ASUS has shown off its next-gen W890 Workstation motherboard featuring the LGA 4710 socket for Intel's Granite Rapids-WS CPUs.

One of ASUS's biggest surprises at CES was not covered by many, including us. The surprise we are talking about is their next-gen PRO Workstation motherboard, which has now been shown off by ASUS itself. The motherboard is as impressive as one can expect, and it builds upon the Pro WS W790-SAGE SE , the last-gen offering.

Coming straight to the specifications, the ASUS PRO Workstation motherboard is based on the W890 chipset and features the LGA 4710 socket , which will house the next-generation Intel Granite Rapids-WS Xeon CPU family. The motherboard has no official name, but we can expect ASUS to call it the Pro WS W890-SAGE.

The ASUS PRO W890 motherboard has eight DDR5 DIMM slots and features two distinct platform options: a Mainstream option with 4-channel memory support and up to 80 PCIe Gen5 lanes & an Expert option with 8-channel memory support and up to 96 PCIe Gen5 lanes. The ASUS motherboard is going for the "Expert" option with lots of high-end capabilities such as eight DDR5 DIMM slots, which will support up to 2 TB of memory capacities, a total of 7 PCIe x16 slots, all with reinforced steel slot design and equipping up to 7 single-slot GPUs or four dual-slot blower AICs.

For M.2, the motherboard has four dedicated Gen5 x4 slots, cooled by dedicated heatsinks. The Intel W890 chipset is cooled off by a large active fan. Other storage options include four SATA III ports and two SlimSAS ports. The power delivery is intense with four 8-pin connectors, two 4-pin connectors, & a large 24-pin ATX connector. There are easy Debugging features such as a Power On/Off button, a reset button, and a DEBUG LED. Besides these, the motherboard has strong IO with at least 6 USB Type-A, 2 USB Type-C, and three LAN ports.

The motherboard also comes with additional active cooling over the VRMs and a solid heatsink design. We expect the motherboard to cost around $1500-$2000 US if not higher, and will be available soon as ASUS themselves state that the "Future of workstations is almost here". Interestingly, they also list the board for their , which features the NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GB300 Superchip.

Follow to get more of our news coverage in your feeds.