MSI Afterburner Dev Working on Support for Radeon RX 9000 Series GPUs

[T0@st]

The popular MSI Afterburner overclocking and hardware monitoring program will be updated in the near future, with support for AMD RDNA 4 hardware. Despite the Taiwanese manufacturer's semi-recent shifting away from modern Team Red gaming desktop/discrete graphics solutions, the Afterburner suite's developer has committed to getting official support—at least for current flagships—up and running with the next version. Fortunately, MSI and AMD continue to collaborate on the making of various motherboard models and Radeon iGPU-powered devices.

Last week, Unwinder (aka Alexey Nicolaychuk) outlined early details on the Guru3D discussion board: "as you know, due to some unknown reason MSI decided to skip RDNA 4 and focus on manufacturing NVIDIA GPU-based solutions only this (time) round. Meaning that I get no MSI RDNA 4 hardware samples for development, so there is no RX 9070 XT support in MSI Afterburner, yet. But I decided to close this gap myself, and grabbed a third party hardware vendor's 9070 XT special to add unofficial support for it. So next beta with RDNA 4 support is around the corner, and MSI Afterburner (AB) is a bit PowerColor AB now." As seen in an attached photo, Unwinder has picked up a barebones Reaper Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB model.



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[RejZoR]

Radeon cards are not in such dire need for overclocking tool since there is one in drivers, but it's nice to still have choice.

 

[_roman_]

I never understood why people were using msi afterburner with a radeon 6000 series card.

More power tool may have a reason - afterburner does not have any reason.

3 Months ago finally I could set the fan speed in the gnu userspace with the linux kernel. Very sad.

 

[Tomorrow]

Good to hear. I legit thought he had retired and Afterburner development had ceased considering how long it has been since the last update.
Being able to control voltage and set memory timings default/fast trough afterburner would be nice. It can control core, memory and power, but not everything.

Yes i can control these things trough the Adrenalin control panel, but it has several limitations. I cant set clock profiles with a hotkey. Opening Adrenalin it does not open on the tuning tab by default and i always have to make few extra clicks to get there.

 

[bonehead123]

due to some unknown reason

Well, I think the reason is that little thing we all refer to as M*O*N*E*Y*, M*O*O*L*A*H*, D*O*L**L*A*H*S etc, as in nGreediya paid them (more) to maintain support for their cards and move away from the other ones....

Soooo, not so "unknown" after all

 

[THU31]

I never understood why people were using msi afterburner with a radeon 6000 series card.

More power tool may have a reason - afterburner does not have any reason.

3 Months ago finally I could set the fan speed in the gnu userspace with the linux kernel. Very sad.

Probably for the overlay and RTSS.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

I never understood why people were using msi afterburner with a radeon 6000 series card.

More power tool may have a reason - afterburner does not have any reason.

3 Months ago finally I could set the fan speed in the gnu userspace with the linux kernel. Very sad.

I can think of a pretty good reason:

I'm tired of AMD's drivers randomly forgetting that I have a custom fan curve and OC/UV. Every 2-3 months it will develop Alzheimer's. Even if the driver hasnt updated, it will randomly disappear.

My MSI afterburner settings never disappear.

 

[Igb]

In the phrase “this (time) round” the added clarification not only distorts the message, it is gramatically incorrect. Please refrain from adding context to a citation if 1) it is not strictly necessary 2) you did not actually spend the necessary time to properly comprehend the context and the message.

 

[ToxicTaZ]

MSI dropped AMD 9000 series Fiasco, RDNA4 is not even quite DLSS 3 - Transformer Model quality yet! And not to mention AMD dropped broken RDNA5 hardware tech and went back to the drowning board with UDNA technology. Let's see how that goes.

Maybe once RDNA4 - FSR4 Redstone is finished by years end maybe fill that performance gap with DLSS 3 - Transformer Model level of performance.

AMD RDNA4 - FSR4 is closer to DLSS 3 - CNN Model performance at the moment.

Basically AMD is still a generation behind Nvidia even though NVIDIA 5000 SERIES bombed with broken cores and power issues +not available and unfinished 5000 series drivers etc etc.

I'm sure MSI will be back in the future with next-gen AMD UDNA cards.

Cheers

 

[Rightness_1]

MSi should not be in control of this software. It was about time the author resigned, and went open source, but with crowdfunding him a decent wage instead of him working on scraps in MSi's basement.

 

[bonehead123]

with crowdfunding him a decent wage instead of him working on scraps in MSi's basement.

Yep, so the old saying applies here: "If ya wanna play, ya gotzta pay"

Let the man earn a decent living and he will produce good stuff, otherwise you get what we have now, which is essentially a bloated, resource-heavy, BSOD-inducing, clusterflooked p.o.s.

 

[Luminescent]

Who gives a fu..k about MSI afterburner, after so many years where they ignored AMD, now they want to support them, come on, nobody cares anymore about a tiny, insignificant software that overclocks your GPU.
Almost every GPU manufacturer now has some overclocking tool, Gigabyte, Asus, Sapphire, even AMD has one directly in the driver, why would anyone care to install MSI afterburner now ?
Please MSI, stick with Nvidia, leave AMD alone, it's embarrassing to see this.

 

[Macro Device]

I never understood why people were using msi afterburner with a radeon 6000 series card.

Adrenaline doesn't recognise software errors and resets everything regardless of the nature of the crash. MSi AB lets me keep the settings as I like them to be no matter what happens to Adrenaline software, thanks to me knowing exactly it's the software bugs causing problems for me and not hardware instability (how do I know? I'm testing mods for video games and these mods are written by me and I'm not a good mod developer).

 

[Lagoochu360]

It takes like 5 seconds to save profiles in Adrenaline and re-apply them I don't get the big deal

 

[Tomorrow]

It takes like 5 seconds to save profiles in Adrenaline and re-apply them I don't get the big deal

The problem is that Adrenaline fails silently. There is no notification that settings were reset and even the notification in the control panel lacks a timestamp so i dont know if it failed 100 hours or 1 minute ago.

 

[_roman_]

The issue with amd adrenalin is that game profiles are only applied when they are saved and the game is started fresh again. you can not change anything when the game is running. Very old bug. Reported many times. So often ignored. Bad amd quality since my radeon 6600xt, many years. AMD does not work on the linux drivers properly, windows 10 pro and windows 11 pro drivers in my point of view. I bought the 6600xt when it came fresh on the market, also 6800 non xt and 7800 xt. 3 different cards - all the same issues. Very bad issues. Some stuff are in boht operating systems and are only config file related which the user can fix with lots of testing on the 6000 series for example.