The MSI MPG Trident AS AI 2nd follows an ATX form factor and houses a 2TB NVMe SSD for fast, high-capacity storage. Its physical dimensions come in at 410 mm tall, 396 mm wide, and 137 mm thick, resulting in a total volume of 22,243.32 cm³ — a relatively contained footprint for a desktop system of this specification level.
The graphics card carries 12GB of GDDR7 VRAM across a 192-bit memory bus, delivering a maximum memory bandwidth of 672 GB/s and an effective memory speed of 28,000 MHz, with GPU memory running at 1,750 MHz and a turbo clock of 1,800 MHz base clock sitting at 300 MHz. Floating-point performance reaches 30.84 TFLOPS, backed by 6,144 shading units, 192 texture mapping units, and 80 render output units, producing a texture rate of 481.9 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 200.8 GPixel/s. The chip is fabricated at 3 nm and integrates 31,100 million transistors, connecting to the system via PCIe 5. It supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.5, OpenCL 3, ray tracing, DLSS, double precision floating point, stereoscopic 3D, and multi-display output across up to four screens simultaneously, while RGB lighting is not included and LHR is not present.
The CPU runs across 10 threads with a configuration of six cores 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 includes 22 MB of L2 cache, supports 64-bit processing, and has a maximum rated temperature of 105 °C. Integrated graphics are present, while the multiplier is locked. The processor also features integrated graphics, making it capable of handling display output independently of a discrete GPU when needed.
In PassMark testing, the system achieves a multi-thread score of 31,044, reflecting the combined processing throughput across all available cores and threads. The single-thread result stands at 4,471, representing per-core performance in lightly threaded workloads.
The system is equipped with 64GB of DDR5 RAM running at 5,600 MHz, providing a substantial amount of system memory alongside the bandwidth characteristics that DDR5 brings over its predecessors.
Connectivity options include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.3, and a single RJ45 Ethernet port for wired networking. On the USB side, there are three USB 2.0 ports, one USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A port, and one USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C port; higher-speed USB formats such as USB 3.2 Gen 2, USB 4, and Thunderbolt 3 or 4 are not present. Display output is handled through three DisplayPort outputs and one HDMI 2.1 port, while DVI and VGA connectors are absent. Audio connectivity covers a 3.5 mm headset jack and an S/PDIF output port.
The desktop CPU sits in an LGA 1851 socket paired with a Z890 chipset, carries a 65W TDP, and employs big.LITTLE technology across its core configuration. It supports a broad set of instruction sets including MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, and includes NX bit support, while ECC memory is not supported. The memory subsystem runs in dual-channel configuration with a maximum supported speed of 6,400 MHz and a ceiling of 64GB. Intel Resizable BAR is supported, and the GPU is based on the Blackwell architecture. The system includes an HDMI output but no mini DisplayPort outputs and no USB-C ports. XeSS is not present, and air or water cooling is not included. The product carries a one-year warranty.
