FINALLY! USB4 Worked On An AMD Laptop!!



When Gordon reviewed the Asus Zenbook S 13 OLED equipped with a Ryzen 7 6800U, he couldn’t get USB4 to work. After some back and forth with AMD to get a newer BIOS, he was able to get it a whole host of devices connected — including an eGPU! In Gordon’s words: “I S*** MYSELF WHEN USB4 WORKED!”

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00:00 – Intro
00:48 – History Of USB4
02:35 – How I Tested USB4
05:19 – eGPU On AMD At Last!
06:58 – An Actual USB4 Device
07:49 – Thunderbolt Certified Or Thunderbolt Compatible?
09:06 – Conclusion

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This Post Has 40 Comments

  1. maximo90019

    Great shout Gordon. Thanks for staying on this!!!

  2. John Mijo

    Nice to see more adoption of this standard and hopefully Intel can just release Thunderbolt 4 as an open standard for all.

    Being a Blazers fan I was really disappointed this season but gratz to the Warriors for getting another chip 😉

  3. Adam Richardson

    Great this is finally happening. But I can't say that the "less confusion" part of that 2019 headline is coming to pass – USB is a complete mess right now

  4. Chris Devine

    Is the thunderbolt controller integrated into the CPU? The eGPU performance on Intel laptops markedly improved when they started doing that.

  5. P.J

    But you are using all Thunderbolt 3 cables instead of USB4 cables which I thought this video was all about witht he new laptop? There is quite a speed difference between the now Thunderbolt 4 and USB4 if you check the specs, so I would have really like to see "the true nature of the Force" you promised 🙂

  6. Nick

    I didn't even know "usb4" was a thing… Lol… I live under a eRock and use ancient devices… (apparently)

  7. Prashant

    you should have tested non Asus eGPU since Jarrod's Tech have seen weird issues with non Asus eGPU on z13.

  8. Steven MacKay

    Finally?

    Why finally? It's such a new iteration of the usb port that I am just learning about it now… When did we get to USB 4? I thought we were still on that 3.2 mumbo jumbo.

  9. Paco Pal

    Excellent news! Do you know how many USB4 ports that Zenbook has? Would love to have one port connected to a dock and one to an eGPU for a home setup but not sure how much total PCIe bandwidth there is…

  10. Xellaz

    Finally! Been waiting for this on AMD! Now they only need to get this on portable gaming devices such as the Steam Deck so I can connect an eGPU on it! 😁

  11. Edo

    the egpu doesn't overheat the laptop, as using the integrated one would

  12. toddincabo

    WARRIORS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See ya next year as well folks! Gordon MVP

  13. Enoch Gitonga

    Intel have managed to sneak in Thunderbolt on to all platforms now. USB4 is really Thunderbolt 3. Likewise DisplayPort 2.0 is based on Thunderbolt 3. Moving forward Thunderbolt 3 will be the common baseline. For eGPU we really need double the bandwidth of USB4.

  14. TheSupremeGinge

    I still don't get the hype. I film and edit videos daily for work and I just don't get it. I've never heard of a camera that uses this. When I shoot an hour of video, it doesn't take that long to import using usb 3. Sure in theory i'd love this faster stuff but I just don't care. Even the eGPU stuff, that's for like .01% of users. Even the Canon EOS R7 that i just ordered is only a USBC. And I've seen some of these thunderbolt docks, those things cost as much as a cheep computer.

  15. Rob Roy

    Well played Golden State USB4 times

  16. Maxxwellwalt

    just thinking…

    Surface pro 10, AMD zen 4, 5nm && USB4.
    Smartphones with USB4?? on Arm v9..🤔Is it even possible? and Why??

  17. Suryasis Mandal

    Thanks for bringing this update into our notice. This was preventing a lot of people from getting AMD laptops, mainly they're already invested in Thunderbolt eco system.
    By the way, is this Beta Bios available to general users for downloading from Asus or AMD?

  18. Clark S Ramos

    I have seen at least on instance of 'thunderbold' shorting out and making itself non-functional, having destroyed it's connectivity port.

  19. MarcasswellbMD

    Thank God for Window's Never thought I would say that.. LOL..

  20. Ian Lee

    Doesn't this make the proprietary Asus external pcie thing found on the AMD asus flex obsolete?

  21. Squatnes

    When will USB4 arrive on motherboards? Is it true that USB4 can actually power a laptop, in other words no need for that black rectangular power brick that's needed to charge a laptop?

  22. MarcasswellbMD

    I just bought a new Laptop 10 Months ago and just Built a New PC 2 Months ago… Although I don't have a use for 10Gig Type C other than charging my Iphone it's still nice to see the improvements.. I, like a lot of people just buy USB Type-A 3.0 thumb drives because they are cheap and fast enough.. I know Mac user's are Big on the whole Dongle thing.. People who edit and have multiple Monitor's love it too.. And I get get it.. But I am good with or without it really.. I must always come off as negative but a lot of people who weren't born into all of this.. Like this is a good thing don't get me wrong. I agree 1 to rule them all. But the change I am talking about is like windows 10 to 11 Like should I or not? I keep hearing with my Current ALL AMD Rig that I will get up to a 15% performance increase in older games if I go to 11???? To keep it simple I have a 5900X with a 6800XT SAM/PBO On 1 to 1 Fabric 1800 n Memory at 3600Mhz 16T.. So I am Tuned up pretty good but I am still using windows 10 on my Desktop.. But anyway does anyone know If 11 is really better for gaming???

  23. Clay Wheeler

    Things you might didn't know about Thunderbolt eGPU:

    It's never performing at 40 Gbps as advertised. It's running at 22 Gbps.
    Also, at the time of writing this comment, there's no Thunderbolt 4 eGPU docking in existence.

    So if you plug TB3 eGPU into TB4 port, it will still behave like TB3 exactly at 22 Gbps.

    On the other hand, M.2 NVMe slot can handle 32 Gbps if it's Gen 3, or 64 Gbps if it's Gen 4. So obviously eGPU will run a lot faster from M.2 slot.

  24. Danny King

    I had to buy an Intel dell XPS 13 instead of an AMD laptop cause I wanted thunderbolt so AMD finally having TB equivalent is awesome

  25. Yay, really glad to finally consider AMD laptops now without fan boys telling me "You don't need the bandwidth of Thunderbolt, USB3 is enough" when I say I need Thunderbolt. That was NEVER a good argument!

  26. Omlet2tube

    AMEN MY BROTHERS IN CHRIST, THE DAY HAS FINALLY ARRIVED.
    AMEN.
    THANK YOU GORDON.

  27. Chin Foh Hee

    I can see the future of GPU connect to PC vie USB external, no longer just a internal components.

  28. Mighty MOSA

    This is an amazing feature that AMD based laptops were missing. This is a great news. Should we thank Windows for this feature ?

  29. Mike Kent

    USB 4 already. Time for the old USB connector TO GO AWAY.

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