Pretty impressive, but I’d personally be more excited to see Thunderbolt peripherals come down in price.
Hell, I’d settle for thunderbolt peripherals working reliably. Maybe it’s just a Linux problem (or maybe I don’t know what I’m doing), but I’ve never had a thunderbolt dock “just work” as advertised.
Same, and I was on windows. Constant disconnects or trouble connecting to monitors
Yeah monitors are my primary problem too. Can’t get them to work properly at all through the thunderbolt dock.
Interesting. I hadn’t thought of it before, but I have a Thunderbolt 3 dock that works fine with Windows via both USB-C and Thunderbolt - whereas my Steam Deck (in desktop Arch Linux mode) doesn’t like it very much.
Never gonna happen with them pushing this speed boundary as much as I’d also love prices to go down. I’d also like to see more PC compatibility for Thunderbolt hardware on motherboards (besides ASUS)
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Intel is making Thunderbolt 5 official today with promises of up to 120Gbps speeds, theoretical support for 540Hz gaming monitors, 240 watts of charging power, and much more.
This mode requires a high-bandwidth display; otherwise, Thunderbolt 5 supports 80Gbps bidirectional speeds.
Up to 540Hz panels will also be possible for gamers, and perhaps even external GPUs will finally take off with the improved bandwidth on offer here thanks to PCI Gen 4.
Support for up to 240W means gaming laptop manufacturers could opt to not include a separate power port on future devices.
“Thunderbolt 5 will provide industry-leading performance and capability for connecting computers to monitors, docks, storage and more,” says Jason Ziller, general manager of the client connectivity division at Intel.
Microsoft has worked closely with Intel to support USB4 in Windows, with Thunderbolt 5 fully USB 80Gbps standard compliant, too.
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