ASUS Announces GPU Tweak III Open Beta

2021/01/18

GPU Tweak overclocking utility has been revamped with an intuitive new interface, automatic profile swapping, and a development process empowered by user feedback

TAIPEI, Taiwan, January 18, 2020 — ASUS announced that today is the start of the open beta for GPU Tweak III, the all-in-one utility for graphics card tuning and hardware monitoring. With its fresh, revamped interface, GPU Tweak III places all of the core overclocking and fan controls right at the forefront to make getting extra performance out of GPUs is quicker and easier than ever. New customization options allow users to resize and reorganize the dashboard, monitoring window, and on-screen display so they can access the exact information they need at any given time. After tweaking profiles for particular games or apps, users can configure GPU Tweak III to manage settings in the background by linking programs through the new Profile Connect feature.

Retuned and tested

In mid-2018, ASUS launched a multi-stage testing and feedback program for GPU Tweak II that culminated into a long-term open beta conducted on the ROG forums. Using the immense amount of user data spanning multitudes of hardware configurations, the GPU Tweak team improved the core overclocking functionality, tuned the backend engine’s stability, and rolled out new features like the OC Scanner in a measured fashion.

So, for the third iteration of GPU Tweak, ASUS aimed to build a flexible architecture that could accentuate the varied use cases of its vast community. Almost every element of the UI can be rescaled, reorganized, and recolored to suit the user’s environment and draw attention to the metrics and data the user wants to track while tuning their system. More performance stats can be monitored, and all of them can be viewed in two different ways on the scalable desktop window or in-game via the extremely customizable OSD style made for GPU Tweak III. To help track metrics over time, users can now also export logs and re-import them to compare performance between sessions.

Under the hood, graphics card tuning and overclocking remains the core focus. The newest version has undergone multiple testing phases to ensure reliable performance with all ASUS, ROG, and TUF Gaming consumer graphics cards while retaining support for graphics cards from other vendors. Preset OC and Silent Modes have been optimized for the latest Nvidia and AMD GPUs, and users who manually tune their cards or use the OC Scanner can now use a save feature to keep settings intact when making system changes. Fan settings now include temperature hysteresis and polling period options to let users control how quickly and smoothly fans respond to thermal changes.

Profile Connect

Games and applications have different graphical demands, which is why overclocking utilities allow users to create multiple performance profiles that can be swapped via menu buttons or hotkeys. Through a new Profile Connect feature, GPU Tweak III provides an automated approach to profile management. After tuning overclocking or fan settings, users can save a profile and link it to the desired program executable so that GPU Tweak automatically applies preferred settings when the assigned games or apps run. With only