the maximum speed of thunderbolt 3 protocol is 40 Gbit/s, the connectivity behind that USB-C port is four lanes of PCI Express Gen 3
the maximum speed of it is 32 Gbps , so the question is how thunderbolt 3 is able to provide throughput that exceed the Computer bus (four lanes of PCI Express Gen 3) ?
How thunderbolt 3 USB-C is able to provide 40 Gbit/s ?
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Re: How thunderbolt 3 USB-C is able to provide 40 Gbit/s ?
According to this site
you can have up to eight lanes of DisplayPort 1.2 data going back and forth, as well as four lanes of PCIe Generation 3
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Re: How thunderbolt 3 USB-C is able to provide 40 Gbit/s ?
thanks for your reply,
Does this means that i have a total of 12 lanes of of PCIe Generation 3 that throughput 96 Gbit/s ? (64 Gbit/s for 8 lanes & 32 Gbit/s for 4 lanes)
so thunderbolt 3 USB-C port can get 12 lanes of PCIe Generation 3 ?
Does this means that i have a total of 12 lanes of of PCIe Generation 3 that throughput 96 Gbit/s ? (64 Gbit/s for 8 lanes & 32 Gbit/s for 4 lanes)
so thunderbolt 3 USB-C port can get 12 lanes of PCIe Generation 3 ?
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Re: How thunderbolt 3 USB-C is able to provide 40 Gbit/s ?
The specs that I saw gave a maximum total throughput of 40Gbit/s
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Re: How thunderbolt 3 USB-C is able to provide 40 Gbit/s ?
so that means TB3 usb-c can get 12 lanes but the maximum total throughput of TB3 protocol is 40GbitStuartR wrote:The specs that I saw gave a maximum total throughput of 40Gbit/s