UGREEN's Thunderbolt 5 Dock Costs Exactly What Its Thunderbolt 4 Dock Costs — and Has Three Fewer Ports
Both UGREEN docks list at $299.99. The Thunderbolt 5 Revodok Maxidok triples the bandwidth to 120Gbps and drives dual 8K; the Thunderbolt 4 13-in-1 gives you three more ports and a fuller port mix. Neither gives you Ethernet faster than 1Gbps, which is the odd part.
Same price, different shape
UGREEN currently sells a Thunderbolt 5 dock and a Thunderbolt 4 dock at the same price. Not similar prices — the same one.
| Revodok Maxidok 10-in-1 (TB5) | 13-in-1 Thunderbolt 4 Dock | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $299.99 | $299.99 |
| Bandwidth | up to 120Gbps | 40Gbps |
| Laptop charging | up to 100W (140W system power) | up to 96W (180W adapter) |
| Displays | dual 8K (Windows) / dual 6K (macOS) | dual 4K@60Hz, or single 8K@30Hz |
| Ports | 10 | 13 |
| Port mix | TB5, DP 2.1, USB-A, SD/TF, GbE | 3× TB4, 3× USB-A 5Gbps, 2× USB-C 10Gbps (one 20W PD), dual SD/TF 3.0, GbE, 3.5mm, DP 1.4 |
| Ethernet | Gigabit | Gigabit |
Read the last row before the first one.
Both docks, in 2026, at $299.99, terminate in a 1Gbps Ethernet port. The Thunderbolt 5 unit moves data across its bus at up to 120 gigabits per second and then hands your network 1. That is not a UGREEN failing specifically — it is close to universal in the dock category — but it is the clearest illustration available that dock bandwidth and useful bandwidth are different quantities. If your reason for buying a dock is network speed, neither of these changes anything, and a $40 2.5GbE adapter will do more for you than $300 of Thunderbolt.
What Thunderbolt 5 actually gives you
The generational jump is real where it applies.
Thunderbolt 4 tops out at 40Gbps. Thunderbolt 5 runs 80Gbps bidirectionally, with a Bandwidth Boost mode that reallocates downstream capacity to reach 120Gbps in one direction — the mode UGREEN quotes in its headline figure. Under the hood, Thunderbolt 5 incorporates USB4 v2, DisplayPort 2.1 and PCIe Gen 4, and adopts USB-PD 3.1 Extended Power Range scaling to 240W where Thunderbolt 4’s spec stopped at 100W.
Bandwidth Boost is worth understanding rather than just quoting. The 120Gbps is not extra capacity conjured from nowhere; it is the bidirectional budget rebalanced so more of it flows one way. That is exactly right for driving multiple 8K displays or pulling a huge file off fast storage, and irrelevant to a workload that reads and writes simultaneously.
Which brings the decision into focus. Thunderbolt 5 pays off if you are:
- driving dual 8K, or high-refresh 4K panels
- moving very large files off NVMe storage that can actually saturate the link
- planning to keep the dock across two or three laptop generations
It does nothing measurable if your setup is two 4K monitors at 60Hz, a keyboard, a webcam and an SSD. That fits inside 40Gbps with headroom.
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The port count is the real trade
At identical prices, the Thunderbolt 4 dock is the more useful object for most desks, and it is not close.
Thirteen ports against ten, and the mix is better balanced: three Thunderbolt 4 ports for downstream devices, three USB-A at 5Gbps for the peripherals that never went USB-C, two USB-C at 10Gbps with 20W PD on one of them, a dual SD/TF 3.0 reader, DisplayPort 1.4 as a native video out, and a 3.5mm jack — the port that quietly matters if you use wired headphones at a desk and do not want a dongle.
The Thunderbolt 5 dock’s ten ports cover Thunderbolt 5, DP 2.1, USB-A, SD/TF and Gigabit Ethernet. It is a leaner arrangement built around bandwidth rather than breadth.
So the honest framing at $299.99 each is: do you want more lanes, or wider lanes? Photographers and video editors pulling 8K footage want wider. Someone consolidating a desk full of accessories wants more.
The macOS asterisk
UGREEN publishes dual 8K on Windows, dual 6K on macOS for the same Thunderbolt 5 hardware.
That difference is set by the host, not the dock. Display output limits on Apple Silicon are a function of the chip’s display engine — base-tier M-series chips have historically driven fewer external displays than Pro and Max variants, regardless of what the dock in between can carry. No dock raises that ceiling, and any dock that appears to is using DisplayLink software compression, which is a different technology with its own trade-offs in latency and CPU load.
If you are a Mac user, check your specific chip’s external display limit before buying either dock. It is the constraint most likely to make a $299.99 purchase disappointing, and it has nothing to do with Thunderbolt.
Charging: neither one fully feeds a 16-inch MacBook Pro
The Thunderbolt 5 Maxidok publishes 140W system power with up to 100W to the laptop. The Thunderbolt 4 13-in-1 uses a 180W adapter supplying up to 96W PD.
Both are ample for a MacBook Air, a 14-inch MacBook Pro under normal load, and essentially every Windows ultrabook. Neither reaches the 140W a 16-inch MacBook Pro accepts. In practice that machine will still charge from either dock — just slower under load, and potentially not at all faster than it discharges during sustained heavy work.
If a one-cable desk for a 16-inch Pro is the goal, accept that the dock is a data-and-video solution and keep the Apple brick nearby for heavy days, or budget for a dock in a higher power class.
Check the UGREEN 13-in-1 Thunderbolt 4 dock on Amazon
What to buy at what budget
Under $50, one laptop, one monitor. Revodok Pro 7-in-1 USB-C hub with 4K DisplayPort, $40.99, or the 6-in-1 at $29.99. No Thunderbolt, no dock power supply, no $300.
Three monitors without Thunderbolt. UGREEN USB-C docking station for 3× 4K monitors with 10Gbps and 100W charging, $159.99. Check your machine’s display limits first — this is where Mac users get caught.
Consolidating a busy desk. The 13-in-1 Thunderbolt 4 dock at $299.99. More ports, better mix, mature platform.
8K displays or very large media files. Revodok Maxidok 10-in-1 Thunderbolt 5 at $299.99, or the Revodok Max 13-in-1 Thunderbolt 5 at $299.98 if you want the bandwidth without giving up port count.
Storage plus dock in one box. Revodok Maxidok 17-in-1 Thunderbolt 5 with 8TB at $499.99. Compare that against the dock plus a separate NVMe enclosure before committing — the integrated version is convenient and not upgradeable.
Caveats
Prices are UGREEN US store prices captured on 22 August 2026 and change frequently, particularly on docks, which discount hard around sales events.
Bandwidth figures are bus specifications, not achievable file-transfer rates. Real throughput depends on the drive, the host controller and what else shares the link — a 120Gbps bus attached to a SATA SSD delivers SATA speeds.
Display support figures are UGREEN-published for specific host platforms. Your laptop’s chip, GPU and driver stack set the actual limit, and on Apple Silicon that limit is frequently lower than the dock’s rating. Verify against your exact machine, not against the dock’s box.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Q: Is Thunderbolt 5 worth it if I just use two monitors and an external drive?
- A: Usually not. Two 4K monitors and a 10Gbps SSD fit inside Thunderbolt 4's 40Gbps with room left over. Thunderbolt 5 earns its money on dual 8K, high-refresh 4K, or moving very large files off fast NVMe storage. At UGREEN's pricing the two docks cost the same, so the question is which port mix you want, not which is faster.
- Q: Why does the Thunderbolt 5 dock show dual 8K on Windows but only dual 6K on macOS?
- A: Display limits on docks are set by the host platform's display engine and driver stack, not by the dock. UGREEN publishes dual 8K on Windows and dual 6K on macOS for the same hardware. Apple Silicon Macs also have per-chip limits on how many external displays they drive at all, which no dock can raise.
- Q: Can I plug a Thunderbolt 4 laptop into a Thunderbolt 5 dock?
- A: Yes. Thunderbolt 5 is backward compatible with Thunderbolt 4, Thunderbolt 3 and USB4. You get Thunderbolt 4 behaviour — 40Gbps and that generation's display limits — because the slower end of the link sets the ceiling. Buying a Thunderbolt 5 dock for a Thunderbolt 4 laptop is future-proofing, not a speed upgrade.
- Q: How much can these docks charge my laptop?
- A: UGREEN publishes up to 100W laptop charging on the Thunderbolt 5 Maxidok and up to 96W on the Thunderbolt 4 13-in-1, which uses a 180W adapter. Neither reaches the 140W a 16-inch MacBook Pro can accept, so that machine will charge more slowly from either dock than from its own brick.
- Q: Do I need a special cable for Thunderbolt 5?
- A: Yes, for full speed. Thunderbolt 5 runs at 80Gbps bidirectionally with a 120Gbps Bandwidth Boost mode, and needs a certified Thunderbolt 5 cable to sustain it. An old Thunderbolt 3 cable will connect and fall back. Thunderbolt 5 also adopts USB-PD 3.1 Extended Power Range up to 240W, which again requires an appropriately rated cable.