The MSI Aegis R2 14th follows an ATX form factor and occupies a volume of 54,891.606 cm³, with physical dimensions of 493 mm in height, 231 mm in width, and 482 mm in depth. Storage is handled by a 2TB NVMe SSD, offering fast data access through the NVMe interface.
The graphics card carries 12GB of GDDR6X VRAM across a 192-bit memory bus, delivering a maximum memory bandwidth of 504.2 GB/s and an effective memory speed of 21,000 MHz, with a base GPU clock of 1980 MHz and a turbo clock reaching 2480 MHz. Its 7168 shading units, 224 texture mapping units, and 80 render output units contribute to a texture rate of 554.4 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 198 GPixel/s, while overall floating-point performance sits at 35.48 TFLOPS. Built on a 5 nm semiconductor process and housing 35,800 million transistors, the card connects via PCIe 4 and supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, OpenGL 4.6, and OpenCL 3. It is capable of driving up to four displays simultaneously using multi-display technology, and includes support for ray tracing, DLSS, stereoscopic 3D, and double precision floating point, while LHR and RGB lighting are not present.
The CPU runs at a base configuration of 8 cores at 2 GHz and 16 cores at 1.5 GHz, with a turbo clock speed of 5.8 GHz via Turbo Boost version 2 and a clock multiplier of 20. It supports 32 threads through multithreading and is fully 64-bit compatible, with a maximum rated temperature of 100 °C. Cache consists of 32 MB at the L2 level and 36 MB at the L3 level. The processor does not include integrated graphics and does not have an unlocked multiplier.
In Geekbench 6, the system scores 18,348 in the multi-core test and 2,860 in the single-core test. PassMark results follow a similar pattern, with an overall score of 47,100 and a single-core score of 4,466.
The system comes equipped with 32GB of DDR5 RAM running at a speed of 6000 MHz, providing a capable memory configuration for the platform.
Wireless connectivity covers Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) along with Wi-Fi 6E, 6, 5, and 4, complemented by Bluetooth 5.3. The USB port selection includes four USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports (USB-A), one USB 3.2 Gen 1 port (USB-A), one USB 3.2 Gen 2 port (USB-C), and one USB 3.2 Gen 1 port (USB-C), while USB 4, USB 3.2 Gen 2x2, Thunderbolt 3, and Thunderbolt 4 are not present. For wired networking there is one RJ45 port, and display outputs consist of three DisplayPort outputs and one HDMI 2.1 port, with no DVI or VGA connectors included. Audio connectivity includes an S/PDIF out port, though a 3.5 mm headset jack is not available.
The desktop CPU uses an LGA 1700 socket and is compatible with B760, H770, Z790, H610, H670, B660, and Z690 chipsets, employing big.LITTLE technology and supporting instruction sets including MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, along with an NX bit. It has a TDP of 220W, operates across two memory channels, supports ECC memory, and can accommodate up to 192GB of RAM at a maximum speed of 5600 MHz. The GPU is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture and benefits from Intel Resizable BAR, while XeSS is not supported. The system includes an HDMI output but no mini DisplayPort outputs and no USB-C ports, and air-water cooling is not present. It comes with a 1-year warranty.
