Monday, June 9th 2025
MSI Afterburner Dev Working on Support for Radeon RX 9000 Series GPUs
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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Guru3D Forums, VideoCardz, GameGPU, PC Gamer
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.
15 Comments on MSI Afterburner Dev Working on Support for Radeon RX 9000 Series GPUs
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.
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.
Soooo, not so "unknown" after all :D
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.
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
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. :(
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.
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).