ASRock and ASUS have already revealed its AMD TRX40 motherboard line-up. Now, GIGABYTE presents its own line-up of AMD TRX40 motherboards starting with four models – the GIGABYTE TRX40 AORUS PRO WIFI, GIGABYTE TRX40 DESIGNARE, GIGABYTE TRX40 AORUS MASTER, and GIGABYTE TRX40 AORUS XTREME. The GIGABYTE TRX40 AORUS XTREME will be the brand’s flagship model featuring a direct 16+3 phase digital power design, a Nanocarbon Baseplate, 8mm heat pipes combined with the Fins-Array Technology, durable aluminium I/O armour, and a 50mm chipset fan. The GIGABYTE TRX40 AORUS XTREME also comes with Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.0 wireless networking and a plethora of premium features making it suitable for professional content creators, hardcore gamers, and users that want the best of both worlds

On the other hand, the GIGABYTE TRX40 DESIGNARE is still oriented towards content creation having two Intel gigabit LAN ports and the latest Wi-Fi 6 standard with Bluetooth 5.0 high-speed wireless connectivity. The GIGABYTE TRX40 AORUS MASTER is a toned-down version of the flagship model, and the GIGABYTE TRX40 AORUS PRO WIFI is the entry-level model.

GIGABYTE TRX40 AORUS XTREME


GIGABYTE TRX40 AORUS MASTER

GIGABYTE TRX40 DESIGNARE

GIGABYTE TRX40 AORUS PRO WIFI

GIGABYTE TRX40 AORUS XTREME Unboxing and First Look

First-Class Performance

The GIGABYTE TRX40 AORUS motherboards aim to extract the best performance out of the third-generation Ryzen Threadripper CPUs with select models sporting a 16+3 direct digital power design with all Infineon components, each phase capable of holding up to 70A for a total power output of 1330A. The TRX40 AORUS motherboards also feature 2X Copper Low-Loss PCB design for improved power handling and overclocking potential.

Need for Speed

The GIGABYTE TRX40 AORUS motherboards are all PCI-Express 4.0 ready. The PCIe 4.0 slots are also reinforced with Ultra-Durable Armour to support heavy graphics cards, particularly multi-GPU configurations of up to 4-way SLI/CrossFireX. With PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs now available, GIGABYTE bundles the recently introduced AORUS Gen4 AIC Adaptor with the GIGABYTE TRX40 AORUS XTREME and GIGABYTE TRX40 DESIGNARE motherboards. Also, the GC-Titan Ridge AIC Card is bundled with the GIGABYTE TRX40 DESIGNARE motherboard which offers ultra-fast transfer speeds up to 40Gb/s and support for up to 3 devices for each port. Users can daisy-chain up to 6 devices with the dual USB Type-C ports.

Ultra-Fast Connectivity

The GIGABYTE TRX40 AORUS motherboards feature the latest and fastest networking technologies. The flagship GIGABYTE TRX40 AORUS XTREME features a pre-mounted, server-class Intel X550-AT2 chip for Dual 10 Gbe LAN ports. The GIGABYTE TRX40 AORUS MASTER, on the other hand, comes with AQUANTIA 5Gbe LAN which provides up to 5GbE network connectivity. All the Wi-Fi models come with Wi-Fi 6 standard.

No information on pricing and availability as of this writing. Learn more about the product links below.
GIGABYTE TRX40 AORUS PRO WIFI
GIGABYTE TRX40 DESIGNARE
GIGABYTE TRX40 AORUS MASTER
GIGABYTE TRX40 AORUS XTREME