Thunderbolt 5 vs. Thunderbolt 4: Everything you need to know

If I could buy a 5k (retina) 120hz 27" monitor that would be endgame for me, I believe this finally has the bandwidth for that.

Will this be common with AMD laptops? I had very few choices in India 2 years back for driving a 5k screen, and they were all Intel and TB4. That Asus doesnt charge and send video at the same time, although my Mac does.

It&#x27;s funny how everything is optional on the usb 4 features graph.<p>Can you do 5 W and 1.1 Mbps and call it usb 4?

The big question is whether VRR monitors will work fine via TB5 connections - because right now they mostly revert to fixed frame rate.

Nice, I&#x27;m eager to upgrade as it&#x27;s really cool to have a single cable to hook up my laptop to all my peripherals and monitors, but so far resolution &amp; refresh rate were quite limited in multi-monitor setups, I think that new standard should finally be able to drive a 4k display at 240 Hz. I don&#x27;t see many Thunderbolt 5 docks yet though, always liked the Lenovo ones but it seems they don&#x27;t have an upgrade yet.

Adam Savage (Myth Buster) did a video on why Apple Thunderbolt-4 is so expensive ($130), by looking at the detail in construction vs cheap alternatives.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;AD5aAd8Oy84?feature=shared" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;AD5aAd8Oy84?feature=shared</a>

I would really love to ditch my desktop and invest in an external GPU but the performance left on the table on most video games when you do that is huge<p>I&#x27;m eager to see benchmarks of eGPUs on Thunderbolt 5

I sometimes wonder why we have to be so gradual?<p>I mean thunderbolt 1 spec was released in 2013. Thunderbolt 5 is the 5th revision in 11 years. Thunderbolt 4 spec was published in 2020, you cannot possibly think about all future needs&#x2F;usages but couldn&#x27;t we have anticipated in 2020 that 5k and 8k screen would be a thing and that people would want more bandwidth than 40gbps?<p>All these standard changes every 2.5 years just create a compatibility mess and confusion for the consumers who don&#x27;t understand why monitor A doesn&#x27;t work well with computer B with cable C.<p>Couldn&#x27;t we have jumped from thunderbolt 1 to 3 to 5 capabilities directly? Would our life have been more miserable had we had to wait a little bit more from an upgrade from say thunderbolt 3 but if it meant that thunderbolt 4 had been released in late 2021 or 2022 with capabilities of current thunderbolt 5 already? Like trading latency for higher improvements over generation? Does that even make sense or where there limiting factors that prevented thunderbolt 5 capable equipment to be built in 2022 already?

Those cables always seem to be insanely expensive and the hardware I have bought up to v3 (I dont have anything with v4 or v5) does not deliver on the promised &#x2F; potential speed. (the promised speed now is far arger)<p>This is primarly external storage. and I paid huge premium for the ThunderBolt 3 external drives to use wy Imac (or Macbook).<p>A USB C drive I use under windows (that at least does not declare itself as Thunderbolt 3, and using a standard (to what extent that exsists) USB C cable is far faster. (and swapping in the true Thunberbolt cable does not not make it any faster)

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tl;dr TB4 to TB5:<p>- 40Gbps =&gt; 80Gbps, up to 120Gbps<p>- min 100 Watt - 140 Watt max =&gt; min 140 Watt - 240 Watt max PD charging<p>This is great, finally there will be 240W charging hardware. There wasn&#x27;t any last time I checked.

People were upset about Apple being forced to switch to USB-C, but just look at how the market moved on without them.<p>Apple Lightening: 480 Mbit&#x2F;s<p>Thunderbolt 5: 120,000 Mbit&#x2F;s