MSI Afterburner Gets “Unofficial” Support For Radeon RX 9000 GPUs; Also Gets “Future” RTX 50 Series GPUs In The Database

MSI hasn’t officially introduced the support for the RDNA GPUs in the Afterburner tool but it’s developer did it independently.

MSI Afterburner Developers, Unwinder, Adds Radeon RX 9000 GPUs Support to the Software, Allowing Better Control

Roughly two weeks ago, the primary developer of the famous GPU overclocking utility, MSI Afterburner, added support for various GPUs to the tool. However, not every support is official. As per the release notes, the developer, Unwinder, has “unofficially” added the support for the AMD Radeon RX 9000 series GPUs. While MSI hasn’t released any custom RX 9000 editions, due to the popularity of RX 9000 GPUs such as the RX 9070 XT, the developer did it independently.

As I promised some time ago, today we launch new beta of MSI Afterburner with AMD RDNA4 GPU architecture support. I’d like to explicitly mention one more time, that MSI do not sell any RDNA4 based graphics cards, so support for this GPU family inside the application is completely unofficial.

– Unwinder

Even with the unofficial support, RX 9000 GPU owners can do various customizations like overclocking, changing fan curves and other additional tweaks through the MSI Afterburner software. The MSI Afterburner is perhaps, the most popular GPU overclocking software, offering real-time monitoring like temperature, GPU usage, VRAM usage etc.

The latest “unofficial” build is not available on the MSI website and is avaialble on Guru3D for download. You can download both MSI Afterburner 4.6.6 Beta 6 Build 16591 and RTS Setup 7.3.7 Beta 7 Build 28220 from the website. Additionally, the new MSI Afterburner now also offers support for “Future” NVIDIA RTX 500 series GPUs. Considering the relesease date, it could be the GeForce RTX 5050 for both desktop and laptop.

MSI Afterburner v4.6.6 Beta 6 Build 16591 Release Notes:

– Extended +3000MHz memory clock overclocking range tweak for NVIDIA RTX 5000 series graphics cards, which was available as separately downloadable hardware database for the previous beta, is now integrated into distributive.
– Added some future NVIDIA RTX 5000 series GPUs to hardware database.
– Added unofficial AMD RDNA4 GPU family support
– Relaxing preemptive sleep delay is now excluded from cumulative polling time displayed by performance profiler on Overdrive8 capable graphics cards to avoid confusing beginners.
– Fixed missing CPU Power sensor on Intel Arrow Lake CPU family
– RivaTuner Statistics Server has been upgraded to v7.3.7 beta 7

News Sources: @unikoshardware, Guru3D