Hey Evan, thanks for responding! I did not get any email notification about your reply so I wasn’t able to see it earlier. However, this technology usually uses the laptop CPU to encode the display signals, which results in a slight delay, low output quality, and slows down your laptop. If it uses technology like DisplayLink, you can have many external monitors, as you like. It depends on the technology of the adapter you use. According to Microsoft, the USB-C port on Surface Book 2 does support daisy chain displays. However, the maximum display support remains the same.ģ. Yes, you can connect to a USB-C dock to 2 or 3 external monitors. It is the limit of 8th Gen Intel processors.Ģ. Option 1: 2 external monitors + 1 laptop display.So the total limit of display support for Surface Book 2 is 3, which can be configured as: The Discrete GPU inside all Surface Book models is only used for rending, while all display outputs are wired through the Integrated GPU. Thanks for your questions! I will try my best to answer based on my understanding and research.ġ. NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 discrete GPU w/6GB GDDR5ġ) What is the total limit of external monitors that this laptop and its GPU will support?Ģ) Can I use a USB-C docking station (with 2-3 HDMI and/or DisplayPort slots in it) to connect 2-3 external monitors to the laptop?ģ) What about connecting one external monitor to the USB-C docking station and daisy-chaining a 2nd external monitor off of the first (and so on and so forth)? Does the Surface Book 2’s USB-C slot support DisplayPort 1.2/1.4 with MST (MST allows for daisy chaining)?Ĥ) Can I use a USB-A to Dual HDMI with 4k adapter to plug into one of the laptop’s USB-A slots and connect external monitors through that? If so, can I use both the USB-A HDMI adapter AND the USB-C docking station to connect 4-6 monitors? I understand the Surface Book 2 has the following ports:ġx USB type-C 3.1 Gen 1 (Supports Power Delivery revision 3.0 and DisplayPort)Īnd the following dedicated GPU on the 15″ model:
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