- The MSI Afterburner tool gets a feature to over -clock RTX 5000 GPUs in new ways
- It allows memory voltage and auxiliary tension to be pushed up, which is not currently possible
- While it is only for MSI GPUs to begin with, other card producers will hopefully follow after
The developer of a popular tool for overclocking graphics card improves the software to allow larger benefits to potential to be achieved – albeit only for future RTX 5000 GPUs.
This is the MSI Afterburner app – which, despite the official connection to graphics card manufacturer MSI, works with a number of GPUs – and develops Alexey Nicolaychuk the next step forward for the tool.
As Toms Hardware reports, afterburner ‘Triple Channel Voltage Control’, as explained by Nicolaychuk, gets in a post on Guru3D forums.
What this means exactly is pretty technical and involved, but in a nutshell, the move will give those who use the tool to ramp more than just nuclear voltage in NVIDIA GPU (which is all you can do at the moment).
The new functionality will enable enthusiasts to juice up memory voltage and auxiliary voltage, and to make it unlock additional options to push ever faster image speeds in the best PC games.
The developer is currently testing this feature behind closed doors in a beta of MSI Afterburner, which needs to be released quickly enough.
However, there is a catch, and as Nicolaychuk explains, this extra overclocking ability will be limited to “Future MSI 50×0 graphics card”, so just MSI models of RTX 5000 GPUs. And non -existent boards, only MSI models in the future, swinging around the restrictions NVIDIA’s introduced with standard voltage controls.
As the developer explains, Triple Channel Voltage Control “does not work on the current reference design 5080/5090 card because Nvidia locked access to such PWM controllers there”. (PWM stands for pulse width modulation and it controls the speed at which cooling fans spin).
So it will leave most PC players out in the cold – at least for now, but there is hope that the situation will change.
Analysis: Disappointment for some players – but hopefully other card manufacturers will bring support
The ability to over -clock the graphics card’s memory (VRAM) could initiate significant gains, and this is the most exciting view here. Furthermore, afterburner also enables a boost for core voltage control, which will boast of a higher possible displacement (100 mV against 20 mV at the moment). However, how much difference that can realistically make is unclear.
It is sufficient to say that this may mean that some significant achievements are raising for those who are willing to think of their GPU. The main catch is the limited use of this functionality – it is just MSI’s RTX 5000 models to begin with, as noted, but that may change.
The developer expects future GPUs other than MSI boards to play nicely with Triple Channel Voltage Control, provided other manufacturers do not adhere to NVIDIA’s limitations with regard to the reference design as described above and follows MSI’s lead.
Of course, it is still unknown whether other graphics card manufacturers will bother, but with good luck those who sell higher than boards designed for over-clock-with beef cooling solutions to enable this functionality. After all, it’s an attractive addition to enthusiast over -clockers who pay a lot of money for an NVIDIA RTX 5080 or RTX 5090.
MSI Afterburner continues to make constant progress, and the tool recently brought to the RX 9000 graphics card, albeit unofficially, as MSI does not make them so they could not deliver the developer. Nicolaychuk had to buy a PowerColor table to bring support – when Dev joked at the time, MSI Afterburner is also a bit of PowerColor afterburning now.
