MSI Afterburner

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Original authorAlexey Nicolaychuk
Initial releaseOctober 2009 (2009-10)[1]
Stable release
4.6.6 (Final) / October 2025; 6 months ago (2025-10)
MSI Afterburner
Original authorAlexey Nicolaychuk
DeveloperMSI
Initial releaseOctober 2009 (2009-10)[1]
Stable release
4.6.6 (Final) / October 2025; 6 months ago (2025-10)
Preview release
4.6.7 Beta 2 / 12 February 2026; 54 days ago (2026-02-12)
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows
TypeOverclocking
LicenseFreeware
Websitemsi.com/Landing/afterburner/graphics-cards

MSI Afterburner is a graphics card overclocking (OC) and monitoring utility.[2] Developed by MSI (Micro-Star International) and previously Alexey Nicolaychuk, developer of RivaTuner, it is widely used for enhancing the performance of graphics cards, especially in gaming and high-performance tasks. Afterburner can overclock the GPU and video memory, monitor hardware temperatures, perform benchmarks and display an on-screen display to show frames per second, temperatures, GPU and CPU usage, etc. MSI Afterburner is compatible with Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPUs, including iGPUs.[3][4]

MSI Afterburner first released in October 2009, for Windows XP and later.[5]

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