The MSI MPG Trident AS AI 2nd follows an ATX form factor and houses a 2TB NVMe SSD for fast, high-capacity storage. The chassis measures 410 mm in height, 396 mm in width, and 137 mm in thickness, with a total volume of 22,243.32 cm³, giving it a defined physical footprint suited to a compact desktop setup.
The graphics card is built on a 5 nm semiconductor process and packs 6144 shading units, 192 texture mapping units, and 80 render output units, delivering 30.84 TFLOPS of floating-point performance alongside a texture rate of 481.9 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 200.8 GPixel/s. It carries 12GB of GDDR7 VRAM on a 192-bit memory bus with an effective memory speed of 28,000 MHz and a maximum memory bandwidth of 672 GB/s, while the GPU runs at a base clock of 2330 MHz and boosts up to 2510 MHz. The card supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, ray tracing, DLSS, OpenGL 4.6, OpenCL 3, double precision floating point, stereoscopic 3D, and multi-display output across up to four screens, connecting to the system via PCIe 5. It does not include LHR or RGB lighting.
The CPU operates across 20 threads with a hybrid clock configuration of 8 cores at 2.4 GHz and 12 cores at 1.8 GHz, reaching a turbo clock speed of 5.3 GHz via Turbo Boost version 2 and a clock multiplier of 24. It comes with 36 MB of L2 cache and 30 MB of L3 cache, supports 64-bit processing, and includes integrated graphics. The processor has a maximum rated temperature of 105 °C and does not feature an unlocked multiplier.
In benchmark testing, the system scores 48,917 in PassMark multi-threaded and 4,633 in the single-threaded PassMark test. Cinebench R20 results show a single-core score of 847 and a multi-core score of 10,181, reflecting the processor's threaded rendering throughput.
The system is equipped with 64GB of DDR5 RAM running at 5600 MHz, providing a fast and high-capacity memory configuration suited to multitasking and memory-intensive workloads.
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 ports, one USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A, and one USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C, with no USB 3.2 Gen 2, USB 4, or Thunderbolt ports present. Display output is handled by three DisplayPort outputs and one HDMI 2.1 port, while DVI and VGA outputs are absent. Audio connectivity includes a 3.5 mm headset jack and an S/PDIF output port.
This desktop system is built around the Z890 chipset with an LGA 1851 CPU socket, a 250W TDP, and employs big.LITTLE technology for its core configuration. The CPU 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 runs across two channels with a maximum supported speed of 6400 MHz and a ceiling of 64GB, with ECC memory support also available. 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 outputs and no USB-C ports, does not feature air-water cooling, and carries a one-year warranty.
