Can Silicon Motion and DisplayLink-Based Docking Stations and Graphics Adapters Work Together?

Yes, Silicon Motion and DisplayLink-based products can work together and be used at the same time on the same computer. This requires that the software drivers for both types of products are installed on the host system.

How Silicon Motion and DisplayLink Products Work Together

Both Silicon Motion and DisplayLink utilize USB graphics technology that can coexist on a single operating system. To ensure proper functionality, users must download and install the specific drivers associated with each respective chipset.

While Windows limits are typically performance-based recommendations, the actual ceiling of adding external monitors is much higher.

Plugable recommends up to 8 external 4K displays via DisplayLink for productivity workloads, but more is theoretically possible for high-end computers.

With Silicon Motion Plugable recommends up to 4 displays using Silicon Motion based adapters. macOS often enforces a hard limit on the number of addressable displays.

Applicable To

USBC-7400H4

USBC-6950M

USBC-6950UE

USBC-6950U

UGA-4KHDMI

UGA-HDMI-2S

UGA-HDMI-S

USBC-768H4

USBC-MSTH2

UGA-DP-S

USB3-3900DHE

USB-VGA-165

UGA-4KDP

UGA-2KHDMI

UGA-165

USBC-MSTH3

UGA-3000