Thunderbolt 3 VS Thunderbolt 4: What's Different?

Dear Sir, I need help and you appear to be HIGHLY HIGHLY skilled in this area. I am in the process of purchasing a dock for my gaming laptop. I am a PC Gamer who works a lot and is always on the go, ergo, I went the gaming laptop route. I wish to having a docking station at home so I can plug in all my peripherals and an external monitor so that when I get home, I just plug in my laptop to the dock and i'm good to go. As far as my setup goes, I plan to use a Dell 27-inch 1080P 144hz gaming monitor (just one), a keyboard, mouse, ethernet, and some speakers. Will a USB-C dock be enough? Or do I need to go the thunderbolt route? Do i connect the monitor to the dock using displayport or hdmi?

Not really enough to warrant a whole generation upgrade it should be more like thunderbolt 3.1 or something like that

USB4 support for TB2/3 is nascent at best !

I own a LG 24MD4KL-B 24 Inch Ultrafine UHD (3840 x 2160) IPS Monitor, P3 Wide Color Gamut 500 nits Brightness, Thunderbolt 3 (x2), USB-C Ports (x3) and I plan on purchasing a mac mini m2 (which has 2 thunderbolt 4 ports). the cable to my thunderport 3 monitor stopped working and needs to be replaced. Would there be any benefits of purchasing a thunderport 4 cable if I plan on using it with a thunderport 3 monitor?

Hi There I have a tricky question. I have a handheld PC, intel based, and I’m using an EGPU enclosure housing a Nvidia 3090. The handheld PC has 2x thunderbolt 3 ports. So If the egpu is connected to one of the ports and charging the handheld pc, what happens if I use a Thunderbolt 3 dock (like the Caldigit TS3 plus) on the 2nd port? My real question would the EGPU and the TS3 plus dock kill the battery of my handheld pc? Because both the thunderbolt 3 ports are capable of receiving power to charge the battery………. Gut feeling it would overcharge the battery

shit man, you are not even running a speediest on data transfer. Unsub. Just not worth my time man.

If I use thunderbolt 3 from an M1 MacBook Pro to an Apple studio display… your saying it’s the same performance as a TB4? Unless in adding more monitors correct?

I've been looking at a NAS / DAS recently as my storage needs is scaling. NOTHING in the low - to medium price range has TB 4 ports. Heck, most are only kicking around TB 3 and USB 3.1 1st Gen (5Gbps). You really have to spend a little bit more to get the fastest specs.

the difference is 1.





I'll see myself out.

I am looking to get a new monitor. What are the Pros and Cons if my computer has TB4 or my monitor has TB3?

My new audio interface is thunderbolt 3 and my macbook pro is 4. There should be no issue if I go ahead and use a thunderbolt 4 cable right? Also is it better for me to plug the audio interface directly into my laptop or better to use a hub?

Are thunderbolt 3 cables going to be compatible/useful for thunderbolt 4 ports?

TH4 doesn’t work on my MacbookPro. My dock drops my speakers instantly with no sound. Apple continues to break more than they make.

It's difficult to get excited about Apple "technology" when you're hetero... and not a cult-member. PS: why is iOS speech-to-text SO lame?

is thunderbolt 3 forward compatible with thunderbolt 4?

is looking stupid is part of the specification process when making videos?

Can I use a Thunderbolt 2 device into my new Thunderbolt Mac Studio?

I have a M1 Mac mini and an M2 Mac mini...can I share files between the two using Th.3/Th.4 cable? Or is it only for a display cable? Also....can I use Th. 3 on both ends...or Th.4 on both ends. Or must it be one cable with both 3 & 4 on it.?

lol i recently got an enclosure for my m1 macs and holy hell the naming and varied performance is so messed up. i got lucky and got a cheap enclosure and nvme that gets about 2k mbps read and write but i can see how it would be easy to end up with less than 500 mbps. the problem is apple doesnt support the newest and fastest usb speeds and since m1 has tb4 you would assume it does. they need to fix the naming system so that people dont waste their money on slow nvme enclosures. i cant help but think apple does stuff like this to encourage people to pay for their expensive internal ssds to get full performance.

Hello great video ❤ I have QQ I was considering buying Mac Book Pro 14 will it work with Universal Apollo twin? I am worried that my sound card Apollo twin works with thunderbolt 3 but it won’t run with the new thunderbolt 4 cable. Please help me if you know something

Trick to sell more PC, users upgrade new PC etc... :) Old trick.

Nice comments all round

⚠️ Thunderbolt 4 is a must have for those of us who will be streaming dozens of audio tracks and MIDI tracks simultaneously. I typically reach 40 to 60 tracks within the first couple hours of production. This is extremely important for streaming massive sound libraries from your external SSD to run DAW. (Digital audio workstation) such as Apple’s Logic Pro X working in tandem with East West Opus Diamond sound library, which is a 994 gig sound library.

No mention if a thunderbolt three SSD will work on Thunderbolt four properly as it’s real hard right now to find a wide variety a thunderbolt four supported SSD. You might want to make another video that addresses this highly important issue.

Thanks in advance! 🥸

So I have a question for you: the MacBook Pro 13 only has 2 Thunderbolt 4 ports. Nothing else, no USB, no HDMI, no nothing. I am told by Apple that I cannot connect two external monitors to this MacBook. If I understand you correctly, their info isn’t accurate and I should be able to connect two external monitors on each Thunderbolt 4 port? Or use a docking station to do so? Either way, I COULD connect two external monitors, right?

i have a usb c hub, can i use it on tb 3/4?

Then you have the new usb-c plug spec to think of. For example, usb-c was limited to 100W power delivery, now apple adopted the new 2.1 plug to make the 140W PSU that ships with the 16” MBP possible.

I do not care as long as the cable is fitting my Mac.

Another gimmick from apple to steal your money. Usbc 4.0 delivers already 40GB per second and its patent free. USCc 4.0 can support 8K display easy and any company can use it for free. In contrast, Anybody who makes thunderbolt cable, or device has to pay royalty to Apple. This is the reason Iphone 13 still uses lightning. Asshole~!

I have looked on-line and you can’t find any Thunderbolt 4 docks in stock anywhere that have all the multiple ports.. they are all sold out.

You really missed the mark on explaining the primary difference betweenTB3 and TB4. For  users, the two are basically interchangeable (other than the minor spec diffs) because  decided to implement the full TB3 spec in all of its hardware where TB was present. BUT FOR WINDOWS USERS ... the differences are huge. in the era of TB3, windows systems were all over the place. Some PCs that claimed to support TB3 didnt even have the hardware on board (so called TB3-compatible systems). Other windows systems might have included some TB3 features, but with many others missing. Net net, windows machines claiming TB3 might provide some but not all of the TB3 features. With TB4 that changes completely. If a windows system claims TB4 support, by def it must do everything and include all hw. That is the REAL difference between TB3 and TB4. Everything else is a bonus to  users.

Love your videos ‼️

Thanks for the clarification.

Good video but a flowchart or graphics presentation would be better.

NO deal for me

Since Apple has ThunderBolt 4 controllers built into M series SOC processors you would think they would be able to build them into A series SOC processors. If so the Apple iPhone 15 could have a ThunderBolt 4 port on it with data transfer rate of 40 Gbits.

That ThunderBolt 4 port would be backwards compatible with all previous ThunderBolt, and USB devices.

Why thunderbolt 5 isn’t come out now ?

Always wondered this…