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by hop 5597 days ago
Well possibly, if it's in displayport mode using all four lanes in one direction, it can push that much bandwidth. How much bandwidth does a 27" apple display use?
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Well, let's see:

2560 x 1440 resolution at 24 bits per pixel = 88,473,600 bits

At 60Hz, that's 5,308,416,000 bits per second. So a little more than half the claimed 10Gbit bandwidth of Thunderbolt. I guess you're not going to be running two of them on the same port.

Depends on what you're using it for I guess. For my typical day coding / web browsing / etc. I'd rather run two at 16bit instead of one at 24bit.

If I was editing movies it'd be a different story.