- The MSI afterburner tool is obtaining a function for Overclock RTX 5000 GPU in new ways
- Will allow memory voltage and auxiliary voltage to be thrown, which is not currently possible
- While it is only for MSI GPUs to start, hopefully other card manufacturers do the same
The developer of a popular utility for graphic overclocking is improving the software to allow potentially greater increases in performance, although only for future GPU RTX 5000.
This is MSI’s Afterburner application, which despite the official affiliation with the MSI graphics card manufacturer, works with a range of GPU, and developer Alexey Nicolaychuk has revealed the next step forward for the tool.
As Tom Hardware reports, Afterburner is obtaining ‘Triple Canal Voltage Control’ as Nicolaychuk explained in a publication in the Guru3D forums.
What this means exactly is quite technical and involved, but in a nutshell, the movement will allow those who use the tool to increase more than just the central voltage of the NVIDIA GPU (which is all that it can do today).
The new functionality will allow enthusiasts to increase the voltage of memory and auxiliary voltage as well, and make it unlock more possibilities to boost the increasingly fast box velocities in the best PC games.
The developer is currently testing this closed door in a MSI Afterburner beta that should be launched soon.
However, there is a trap, and as Nicolaychuk explains, this additional overclocking capacity will be limited to the “future graphics cards MSI 50×0”, so only MSI Models of RTX 5000 GPU. And neither does existing boards, only MSI models in the future that fader around the restrictions that NVIDIA implement with default voltage controls.
As the developer explains, the triple channel voltage control “will not work in the current reference design 5080/5090 cards because NVIDIA blocked access to said PWM controllers there.” (PWM means pulse width modulation and controls the speed at which the cooling fans are rotating).
So, that will leave most PC players 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 overclock the memory of the graphics card (VRM) could mark considerable profits, and this is the most exciting perspective here. In addition, the posterior is also allowing an impulse for core voltage control, which will have a higher possible displacement (100mv versus 20mv currently). However, the amount of difference you could make realistically is not clear.
It is enough to say that this could mean considerable performance for those who are willing to play with their GPU. The main capture is the limited application of this functionality: to begin only the RTX 5000 MSI models, as noted, but that could change.
The developer expects future GPUs, apart from MSI boards, can play well with triple channel voltage, provided other manufacturers do not adhere to NVIDIA restrictions in terms of the reference design as described above, and follow the example of MSI.
Of course, it is unknown if other graphics card manufacturers will bother, but hopefully, those who sell high -end boards designed for overclockers, with robust cooling solutions, can act to allow this functionality. After all, it is an attractive addition to the enthusiasts Overclockers who pay a lot of money for a NVIDIA RTX 5080 or RTX 5090.
MSI afterburner continues to make constant progress, and the tool recently brought support for RX 9000 graphics cards, although unofficially, since MSI does not do them, so he could not supply the developer. Nicolaychuk had to buy a PowerColor board to provide support, since the DEV joked at that time, MSI’s Afterburner is also a bit after PowerColor now.
