The MSI MPG Trident AS AI 2nd follows an ATX form factor and houses a 2TB NVMe SSD for fast storage access. Its physical footprint comes in at 410 mm tall, 396 mm wide, and 137 mm thick, resulting in a total volume of 22243.32 cm³ — a relatively contained chassis given the hardware it accommodates.
The graphics card delivers 30.84 TFLOPS of floating-point performance and is built on a 3 nm process node with 31,100 million transistors, featuring 6144 shading units, 192 texture mapping units, and 80 render output units. It carries 12GB of GDDR7 VRAM across a 192-bit memory bus, with a base memory speed of 1750 MHz and an effective speed of 28000 MHz, yielding a maximum memory bandwidth of 672 GB/s. The GPU runs at a base clock of 2330 MHz with a turbo of 2510 MHz, achieves a texture rate of 481.9 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 200.8 GPixel/s, and connects via PCIe 5. It supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, OpenGL 4.6, OpenCL 3, ray tracing, DLSS, double precision floating point, stereoscopic 3D, and multi-display output across up to 4 screens, while it does not include LHR or RGB lighting.
The processor runs across 10 threads with a core configuration of 6 cores at 3.3 GHz and 4 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 CPU does not include integrated graphics, does not have an unlocked multiplier, and does not use multithreading.
In CPU benchmark testing, the system achieves a PassMark multi-core score of 31,588, reflecting the processor's overall throughput across all cores, while the single-core PassMark result stands at 4,470, indicating per-core processing capability.
The system is equipped with 64GB of DDR5 RAM running at 5600 MHz, providing a substantial amount of memory alongside the bandwidth advantages that come with the DDR5 standard.
The system supports Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.3 for wireless connectivity, and includes a single RJ45 port for wired networking. USB ports consist of three USB 2.0 ports, 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 outputs and one HDMI 2.1 port, with no DVI or VGA connectors present. Audio connectivity includes both an S/PDIF out port and a 3.5 mm headset jack.
The desktop CPU sits in an LGA 1851 socket on a Z890 chipset motherboard, carries a TDP of 65W, and makes use of big.LITTLE technology for mixed-core operation. It supports the NX bit and a range of instruction sets including MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, but does not support ECC memory. The memory subsystem operates across 2 channels with a maximum supported RAM speed of 6400 MHz and a ceiling of 64GB total capacity. Intel Resizable BAR is supported, and the GPU is based on the Blackwell architecture with an HDMI output present. The system does not include air-water cooling, mini DisplayPort outputs, USB-C ports, or XeSS support, and comes with a 1-year warranty.
