As Thunderbolt 5 is build on top of USB 4 2.0 as well as DisplayPort 2.1 and PCI Express Gen 4, it will work with hardware using those technologies, and earlier versions too.

CalDigit recently came out with the TS5 Plus, which is designed to work with Apple's Thunderbolt 5 Macs. The TS5 Plus looks ...

Thunderbolt 5 has double the bandwidth capacity of Thunderbolt 4 (80 Gbps vs. 40 Gbps) right off the bat, and according to Intel it can actually reach transmission speeds of up to 120 Gbps if it ...

As Intel previously announced, Thunderbolt 5 will also support the DisplayPort 2.1 and PCI Express Gen 4 standards. The latter should be particularly helpful with external GPUs, which have been ...

TB1/2 uses a different connector (mini DisplayPort) from TB3/4/5 (USB-C). Adapters are easily available, but those adapters will only pass Thunderbolt data (and, I think, DisplayPort video). They will ...

For Thunderbolt 4, passive cables compatible with the standard should be able to run up to 2 meters in length (6.5 feet) and still run at 40Gbps.

That was until Thunderbolt 3 when it moved over to the 24-pin USB-C connector. Later, many other companies, such as Microsoft and HP, would also implement the interface in their devices.

USB4 brings cross-compatibility with Thunderbolt 3 and can support the same features/bandwidth as Thunderbolt 4 (and even Thunderbolt 5 in the future), but not all USB4 ports are the same (and 100 ...