It’s been a long road, but now it’s here: Afterburner has officially emerged from its beta phase. The overclocking, optimization and monitoring software arrives with a new interface, official RTX 50 support and a host of new features.
Afterburner, the light at the end of the tunnel!
Broadly speaking, the software has officially emerged from its beta phase, bringing with it a host of new features. These include native support for NVIDIA RTX 50s and fan support for models with four fans. ASUS’ Astral version comes to mind. However, since MSI doesn’t offer the RX 9000 in its catalog, this series of boards is supported, albeit unofficially. However, the software does support the MP2988 and MP29816A PWM controllers, enabling voltage management on future PCBs using these controllers. Last but not least, the RTX 50 also features an extended memory overclocking limit (+3000 MHz).
On the CPU side, there is experimental support for Ryzen 9000 and Arrow Lake processors in particular.
The user interface is also evolving, with a new Windows 11 skin . The interface can also be used to hide unwanted GPUs such as iGPUs. Last but not least, support for Windows XP has been dropped due to the Visual C++ runtime environment, while the installer will also be lighter.
In short, this new version gains in functionality while bringing support for new PWM controllers. We’ve already talked about this, and we imagine that MSI is about to offer its RTX 5090 Special Edition, a sort of resurrection of the Lightning series of cards dedicated to overclocking. We’ll see what happens, but in concrete terms, gaining in readability while obtaining new card support is always a good thing.
