You can easily find laptops and desktop PCs packing USB-C port certified for Thunderbolt 4 or USB 4. But now the next generation of the standard is picking up speed with Thunderbolt 5 (TB 5) and USB 4 ...

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A USB 4 cable will proudly say “40Gbps” in the logo, and a cable that supports the USB Power Delivery 3.1 specification will have either 60W or 240W displayed, to show which of the two maximum ...

Technically, there are some differences between USB4 and Thunderbolt, which device makers have to allow for. Signaling rates for USB devices are 10Gbps for Gen 2 USB devices and 20Gbps for Gen 3 ...

Using a Thunderbolt 4 cable, for example, won't give you the faster speeds promised by that standard if you plug it into a Thunderbolt 3 port or USB-C Gen 3.2 port, and connecting two Thunderbolt ...

The theoretical maximum speed of Thunderbolt 3 is 40 Gbps. That’s four times faster than the current USB-C standard. USB also uses a hub architecture, where Thunderbolt uses daisy-chaining.

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Thunderbolt 3 can transfer data up to 40 Gbps – you can get this speed with official Thunderbolt 3 cables or a good-quality USB-C cable that's less than about 1.6 feet in length.

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.

The primary difference between the two standards is speed. While USB-C supports up to 20 Gbps transfer speeds, Thunderbolt 3 doubles that, delivering up to 40 Gbps (via Thunderbolt Community).