainian localizations
  • RivaTuner Statistics Server has been upgraded to v7.3.5:
  • New version's changes list is huge, it includes more than 90 compatibility enhancements, changes and new features including programmable conditional layers support, PresentMon and NVIDIA Reflex integration

Final 4.6.5

  • Added NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40x0 series graphics cards support
  • Added voltage control support for GA103 and GDDR6x based versions of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
  • Added AMD RADEON RX 7900 series graphics cards support
  • Added total board power monitoring support for AMD RADEON RX 7900 series graphics cards
  • Added some future AMD and NVIDIA GPU PCI DeviceIDs to hardware database
  • Added Intel Arc GPUs support to hardware monitoring module. Please take a note that Intel Arc GPUs overclocking and tuning is currently not supported due to Intel hardware control API support limitation to x64 applications only
  • Added experimental support for Intel 13th generation CPUs
  • Added experimental support for AMD Ryzen 7xxx CPUs
  • CPU usage data sources in hardware monitoring module have been switched to alternate implementation based on NtQuerySystemInformation(SystemProcessorIdleInformation), because traditional legacy idle time reporting in NtQuerySystemInformation(SystemProcessorPerformanceInformation) is broken in current Windows 11 22H2 builds
  • Added workaround for broken fixed fan speed programming API (Overdrive 5 compatible fallback path) for old Overdrive 7 GCN GPUs on 22.5.2 and newer AMD drivers
  • Added config file switch for disabling native reliability voltage control API on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 9x0 series graphics cards and forcing legacy P-state 2.0 voltage control API usage on such hardware. Power users may use this switch to bypass voltage control lock on NVIDIA Maxwell series graphics cards on release 515 and newer drivers families
  • Improved correction formula parser with data format conversion, rounding and min/max functions support
  • Added OCMailbox based bus clock frequency monitoring for Skylake and newer Intel CPUs. Unlike traditional legacy timestamp clock based bus clock frequency estimations, OCMailbox provides support for overclocked BCLK monirtoring. Please take a note that access to OCMailbox is blocked by design of OS when HVCI is enabled
  • Improved SMART.dll monitoring plugin. Added temperature monitoring support for NVMe devices, including the secondary controller temperature for some Samsung NVMe drives
  • Default clock frequency limit of voltage/frequency curve editor window has been extended to 3.5GHz. Please take a note that you may still customize the limits via config file if necessary
  • Update server location changed to new URL inside update checking system. Old update server location reached EOL

RivaTuner Statistics Server has been upgraded to v7.3.4

  • New version's changes list is huge, it includes more than 100 compatibility enhancements, changes and new features. We continue improving OverlayEditor plugin and the most of improvements are related to it, we strongly recommend you to try it if you still use legacy MSI Afterburner's On-Screen Display output functionality
  • New version also includes upgraded DesktopOverlayHost utility, which can be used to display overlay right on your Windows desktop or on small external display mounted inside PC case similar to AIDA64's SensorPanel