The MSI MPG Trident AS AI 2nd uses an ATX form factor and houses a 1TB NVMe SSD for fast storage access. Its physical footprint measures 410 mm in height, 396 mm in width, and 137 mm in thickness, resulting in a total volume of 22,243.32 cm³ — keeping the chassis relatively compact for a desktop built on full-sized components.
The graphics card features 8GB of GDDR7 VRAM on a 128-bit memory bus, delivering a maximum bandwidth of 448 GB/s and an effective memory speed of 28,000 MHz. Its base clock runs at 2,280 MHz with a turbo of 2,500 MHz, producing a floating-point throughput of 19.2 TFLOPS alongside a texture rate of 300 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 120 GPixel/s. Built on a 5 nm process with 21,900 million transistors, it includes 3,840 shading units, 120 texture mapping units, and 48 render output units. The card supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, ray tracing, DLSS, stereoscopic 3D, double precision floating point, and multi-display output across up to four screens, while connecting via PCIe 5.0. It is compatible with OpenGL 4.6 and OpenCL 3, does not include LHR, and has no RGB lighting.
The CPU runs a 10-thread configuration with six cores clocked at 3.3 GHz and four cores at 2.7 GHz, reaching a turbo clock speed of 4.9 GHz via Turbo Boost version 2 and a clock multiplier of 33. It offers 22 MB of L2 cache and 20 MB of L3 cache, supports 64-bit processing, and has a maximum rated temperature of 105 °C. The processor does not include integrated graphics, does not have an unlocked multiplier, and does not use multithreading.
In PassMark testing, the system achieves a multi-threaded score of 31,588 alongside a single-threaded result of 4,470, reflecting the CPU's overall and per-core processing capability respectively.
The system is equipped with 16GB of DDR5 RAM running at a speed of 5,600 MHz, providing the memory bandwidth and responsiveness suited to its desktop hardware configuration.
The system supports Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.3 for wireless connectivity, alongside a single RJ45 port for wired networking. USB ports include three USB 2.0 connections, one USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A, and one USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C, while there are no USB 3.2 Gen 2, USB 4, or Thunderbolt ports of any kind. Display output is handled by three DisplayPort connections and one HDMI 2.1 port, with no DVI or VGA outputs present. Audio connectivity covers both a 3.5mm headset jack and an S/PDIF output.
The desktop CPU sits in an LGA 1851 socket on a Z890 chipset, carries a TDP of 145W, and uses big.LITTLE technology for its core configuration. It supports a dual-channel memory setup with a maximum capacity of 64GB and a top RAM speed of 6,400 MHz, and is compatible with ECC memory. The system includes Intel Resizable BAR, the NX bit for hardware-level security, and an HDMI output, while the GPU is built on the Blackwell architecture. Supported CPU instruction sets cover MMX, AES, AVX, AVX2, F16C, FMA3, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2. There are no USB-C ports and no mini DisplayPort outputs, and the system does not use air-water cooling. RAM can reach up to 6,400 MHz across two memory channels, and the product is covered by a one-year warranty.
