I have a MacBook Pro with M4 Pro in ti that is Thunderbolt 5 and I have two Studio Displays. I dislike having to plug both monitors directly in and would like to get a Thunderbolt 5 hub that I can plug the monitors into then the hub into the MacBook. First will this work and second do you know of such a hub?
I would think that if the computer, dock, and cable all support Thunderbolt 5 … and the dock or hub has at least two downstream Thunderbolt ports … it should be theoretically possible.
But check with the dock or hub vendor. Other World Computing, SonnetTech, and CalDigit are three long-time suppliers of Thunderbolt gear for Mac users.
I would think that if the computer, dock, and cable all support Thunderbolt 5 … and the dock or hub has at least two downstream Thunderbolt ports … it should be theoretically possible.
But check with the dock or hub vendor. Other World Computing, SonnetTech, and CalDigit are three long-time suppliers of Thunderbolt gear for Mac users.
erikbock wrote:
These are the 2022 version so therefore don't support the daisy-chaining and I am not going to buy the new ones as there is no real need.
I did not suggest that you buy the new ones. The reason that I asked the question is that if you have one of the older ones, which use Thunderbolt 3, daisy-chaining is not supported, and would not work, and there's no point trying it.
The question comes down to a bandwidth issue. I have looked at the hubs you have mentioned and they talk about 4k monitors not 5k.
If the product descriptions are not clear enough, I would suggest checking with the dock / hub vendors directly.
It does seem, from notes on the OWC and SonnetTech sites, that macsOS currently supports a maximum of two displays per Thunderbolt 5 host port, even when talking about displays that do not require much bandwidth. To the extent that some of the TB5 dock descriptions talk about being able to drive two 8K monitors, that may bode well for the ability to drive two 5K @ 60 Hz monitors, provided that the dock or hub has two or more downstream TB5 ports.
I was just hoping someone here had already done the testing to see if it would work
You may need to wait for a while for somebody to do the testing, and then show up to post the results here.
That is in part because Thunderbolt 5 hubs/docks, and the new Thunderbolt-5-equipped Studio Display, are relatively new. Also in part because people tend to post threads here only when they run into problems – so there's no easy way of telling whether "no news" means "nobody tried the experiment" or "several tried the experiment successfully, and so they had no reason to come here."
Are these 27” Studio Displays introduced in 2022, that use Thunderbolt 3 and have no daisy-chaining ports?
Or their replacements, introduced this year, which have Thunderbolt 5 and a daisy-chaining port?
These are the 2022 version so therefore don't support the daisy-chaining and I am not going to buy the new ones as there is no real need. The question comes down to a bandwidth issue. I have looked at the hubs you have mentioned and they talk about 4k monitors not 5k. I was just hoping someone here had already done the testing to see if it would work.
Hi,
Try to connect Studio Displays with daisy chain connection which may be better than connecting via Hub.
These are the older versions that cannot be daisy chained
Thunderbolt 5 hub with 2 Studio Displays
