MSI Afterburner
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Original authorAlexey Nicolaychuk
Initial releaseOctober 2009[1]
Stable release
4.6.6 (Final)
/ October 2025
| MSI Afterburner | |
|---|---|
| Original author | Alexey Nicolaychuk |
| Developer | MSI |
| Initial release | October 2009[1] |
| Stable release | 4.6.6 (Final)
/ October 2025 |
| Preview release | 4.6.7 Beta 2
/ 12 February 2026 |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Type | Overclocking |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | msi |
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]