Thunderbolt 5 doubles the pipe but not the lane to your GPU

The ASUS ROG XG Station 3 doubles Thunderbolt bandwidth to 80 Gbps, but the graphics card still rides the same PCIe 4.0 x4 tunnel as the last generation. Here is what that means for gaming laptops and for local LLM inference, which reads the link completely differently.

$ 2026.11.07 · 5 min read · #eGPU

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Thunderbolt 5 doubles the pipe but not the lane to your GPU

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