The MSI MPG Trident AS AI 2nd follows an ATX form factor and measures 410 mm in height, 396 mm in width, and 137 mm in thickness, giving it a total volume of 22,243.32 cm³. Storage is handled by a 1TB NVMe SSD, offering both ample capacity and the faster transfer speeds associated with the NVMe interface compared to traditional SATA-based drives.
The graphics card carries 16GB of GDDR7 VRAM across a 128-bit memory bus, reaching an effective memory speed of 28,000 MHz and a maximum bandwidth of 448 GB/s. It is built on a 5 nm process housing 21,900 million transistors, with 4,608 shading units, 144 texture mapping units, and 48 render output units delivering a texture rate of 370.1 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 123.4 GPixel/s. The GPU runs at a base clock of 2,410 MHz and boosts up to 2,570 MHz, producing 23.69 TFLOPS of floating-point performance, and connects via PCIe 5. It supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, OpenGL 4.6, OpenCL 3, ray tracing, DLSS, stereoscopic 3D, double precision floating point, and multi-display output across up to four screens simultaneously. RGB lighting is not included, and LHR is not present on this card.
The processor runs across 20 threads with a hybrid clock configuration of 8 cores at 2.4 GHz and 12 cores at 1.8 GHz, and can reach a turbo clock speed of 5.3 GHz via Turbo Boost version 2. It carries 36 MB of L2 cache and operates with a clock multiplier of 24, with a maximum rated temperature of 105 °C. The CPU supports 64-bit computing but does not include integrated graphics, and the multiplier is locked.
The system is equipped with 32GB of DDR5 RAM running at a speed of 5,600 MHz, providing a solid foundation for memory-intensive workloads and multitasking within this gaming PC configuration.
Wireless connectivity is covered by built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.3, while a single RJ45 port handles wired networking. On the USB front, the system provides three USB 2.0 ports, one USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A port, and one USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C port; there are no USB 3.2 Gen 2, USB 4, or Thunderbolt ports of any kind. Display output is handled by three DisplayPort outputs and one HDMI 2.1 port, with no DVI or VGA connectors present. Audio connectivity includes a 3.5 mm headset jack and an S/PDIF output.
This desktop system is built around an LGA 1851 socket on a Z890 chipset, with a CPU TDP of 180W and support for big.LITTLE technology. The processor supports a range of instruction sets including MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, and includes NX bit support. Memory can be configured across two channels, with a maximum supported capacity of 64GB and a top RAM speed of 6,400 MHz; ECC memory is also supported. The GPU is based on the Blackwell architecture and benefits from Intel Resizable BAR, while XeSS is not supported. The system includes an HDMI output but no mini DisplayPort or USB-C ports, and does not feature air or water cooling. There are no USB-C ports present, and the product comes with a one-year warranty.
