- The MSI afterburner tool obtains a functionality to overclock RTX 5000 GPUs new ways
- This will push memory tension and auxiliary tension, which is not currently possible
- Although it is only for MSI GPUs to start, other card manufacturers will follow
The developer of a popular utility for overclocking graphics cards improves software to allow larger performance increases to be made – although for future RTX 5000 GPUs.
This is the MSI Afterburner application – which, despite the official affiliation with the MSI graphics card manufacturer, works with a range of GPU – and the developer Alexey Nicolaychuk has revealed the next stage of the tool.
As Tom’s equipment reports, Afterburner obtains a “triple channel tension control”, as Nicolaychuk explains in an article on the Guru3D forums.
What this exactly means is quite technical and involved, but in a word, the movement will allow those who use the tool to progress more than the central tension of the NVIDIA GPU (which is all you can do today).
The new feature will allow lovers to justify the tension of memory and auxiliary tension, and this also unlocks other possibilities to push ever faster image frequencies in the best PC games.
The developer is currently testing this closed-door function in a beta version of Post-Brief MSI which should be published early enough.
There is a socket, however, and as Nicolaychuk explains, this additional overclocking capacity will be limited to “future MSI 50×0 graphics cards”, so just MSI models of GPU RTX 5000. And not existing cards, either, only MSI models in the future which deviate from the restrictions set up from Nvidia with default tension commands.
As the developer explains, triple channel tension control “will not work on current reference design cards 5080/5090 because Nvidia has locked access to these PWM controllers there”. (PWM means modulation of the pulse width and it controls the speed at which the fans run).
So that will leave most PC players in the cold – at least for the moment, but there is hope that the situation will change.
Analysis: disappointment for some players – but I hope that other card manufacturers will provide support
The possibility of overclocking memory of the graphics card (VRAM) could inaugurate considerable gains, and this is the most exciting perspective here. In addition, the after-breaker also allows a boost for controlling the nucleus voltage, which will have a possible gap as possible (100 mV against 20 MV currently). The difference that could be realistically is not clear, however.
Just say that this could mean considerable performance elements for those who are ready to tinker with their GPU. The main socket is the limited application of this functionality – these are just MSI RTX 5000 models to start, as indicated, but it could change.
The developer expects the future GPUs apart from MSI cards to play well with triple channel tension control, provided that other manufacturers do not stick to Nvidia restrictions in terms of reference design as indicated above and follow MSI’s advance.
Of course, we do not know if other graphics card manufacturers will disturb, but with a little luck, those who sell high -end boards designed for overclockers – with strong cooling solutions – can act to allow this functionality. After all, it is an attractive addition for passionate overclockers who pay a lot of money for an NVIDIA RTX 5080 or RTX 5090.
MSI Afterburner continues to progress regularly, and the tool recently provided the management of RX 9000 graphics cards, although unofficially, because MSI does not make them, so I could not provide the developer. Nicolaychuk had to buy a PowerColor board to support – as the DEV joked at the time, MSI Afterburner is also a little PowerColor Afterburner now.
