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Intel makes Thunderbolt 5 official, promising speeds of up to 120Gbps

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Re: Intel makes Thunderbolt 5 official, promising speeds of up to 120Gbps

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Why the hurry? In the last few years ssd and usb speeds skyrocketed (heatsinks too). Who needs these fast interfaces?

Graphics cards are the first obvious usecase.

Graphics card to what?

Re: Intel makes Thunderbolt 5 official, promising speeds of up to 120Gbps

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Graphics cards are the first obvious usecase.

Graphics card to what?

Hooking up eGPUs to laptops.

I don't really game, but I would like to have a separate eGPU to hook up to my laptop for ML stuff, rather than have a GPU dedicated to a single box.

Re: Intel makes Thunderbolt 5 official, promising speeds of up to 120Gbps

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Why the hurry? In the last few years ssd and usb speeds skyrocketed (heatsinks too). Who needs these fast interfaces?

When I get a new MacBook, a thunderbolt cable is still by far the best way for me to move the 1 or 2 TB of stuff from my old one over.

Re: Intel makes Thunderbolt 5 official, promising speeds of up to 120Gbps

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I still have nightmares from having adopted Thunderbolt 3 early when it was new (Lenovo T480 with TB3 dock). Tons of issues.

And my Surface Laptop 4 doesn’t even have Thunderbolt! But that’s a pathetic failure on Microsoft’s part.

Point being, Thunderbolt is amazing but in a very narrow usage corridor. When it works it’s amazing. When it doesn’t, jokes on you spending $90 on that single cable. I remember an LTT video on I think TB4, testing various combinations of devices and validating (in)compatibility, and spending a lot of time on Lenovo forums for support.

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