Intel Announces Thunderbolt 5 With 120 Gbps Bandwidth Boost

[wswartzendruber]

Man, who cares?

EDIT: Not that Michael shouldn't cover this, I mean why do we need this from Intel right now?

[edwaleni]

Is that a laptop?🤔

No. Mini PC.

[samuelec]

Does it means that we will be able to plug external GPUs and running them at decent speed in 4k ?

[loganj]

You can probably get a PCIe card with it if you really need it.

not on laptops

[brad0]

Man, who cares?
EDIT: Not that Michael shouldn't cover this, I mean why do we need this from Intel right now?

Why not?

[Lbibass]

Does it means that we will be able to plug external GPUs and running them at decent speed in 4k ?

It depends. If the GPU has a lot of VRAM, the PCIE speed doesn't matter quite as much. It also depends on the workload.

https://www.techspot.com/review/2396-pcie-bandwidth-test/

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/ar...he%20AMD%20GPU.

[willmore]

Darn, and I just got 40Gbps in iperf3 on my USB4 port and now they moved the goalposts.

*laughs in InfiniBand*

[Quackdoc]

Man, who cares?

EDIT: Not that Michael shouldn't cover this, I mean why do we need this from Intel right now?

lots of people care. because it's really cool tech

[darkbasic]

Awesome, but it needs to find its way first into the USB standard and then into AMD chipsets because otherwise laptop manufacturers won't bother adding Thunderbolt support.

[mb_q]

144 Hz, let alone 540 Hz refresh rate, for displays normally aimed at being watched by humans whose brains can't process images at rates close to those... why, just why ?
Oh yeah, newer and bigger is better and more expensive, too. Sorry, I temporarily forgot about that.

This is a standard DSP thing, you can either massively over-sample everything, or accept dithering, analog processing and other compromises.
Here is a good, extensive write-up:

https://blurbusters.com/blur-busters-law-amazing-journey-to-future-1000hz-displays-with-blurfree-sample-and-hold/