MSI Afterburner beta introduces Radeon RX 9000 series support

MSI Afterburner has forgone support for AMD's most recent Radeon RX 9000 series graphics cards, in large part due to the fact that MSI does not make any. Now, the developer behind Afterburner is correcting this with a new beta update, which brings support for RDNA 4 graphics cards. 

The most recent beta versions of MSI Afterburner, specifically Afterburner 4.6.6 Beta 6 Build 16591, and its companion program, RivaTuner Statistics Server Beta 7 Build 28220, now support RDNA 4 GPUs. These builds can be found in Guru3D (via UNIKO's Hardware), but they are not yet accessible on the official Afterburner website.

The official patch notes for MSI Afterburner v4.6.6 Beta 6 Build 16591 can be found below:

• 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

Note that compatibility for “future GPUs from NVIDIA” is also mentioned in the changelog for this beta update. Although this might be a reference to the recently released RTX 5050, it also raises the possibility that there are other unannounced Nvidia products in the works.

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KitGuru says: This update offers the much-needed support for RDNA 4 graphics card users who rely on Afterburner to adjust GPU settings, apply custom fan curves, or prefer the powerful overlay features offered by RTSS.

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