Question Can this type C port support an external OLED?

[Fastfishy2]

I have an ASUS TUF A15 laptop (FA507 model - R7 7435HS & RTX 4060) and I plan on buying an Asus Zenscreen OLED to use with it.

This portable monitor is rated for 15w power draw and usually gets it's power via USB-C. I'd prefer this comes from the same USB-C that's providing it with display data from the laptop, so that I'm only having to deal with the one cable.

Now, there's a USB-C 3.2 Gen2 combo port on my laptop which supports Displayport and apparently also supports power delivery, although that's for charging the laptop - I doubt it applies for output from the laptop.

I don't know how to find out what this port can supply. Can it do a display signal and at least 15w all over one cable? How would I find out?

 

[Lutfij]

You can look up your laptop's SKU across the laptop's support site here;

ASUS TUF Gaming A15 (2023) | Laptops for Gaming | ASUS Bangladesh

2023 TUF Gaming A15 is equipped with Windows 11 Home, up to an AMD Ryzen™ 7940HS Series Processor and up to a NVIDIA® RTX™ 4060 Laptop GPU.

www.asus.com

but if you use this as a baseline;
https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/GamingNB/FA507NV/0409_E25276_FA507_FA707_V3_A.pdf?model=FA507NV
it states on page 26 and 27 that the port which supports power delivery will accept power input but not output power.

Moved thread from Motherboards section to Laptop Tech Support section.

 

[Fastfishy2]

You can look up your laptop's SKU across the laptop's support site here;

ASUS TUF Gaming A15 (2023) | Laptops for Gaming | ASUS Bangladesh

2023 TUF Gaming A15 is equipped with Windows 11 Home, up to an AMD Ryzen™ 7940HS Series Processor and up to a NVIDIA® RTX™ 4060 Laptop GPU.

www.asus.com

but if you use this as a baseline;
https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/GamingNB/FA507NV/0409_E25276_FA507_FA707_V3_A.pdf?model=FA507NV
it states on page 26 and 27 that the port which supports power delivery will accept power input but not output power.

Moved thread from Motherboards section to Laptop Tech Support section.

I can't see anything to that effect on those pages, only that the ethernet port does not support Ethernet Power. I did a bit more digging and USB Type C Power Delivery (which one of those is) is supposed to be two-way capability. Is this universally true?

 

[Fastfishy2]

It ended up working fine through that USB port.