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It's safe to assume a solution like this will use the full thunderbolt spec and probably have all 4 lanes of the PCIe bus the to PCIe x16 slot and use the 4 remain pins for the rest of the io. How these lanes are divided up depends on the the first device plugged into the host. "Additionally, to fill this Thunderbolt link, the silicon extracts and routes up to 4 lanes of PCI Express Gen 3(4 x 8 Gbps) and up to two full (4 lane) links of DisplayPort out over the Thunderbolt cable and connector to the device(s) attached downstream from the host system." This provides bidirectional data rates of 20 or 40 Gbp." the Thunderbolt silicon activates its highest capability mode and config- ures four high-speed links at either 10 Gbps or 20 Gbps (depending on cable and device support) to support the Thunderbolt transport. Thunderbolt 3 Mode - If a cable and device supporting it. "In the Thunderbolt mode, Thunderbolt 3 port has the ability to support at least one or two (4 lane) DisplayPort interface(s), and up to 4 lanes of PCI Express Gen 3" and lists USB Only ModeĭisplayPort Only Mode - a single four lane (4 x 5.4 Gbps, or HBR2) link of DisplayPortĭisplayPort and USB Mulit-Function Mode - one of the high speed connector pin pairs of signals will be dedicated to DisplayPort (now 2 lanes at 5.4 Gbps) and one to USB 3.1 This allows for a basic connectivity for data and display devices such as docking stations or data and display dongles.
Skeptical123 - Monday, Jlink So I went down a little bit of a rabbit hole looking this up.Are there any news on whether AMD will implement TB3? I'm mainly concerned about laptops, as in desktop machines we can always buy the Gigabyte GC-Alpine Ridge add-in card. Why wouldn't they rather go for a GPU only solution, or add a second TB controller for the non-GPU devices? Or am I missing something here?ģ. This seems like a pretty tough limitation, potentially neglecting the point of putting a powerful GPU in this box. This leaves roughly 40-15=25 Gbps for the GPU. A back-of-the-envelope calculation of theoretical bandwidth used by SATA, GbE and USB3.0 (assuming one bus with shared bandwidth over all 5 ports) I get 6+1+5+3=15 Gbps. How does the GPU handle the varying performance load from these other devices? Does it get dedicated static bandwidth assigned over PCIe or is it dynamic depending on the non-GPU devices' load?Ģ. Many vendors now include multiple connectors such as storage and networking in eGPU cases, but they still only use one TB3 connector. AdditionalPylons - Thursday, Jlink Three questions:ġ.POST A COMMENT 18 Comments View All Comments
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