According to a press release, , the new Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P sports the new AMD AM3 socket and the 45nm AMD Phenom II processors featuring HyperTransport 3.0 and integrated DDR3 memory controller. The GA-MA790FXT-UD5P also features 8+2 CPU VRM power phase design. The board is also equipped with the AMD 790FX North Bridge, and offers Dual x16 PCI-E 2.0 graphics interface to deliver ATI CrossFireX support.

The release further states that the GA-MA790FXT-UD5P has 2 ounces of copper for both the Power and Ground layers, and Japanese Solid Capacitors boasting 50,000 hours of operation, ferrite core chokes and Lower RDS(on) MOSFETs that features a lower resistance. The GA-MA790FXT-UD5P has a combined total of up to 10 SATA 2.0 device support. In addition to the 6 SATA 2.0 (3Gb/s) ports from the SB750 (with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and JBOD support), the GA-MA790FXT-UD5P provides an additional 4 SATA 2.0 ports through the onboard JMicron controller (JM363 & JM322 with RAID 0, 1, and JBOD support), enabling the Smart Backup technology which allows users to connect up to 4 SATA 2.0 devices. The GA-MA790FXT-UD5P also features Dual Gigabit LAN connections with Teaming, which allows 2 single connections to act as 1 single connection for twice the bandwidth.

The Gigabyte motherboard is now available in India for Rs.14990 (US$309).