Thunderbolt 5 and Thunderbolt 4 laptops – the complete list

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109 Comments

1. ytee

   March 10, 2019 at 11:28 am

   I believe lenovo yoga s730 should be on the list too?

   Reply
2. rdzah

   March 12, 2019 at 9:37 pm

   Awesome list!
   2 things:
   – Gigabyte Aero 15 X and 15 Y have the Max-Q variant of nvidia RTX cards
   – MSI GT63 Titan does _not_ have a Thunderbolt port

   Thus afaik at this point in time there does not yet exist a 15" laptop with both a TB port _and_ an nvidia RTX 2080 full version (non-Max-Q) :-(

   Reply
3. John

   March 13, 2019 at 2:37 am

   Hi! Something I found out the hard way recently, is that not all Thunderbolt 3 laptops support charging/power by TB3. It would be very useful if this list included which laptops support this part of TB3. You did state that, "TB3 can also be used for charging your device, as long as it doesn’t require more than 100 W of power. So good-bye dedicated charging cables." however, this is not necessarily true. Even though it only supports 100 watts of power (and usually only 85 is supplied to charge/power a laptop), it SHOULD still be able to power and charge (albeit at a slower rate) laptops that have larger power supplies that exceed 100 watts…which are many of them. What I'm saying is that this is not a hard and fast rule and it's up to the manufacture if they want to disable this feature or not. For example; I bought (this was my hard lesson) a dell laptop last year that comes with a 180 watt power brick. I think nothing of this because I know that 180 watts is only required when it's REALLY churning away and even then, it's not utilizing 180 watts because it probably leaves headroom so that the battery will still charge slowly. In other words, worst case scenario; the battery would drain really slow at full crank…IF they even allowed charging via TB3 which, unfortunately they don't.

   So at the end of the day, you can't tell simply by the power brick, you have to actually look for support fromt the manufacturer for specific models. It's asking a lot, and I by no means expect this (it's simply a suggestion/request) but it would be very helpful to a lot of people as this is a confusing and in many cases, unintentionally misleading aspect of Thunderbolt 3.

   Thanks for your time!

   Reply
   • Andrei Girbea

     March 29, 2019 at 1:19 pm

     Hi, thanks for the suggetion, I'm going to gradually add this info to the lists.

     Reply
   • Gary Emery

     June 16, 2021 at 5:19 pm

     Hi. I really found this post helpful. With a broken computer, I'm looking for a 15.6 inch or close laptop with a gd screen, and TB 4 plus spare ports. A laptop that can multitask, and potentially do some gaming with poss an external GPU. But gaming's not my priority. Fast file transfer speeds and a good balanced computer wld be great! Cheers for forum comments.. very helpful

     Reply
4. Will

   March 18, 2019 at 5:11 pm

   Hi, the Lenovo Legion Y530 is in this list but your own review from this site says it's not a thunderbolt 3 port. so which is correct? thanks

   Reply
   • Andrei Girbea

     March 25, 2019 at 11:15 am

     the Y530 is not in the list. The Y730 on the other hand is, which gets a Tb3 port

     Reply
   • Karl the Pagan

     March 31, 2019 at 9:23 pm

     According to the Lenovo PM at PAX East 2019 the Y730 15" has 1×2 TB3 port. The Y730 17" has a 1×4 TB3 port.

     Reply
     • Andrei Girbea

       April 1, 2019 at 11:49 am

       thanks, updated.
5. Harry Taynor

   March 25, 2019 at 7:02 pm

   I recently got a Dell g5 15. Which has a tb3 port.

   Reply
6. Eddie

   March 26, 2019 at 10:41 am

   I am curious. When was the Samsung Notebook 9 Pro 13.3" model added? I ask because the 2017-2018 models do NOT have TB3. The 2019 model which is for sale now but hasn't shipped yet, has 2 x4 TB3 ports and 1 type c.

   Reply
   • Andrei Girbea

     March 29, 2019 at 3:32 pm

     That was supposed to be the new Notebook 9 Pen series, updated

     Reply
7. Amiel

   March 29, 2019 at 1:23 pm

   Can you look into Asus Zephyrus M GM501 please?

   Reply
   • Eddie

     March 30, 2019 at 4:33 am

     Who updates this? It's missing the 2019 Samsung Notebook 9 Pro 13

     Reply
     • Mike N

       December 12, 2019 at 7:52 pm

       Do you have that laptop? I do and I regret it
     • Alejandro

       May 29, 2020 at 11:18 am

       why? what's the problem?
8. Don

   April 30, 2019 at 3:39 pm

   The Razer Blade Pro now comes with up to a 9th gen H cpu and RTX 2080 max q

   Reply
9. Aidan Lindon

   June 2, 2019 at 2:15 am

   Where are the Ryzen laptops?

   Reply
   • Tom

     July 17, 2019 at 12:59 pm

     Thunderbolt is a intel product, usb 4 is basically thunderbolt 3 under the hood, when that comes out we'll get on AMD machines

     Reply
     • DAVID N

       September 7, 2019 at 4:04 pm

       TB3 40 GBPS is already on AMD motherboards, you just need to know where to look.
     • xpclient

       January 22, 2020 at 9:43 pm

       Not in laptops/mobile platform. Only in AMD desktop motherboard where you can just add a PCIe Thunderbolt 3 card.
     • kay chan

       April 17, 2020 at 11:24 am

       i am also waiting for ryzen 4000 series laptop with thunderbolt 3. hoping maybe razer or asus will make one soon. Rog G14 looks very promising.
     • Andrei Girbea

       April 17, 2020 at 12:01 pm

       Not gonna happen anytime soon
10. Ralf

    June 13, 2019 at 7:46 am

    Can you add an update history? It would be nice to know the latest members to this list. Awsome work!

    Reply
11. Peter

    June 23, 2019 at 7:46 pm

    Hi, I have a HP ZBook 17 with two TB3 connectors. How can I find out how many TB3 links are in? Do You have some manual about that?
    Thank You.

    Reply
    • Potato

      November 6, 2019 at 12:47 am

      I was incorrect actually, the envy does not have two thunderbolt ports. It seems hp has a very similar icon to tb3 for a different function

      Reply
12. Faris

    November 10, 2019 at 5:31 pm

    Acer Switch 7 is missing here. It's a 13.5" Windows tablet which also features Thunderbolt 3 port.

    Reply
13. Nick

    December 11, 2019 at 6:16 pm

    Apparently the 2019 Dell Inspiron 7000 2-in-1 has Thunderbolt 3

    Reply
    • Stephan

      September 30, 2020 at 11:34 pm

      yup

      Reply
14. Morin

    January 11, 2020 at 11:29 pm

    Bonjour, il faudrait ajouter le MSI prestige 15

    Reply
15. Daniel

    February 17, 2020 at 4:20 am

    HP elitebook 840 G5 shown in list is only X2 not x4. I bought one based off this list and finding out now it's incorrect..

    Reply
    • Andrei Girbea

      February 17, 2020 at 1:20 pm

      Hi Daniel. I'm sry for the error, we're doing our best to keep this updated and correct, but errors can still slip in.

      Reply
16. think

    March 31, 2020 at 12:07 pm

    Can you also add those https://www.dell.com/support/article/en-us/qna44089/thunderbolt-3-40gbps-data-transfer-rate?lang=en ?

    Reply
17. MasutaMaestro

    June 9, 2020 at 5:09 am

    Alongside their Swift cousins, the latest Acer Spin 3 and Acer Spin 5 have TB3 as well

    Reply
18. rajeev

    June 25, 2020 at 12:31 am

    Hello,

    I have hellios 500 intel 7th gen gtx 1070, 2 thunderbolt port c ( gen 2 3.1 type c =only 10gbps transfer rate )

    can you confirm please if this will work for a egpu dock station ? I dout as all the mention above laptop have same thing but no original thunderbolt port c = 40 gbps speed.

    Please clear the dout!

    Thanks.

    Reply
    • Andrei Girbea

      June 25, 2020 at 10:32 am

      As far as I remember, there's a Thunderbolt 3 port on that laptop and should work with an eGPU. There's also a secondary USB-C gen1 port.

      Reply
      • Rajeev

        June 25, 2020 at 10:41 am

        As per manual it says Thunderbolt 3 2 ports but gen 2 3.1 c port only which has a power of 10gbps only and a 5 v 3 amp power out put ! I am so confused as no one tested the port speed yet and no reviews but as per manual it is the info ! Can u do search and update me I am also trying to find !
      • Rajeev

        June 26, 2020 at 10:44 am

        Hello andrei,

        Helios 500 intel

        After doing lots of research I found that one port is thunderbolt port is gen 2 3.1 connection type and speed 5 gbps and next one is thunderbolt 3 original port near to Ethernet jack ! But they put thunderbolt symbol on both ports by mistake ! That port had 40gbps speed ! I hope I am correct ! Just confirm me if I am correct ! Thanks 🙏
      • Andrei Girbea

        June 26, 2020 at 11:35 am

        That's what I said as well, one of the ports is TB3 PCIe x4, and the other is just an USB-C gen1
19. Staffan Sjöberg

    July 19, 2020 at 11:34 am

    Thunderbolt gives the advantage to connect and start the laptop from a docking station. This means that the laptop can be folded and put away while using your screen on the desk and a separate keyboard and mouse at your office or home.

    Reply
    • Kingsman784

      August 22, 2020 at 9:02 pm

      The Lenovo C640 has the TB3 symbol next to the USB-C port but the spec sheet says that it’s just a regular USB-C laptop. Does anybody know for sure whether or not it has Thunderbolt 3?
      Here’s the link: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/yoga/yoga-c-series/Yoga-C640/p/88YGC601300
      Thanks!

      Reply
20. xpclient

    January 15, 2021 at 2:48 am

    Add the Dell Latitude 5510 and 5511: https://www.dell.com/en-in/work/shop/business-laptop-notebook-computers/new-latitude-15-5510-laptop/spd/latitude-15-5510-laptop/al5510?view=configurations&configurationid=2b68b851-6b20-46b6-8875-76ad6094868c

    Reply
21. xpclient

    January 20, 2021 at 10:36 am

    The Dell Latitude 5510 and 5511 also have Thunderbolt but only 1 x2 (20 Gbps) and only in certain configurations (10300H or 10310U CPUs e.g.)

    HP ZBook Fury 15 G7 has 2 x4 (40 Gbps) Thunderbolt 3 ports.

    Reply
22. Jarvis

    March 27, 2022 at 7:52 am

    Is there an updated article on this? I am also looking for TB3/TB4 laptops.

    Reply
    • Andrei Girbea

      March 28, 2022 at 11:26 am

      Not really. I'll have an update here in due time, but most 11th and 12th gen Intel laptops support Thunderbolt 4 these days

      Reply
23. Miguel

    August 23, 2022 at 3:00 pm

    Where can i find an updatet list for late 2022

    Reply
    • Andrei Girbea

      August 24, 2022 at 7:21 am

      Most recent Intel laptop support THunderbolt 4, so there's no real reason for a follow-up update

      Reply
24. Mia

    September 26, 2024 at 10:44 am

    Will there be any more updates now?

    Reply
    • Andrei Girbea

      September 30, 2024 at 6:39 pm

      Most new Intel laptops offer at least one TB4 port

      Reply
      • John

        July 22, 2025 at 8:19 pm

        Will there be updates for TB5?
      • Andrei Girbea

        July 23, 2025 at 8:03 am

        Yes, I'm working on an update.
25. Santo

    July 8, 2025 at 11:22 pm

    Would like to see a new list for thunderbolt 5 laptops

    Reply
26. NikoB

    July 26, 2025 at 2:02 pm

    The main difference between TB3 and TB4 is support for HDR10/DV data transmission, as TB3 does not support Display Port 1.4+.

    TB supports 2x8K@60 (only 24-bit color, 30-36 bit requires more bandwidth, which is important for people working professionally with color) in the extended 120Gbps mode (traffic tunneling is not compatible with the usual DP Alt Mode – this is an extremely important difference, since, for example, monitor models until 2025 did not have support for HDMI 2.1 FRL6 (the maximum bitrate was 24Gbps) and therefore 4k@120Hz+ mode with HDR10 were also supported only in TB4 traffic tunneling mode with a bandwidth of up to 40Gbps – owners of HDMI 2.1 ports with FRL6, but without TB4 ports are deprived of the opportunity to use such monitors in maximum modes without lossy compression – DSC). In approximately the same way, you need to carefully evaluate 2025+ monitors – if they do not declare support for traffic tunneling mode in Alt Mode 120Gbps in one direction (40 in the other), then there will be no support for 2x8k@60Hz.

    It's time to update the TB5 models table with the new 18" Lenovo line – L9.

    Another important point about TB5 laptops is where the signal source is taken from – from igpu or from dgpu. Obviously, with dgpu this is only possible with the 5xxx NVidia line, and the solution with igpu will be very problematic in terms of performance, given the strong remaining of desktop Intel/AMD processors (except for the top HEDT lines for workstations at wild prices with 4-8 channel controllers) from the AMD Zen5 Halo mobile series with a 256-bit memory controller (although it has a flaw in read mode – there is only 128-bit mode in fact), with which you can hardly find laptops, but the Chinese are already selling a bunch of miniPCs in a 128GB configuration on trading platforms (and they take them mainly for working under neural networks, because there you can allocate VRAM 96GB from 128GB of RAM).

    And as I have written many times, HDMI 2.2 and DP2.1 (as well as TB5) are essentially pass-through standards for entering the world of 8k resolution. Until there is a new standard for at least 160-320Gbps, and with new optical cables by default (which dramatically reduces the prices of cheap mass cables and ensures their 100% reliability in transmitting such streams, and immediately guaranteed at distances of up to 50-100m) everything will stall. Obviously, 8k monitors are not suitable today for gaming in native mode (even 4k is questionable). These are purely working solutions with the highest possible ppi on diagonals up to 32" and ideal clear text for the eyes, the same graphics. This is exactly what the industry should strive for, which has been "dynamite" the demands of professionals for 10 years in this regard, despite the fact that discrete video chips with dedicated VRAM have been servicing such solutions for those same 10 years without any problems…

    Unfortunately, progress is not going as fast in this regard as we would like and as it could…

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    • Andrei Girbea

      July 29, 2025 at 9:39 am

      Thanks, appreciate your feedback!

      So far there's no TB5 via iGPU as far as I can tell. Perhaps with next-gen Intel hardware.

      Reply
      • NikoB

        July 31, 2025 at 12:28 pm

        In fact, igpu can work with TB5 Barlow Bridge from Intel and it can tunnel DP traffic from igpu Intel, because they officially support UHBR20 by aggregating DDI links.

        Zen5 Halo igpu also supports UHBR20 and the only question is whether it can provide aggregation of 3x40Gbps (3xUHBR10) in 120Gbps mode. As has long been known, AMD deliberately does not provide publicly available datasheets for its series (and even the description on their websites is incorrect, as I previously pointed out in the video decoder sections, which they finally corrected closer to May 2025 and not for all series)

        It is obvious that Intel can provide aggregation of 3xUHBR10 on its igpu. Since they officially have up to 4 DDI links.

        It's just that manufacturers, for some reason, do not make such solutions, although the opportunity exists – most likely they understand that with the low bandwidth of 128-bit RAM of mobile and desktop Intel processors, this makes little sense in terms of ideal operation of several screens simultaneously when using slow RAM instead of the ultra-fast VRAM of dgpu (it is up to 17 times faster, although according to "Amdahl's law" the bottleneck there is also regular RAM, when there is an intensive exchange of ram-vram). Everything will change when Intel catches up with AMD in the memory controller and offers a 256-bit controller in mass series, and in HEDT (we are not talking about processors for workstations at the price of a laptop with 5090, but about regular series) we would like a 512-bit memory controller, like in Apple M4 Max (although there are questions about its real performance there too). By the way, owners of NVidia cards of the 3-4-5 generations that use several monitors simultaneously via outputs with dgpu constantly complain about wild consumption in this mode, despite the fact that via igpu the same links in TB4 mode consume an order of magnitude less. This is another reason to abandon Nvidia's dpgu for these purposes, but the bandwidth of the RAM is extremely important, and only Zen5 Halo can offer a fairly high (albeit inferior in comparison with declarations of 256 bits) RAM bandwidth, which the lagging Intel cannot at the moment (although it now has a better process technology at TSMC than AMD).

        In general, everything again rests on the bandwidth of the RAM. This is the Achilles heel of x86. TB5 will become mainstream only after the appearance of mass processors and notebook SoCs with a 256-bit memory controller (without a flaw in the read mode, as in Zen5 Halo). And the dream of mass 8k@120Hz monitors (not to mention the successors of HDMI 2.2 and DP2.1) and higher in 30-36 bit color mode will come true when mass series of processors reach a throughput of at least 500 GB / s, which is now possible only in server chips with an HBM3 / 4 controller. That's why I wrote a comment earlier in another article that something really interesting in the consumer segment will be released no earlier than 2030. In the meantime, in general, there is technological stagnation from this perspective. I do not yet see official declarations on the transition to optics (which would be an excellent solution for TB5 + docking stations in terms of flexibility of installation by distances) and declarations of a mass transition to 256-bit controllers of both symbiotic companies in the x86 market. And there is a feeling (somewhere in the subconscious this thought has already deepened) that the reign of the x86 market on desktops and laptops is coming to an end…

        It will be extremely difficult for software developers who have previously bet on the x86 platform…

        Well, these are my thoughts on the introduction of new standards for now..

        p.s. and I still hope for the restoration of common sense in laptop manufacturers, which has long been lost with USB-C ports used for work from a power supply more and more often – when they finally start installing 2 TB4/5 ports symmetrically on the left and right (and now they also supply power in office models), so that it is convenient for right-handed and left-handed people. So far, such laptops seem to be made only by HP in rare models, apparently they have the most understanding designers. Lying on a bed or a sofa with an office laptop while running on a power supply (since all x86 are significantly slower in everything from a battery, and you don't have to think about charging all the time and you can save battery charge cycles, especially when replacing it with a new original one in most countries of the world is a real problem for reasonable money) while replacing a durable and comfortable round corner power plug on the side with USB-C sticking out on one side (in 99% of cases on the left side) is a completely stupid trend on the market (although Intel, when presenting TB4, recommended putting ports symmetrically on the left and right), although it is understandable that this is for the sake of saving the cost of motherboards for wiring lines symmetrically on both sides of the laptop. But they can make a USB-C power output at the back, but they don't do it on purpose, although there is always enough space there…

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