The MSI MPG Trident AS AI 2nd follows an ATX form factor and houses a 2TB NVMe SSD for fast storage access. Its physical dimensions sit at 410 mm in height, 396 mm in width, and 137 mm in thickness, resulting in a total volume of 22,243.32 cm³ — a relatively compact footprint given the hardware it accommodates.
The graphics card is built on a 3 nm semiconductor process and packs 6,144 shading units, 192 texture mapping units, and 80 render output units, backed by 12GB of GDDR7 VRAM on a 192-bit bus delivering up to 672 GB/s of memory bandwidth with an effective memory speed of 28,000 MHz. The GPU runs at a base clock of 2,330 MHz with a turbo of 2,510 MHz, producing 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 connects via PCIe 5 and supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, OpenGL 4.6, OpenCL 3, ray tracing, DLSS, double precision floating point, and stereoscopic 3D, while also accommodating up to four displays simultaneously through its multi-display support. The card does not include RGB lighting or LHR restrictions, and its 31,100 million transistors underpin the full feature set described above.
The processor runs across 20 threads with a multi-cluster clock configuration of 8 cores at 2.4 GHz and 12 cores at 1.8 GHz, scaling up to a turbo clock speed of 5.3 GHz via Turbo Boost version 2 and a clock multiplier of 24. It carries 36 MB of L2 cache and has a maximum supported temperature of 105 °C, while fully supporting 64-bit operations. The CPU does not feature an unlocked multiplier or integrated graphics.
The system is equipped with 64GB of DDR5 RAM running at 5600 MHz, providing a solid memory configuration for handling demanding tasks and multitasking workloads.
Wireless connectivity is covered by built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.3, while a single RJ45 port handles wired networking. The USB layout includes 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 options consist of three DisplayPort outputs and one HDMI 2.1 port, with no DVI or VGA connectors present. Audio connectivity is provided through a 3.5 mm headset jack and an S/PDIF output.
The desktop CPU sits in an LGA 1851 socket on a Z890 chipset, operates with a TDP of 65W, and employs big.LITTLE technology across its cores. It supports a broad set of instruction sets including MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, along with NX bit support and ECC memory compatibility. Memory runs across two channels with a maximum supported speed of 6400 MHz and a ceiling of 64GB, while Intel Resizable BAR is enabled for the Blackwell GPU architecture on board. The system includes an HDMI output but no mini DisplayPort outputs and no USB-C ports, does not feature air or water cooling, and does not support XeSS. It carries a 1-year warranty.
