MSI Afterburner update may add support for MSI’s new MPG GPU power protection feature
As we recall, MSI Afterburner’s developer, Unwinder, had teased “new hardware” support coming to the utility. He now suggests the engineering sample he mentioned back in October 2025 could be an MSI power supply, which lines up with MSI’s own CES 2026 PSU teasers.
The most likely target is MSI’s new MPG Ai TS PCIe power supply series, which MSI is pitching around a GPU-focused safety feature. MSI calls it “proactive and instant protection,” and its teaser points at 16-pin GPU power monitoring rather than whole-system telemetry.
Source: Guru3D Forums
If that is what the sample hardware is, Afterburner could become the front-end for this feature, exposing status and protection feedback to the user when paired with the new PSUs. This would also fit the RTX 50 launch window, since 12V-2×6 is a hot topic again, and MSI’s own RTX 5090 Lightning is expected to use dual 12V-2×6 connectors.
Source: MSI, TSAIK
MSI has already named the two models it is teasing: MPG Ai1300TS PCIE5 and MPG Ai1600TS PCIE5 . The latter was pictured by an overclocker – you can see this image above. MSI says it will fully reveal the feature at CES 2026 next week, which is also when we should learn what Afterburner support actually looks like and which GPUs, cables, and protections it can report.
Source: MSI Afterburner Forum , Tsaik (HWBOT) , Uniko’s Hardware
