Dell TB16 Thunderbolt dock with DL-165 adapter

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Originally Posted by AlbanRampon

The TB16 is using proprietary hardware and software... TB stands for Thunderbolt which requires an Intel Thunderbolt controller in the host. There's not many non-proprietary active graphics adapters in electronics.

Wrong. Thunderbolt 3 uses DisplayPort Alternate Mode via USB-C, i.e. native DisplayPort.

This does not require any additional software other than the native graphics driver.

Besides, it also works on Linux, which can not necessarily be said about DisplayLink in all cicrumstances.

Also, the adapters being mentioned are simply passive adapters to simply convert the HDMI/DisplayPort/Mini DisplayPort plug on the dock side to a DVI-D plug on the monitor side.

Originally Posted by AlbanRampon

He already has the adapter. I don't see why you're suggesting he spends more money without looking into the problem first.

Because DisplayLink does not offer native graphics performance any only sends a compressed image, whereas native DisplayPort offers the full graphics performance and uncompressed frames, i.e. it's simply better.