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• tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  But its DP implemented within USB, vs an actual DP. There’s a latency there which might matter for online realtime gaming

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  • otto@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The USB-C is just the connector. The cables are thunderbolt.

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    • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yeah but there are still signal processing steps required to tell both ends of the connector which pins to use to implement the DisplayPort protocol.

      • DP connector is direct from GPU → Screen.
      • DP through USB has to go through the USB bus on the machine → Screen.

      Let’s hope that bus is dedicated, and not overloaded with other USB tasks!

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      • otto@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Let’s hope that bus is dedicated

        It is. That’s always been one of the key features of thunderbolt. There’s no negotiation or latency involved.

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