with that card, you connect 1 or 2 short DisplayPort to Mini-DisplayPort cables from your GPU to the Titan Ridge card, and then you connect your display(s) to the thunderbolt card. My best guess is the Titan Ridge card has the better chance of supporting the full range of thunderbolt features (besides just DisplayPort passthrough) in the future. GIGABYTE (Alpine Ridge Thunderbolt 3 PCIe Card Components Other GC-Alpine Ridge 4.1 out of 5 stars 367 ASUS ThunderboltEX 4 with Intel Thunderbolt Controller, 2 USB Type-C Ports, up to 40Gb/s bi-Directional Bandwidth, DisplayPort 1.4 Support, up to 100W Quick Charge. I would suggest asking in that Macrumors thread for a definitive answer. USB-C and Thunderbolt using the same connector is confusing since you can use it for just USB (Like USB 3.1 add-in cards with Type-C jacks), or it can carry DisplayPort and PCIe as well, in which case it is thunderbolt.Īs /u/theitsage mentioned, if ALL you want to do is get a thunderbolt display connected, and don't want to use any other thunderbolt devices, then the Gigabyte thunderbolt card would do. It really isn't anything more than USB 3 on a different connector. Got an older Mac with USB 2.0 ports, no PCIe slots, and a Thunderbolt or Thunderbolt 2 port The Allegro is a great way to add four USB-A 5Gbps ports for use in Sonnet’s Thunderbolt 2 and Thunderbolt 3 to PCIe card expansion systems, including Echo Express and xMac desktop and rackmount systems.

Please note you may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. Echo Express III-D Thunderbolt 3 HDX Edition - 3-Slot PCIe Card Expansion System - Thunderbolt 3 to PCI Express 3.0 Slot. A USB-C card doesn't do DisplayPort passthrough, nor does it support PCIe devices over thunderbolt. Thunderbolt 3 PCIe Card Hello, welcome to ASUS Republic of Gamers Official Forum.

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