MSI MEG Z790 ACE User Manual page 18

Thunderbolt 4
SATA Ports
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Intel® JHL8540 Thunderbolt™ 4 Controller
∙ 2x Thunderbolt™ 4 (USB-C) ports on the back panel
• Supports up to 40Gbps transfer rate with Thunderbolt
devices
• Supports up to 20Gbps transfer rate with USB4 devices
• Supports up to 10Gbps transfer rate with USB 3.2
devices
• Supports up to 5V/3A ,15W power charging
• Each port can daisy-chain up to three Thunderbolt 4
devices or five Thunderbolt 3 devices
• Supports up to 8K display (need to connect the
DisplayPort of the motherboard or discrete graphics
card to the Mini DisplayPort Input port on the back
panel)
∙ 6x SATA 6Gb/s ports
• SATA 5~8* (From Z790 chipset)
• SATA A1~A2 (From ASM1061)
* SATA7 will be unavailable when installing M.2 SATA SSD in the M2_5 slot.
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