4 ms·
Thats poor.. It's just copper, why can't it be as fast as a PCIe slot..
by brcmthrowaway 7mo ago
Thats poor.. It's just copper, why can't it be as fast as a PCIe slot..
- wtallis 6mo agoThunderbolt is its own protocol, electrically incompatible with PCIe. Its purpose is to encapsulate data traffic from multiple other protocols (PCIe, DisplayPort, USB) and multiplex that over the same wires. It cannot function exactly like an external PCIe port because it's solving a bigger, more complicated problem.