The MSI Aegis R2 14th follows an ATX form factor with a height of 493 mm, a width of 231 mm, and a thickness of 482 mm, resulting in a total volume of 54891.606 cm³. Storage is handled by a 2000GB NVMe SSD, combining generous capacity with the faster transfer speeds that the NVMe interface provides.
The graphics card is built on a 5 nm process and packs 21,900 million transistors, with 4608 shading units, 144 texture mapping units (TMUs), and 48 render output units (ROPs) working together to deliver a texture rate of 370.1 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 123.4 GPixel/s. It carries 16GB of GDDR7 VRAM across a 128-bit memory bus, reaching an effective memory speed of 28,000 MHz and a maximum memory bandwidth of 448 GB/s. The GPU runs at a base clock of 2410 MHz with a turbo of 2570 MHz, and its 23.69 TFLOPS of floating-point performance is paired with PCIe 5 connectivity, DirectX 12 Ultimate support, ray tracing, and DLSS. The card supports up to four displays simultaneously via multi-display technology, is compatible with OpenGL 4.6 and OpenCL 3, and includes double precision floating point (DPFP) and stereoscopic 3D support. It does not feature LHR or RGB lighting.
The CPU runs across 28 threads with a core speed configuration of 8 x 2.1 GHz and 12 x 1.5 GHz, and supports multithreading alongside a turbo clock speed of 5.4 GHz via Turbo Boost version 2. Cache provisioning sits at 28 MB of L2 and 33 MB of L3, while the clock multiplier is set at 21 and the multiplier is locked. The processor supports 64-bit computing and has a maximum rated temperature of 100 °C, but does not include integrated graphics.
In standard benchmark testing, the CPU achieves a Geekbench 6 multi-core score of 16,601 and a single-core score of 2,730, reflecting its multi-threaded and per-core processing capabilities respectively. PassMark results follow a similar pattern, with a multi-threaded PassMark score of 43,697 and a single-threaded score of 4,300.
The system is equipped with 32GB of DDR5 RAM running at a speed of 6000 MHz, providing a solid memory foundation for multitasking and demanding applications.
Wireless connectivity covers Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) along with Wi-Fi 6E, 6, 5, and 4, while Bluetooth 5.3 is also built in. On the wired side, a single RJ45 port handles network connections, and the USB layout includes four USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.2 Gen 2 USB-A ports, one USB 3.2 Gen 1 USB-A port, one USB 3.2 Gen 2 USB-C port, and one USB 3.2 Gen 1 USB-C port; there are no USB 4, USB 3.2 Gen 2x2, Thunderbolt 3, or Thunderbolt 4 ports. Display output is handled by three DisplayPort outputs and one HDMI 2.1 port, with no DVI or VGA connectors present. Audio connectivity includes an S/PDIF out port, though there is no 3.5 mm headset jack.
The desktop CPU uses an LGA 1700 socket and is compatible with a range of chipsets including B760, H770, Z790, H610, H670, B660, and Z690, with a TDP of 180W and big.LITTLE technology for mixed-core operation. It supports instruction sets covering MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, along with the NX bit for hardware-level security. Memory support extends to a maximum of 192GB across two channels, with a maximum rated RAM speed of 5600 MHz and ECC memory compatibility. The GPU is based on the Blackwell architecture and benefits from Intel Resizable BAR, while XeSS (XMX) is not supported. The system includes an HDMI output but no mini DisplayPort outputs and no USB-C ports, does not feature air-water cooling, and comes with a one-year warranty.
