Open Source MSI Afterburner Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to MSI Afterburner for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best open source Windows alternative is Open Hardware Monitor. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to MSI Afterburner and six of them are open source and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Windows alternatives to MSI Afterburner are CapFrameX, NVIDIA Profile Inspector, OCAT and PresentMon.

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  1. Open Hardware Monitor icon

    Open Hardware Monitor

     271 likes

    The Open Hardware Monitor is a free open source software that monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds of a computer.

    79 Open Hardware Monitor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mono
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    CapFrameX

     9 likes

    Benchmarking Tool - Record Frames per Second (FPS), Frametime and Sensors while running your favourite game. Analyse and plot the results, or share them with friends using our cloud service.

    8 CapFrameX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. NVIDIA Profile Inspector icon

    NVIDIA Profile Inspector

     18 likes

    This tool is used for modifying game profiles inside the internal driver database of the nvidia driver. All game profiles are provided by the nvidia driver, but you can add your own profiles for games missing in the driver database.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. OCAT icon

    OCAT

     4 likes

    Open source utility for Windows featuring real-time performance overlays, frame rate analytics, support for Direct3D 11, 12, and Vulkan, detailed offline analysis via PresentMon, low system overhead, hotkey-triggered recording, and customizable overlay options.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    PresentMon

     1 like

    PresentMon is a set of tools to capture and analyze the high-level performance characteristics of graphics applications on Windows. PresentMon traces key performance metrics such as the CPU, GPU, and Display frame durations and latencies; and works across different graphics API...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    PresentMon screenshot 1
     
  7. Yet Another Framework Interface icon

    Yet Another Framework Interface

     1 like

    YAFI is another GUI for the Framework Laptop Embedded Controller. It is written in Python with a GTK4 Adwaita theme, and uses the CrOS_EC_Python library to communicate with the EC.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Python
    • Flatpak
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