I have a 27" Apple Thunderbolt Display with a Mini Display Port cable and a Apple Mac Pro 2010 with a Nvidia GTX 980 4GB graphic card installed, with 1xDual Link DVI-I, 1x HDMI 2.0, 3xDisplayPort 1.2 connections. What kind of adapter do I have to buy to connect them together?
And no I don't want to buy a new monitor or use another graphic card. 🙂
Mac Pro, 2010
A genuine ThunderBolt display (whose cable-end will be marked with the ThunderBolt symbol) can ONLY be supported by a a computer that left the factory with a ThunderBolt port.
There are no adapters or converters, and probably never will be. You can not use that display with a Silver Tower Mac Pro.
Yes I have a small “flash symbol” at the end of the MiniDisplayPort cable. So there’s no cable or adapter that I can use e.g. female Mini Display Port to male Display Port 1.2/DVI/HDMI that will work.
How come?
[Mini] DisplayPort is a subset of all the signals supposed by ThunderBolt. You can use that subset to drive an outbound [Mini] Displayport display, but not the reverse.
Some of the politics of it is that ThunderBolt is so complex it cannot be implemented without custom chips. Intel controls both the chips and the certification of what is genuine ThunderBolt, and have said publicly they are not interested in making chips for anything that does not support the WHOLE standard, both data and display signals, and nothing less.
So no adapters or converters, because you cannot buy the chips to do it, and you will not be able to get it certified even if you tried.
[mini] DisplayPort and [Full size] DisplayPort are electrically equivalent, just a different size, and have no active components, so they work in either direction.
Your beef is with ThunderBolt to [Mini] Display port, which is a ONE-WAY extraction/Subset, and does not work the other direction at all.
Standards reminds me of VHS and Betamax grrr so why do they sell minidisplayport cables to DisplayPort then if it’s not working?
Who is 'they'? MiniDP>DP have a number of uses, just not with the Apple Thunderbolt Display.
27" Apple Thunderbolt Display to Mac Pro 2010
