A relative newcomer on the scene compared to HDMI and DisplayPort, USB-C is the latest physical plug shape devised for the Universal Serial Bus (USB) open standard. USB-C ports are much smaller ...

and whether our device uses a USB-C plug or a USB-C socket. Most importantly, though, it talks about the pin mapping. The DisplayPort altmode can have six pin mappings, five in case of a USB-C socket.

It features Thunderbolt 4 / USB-C ports with 140W of Power Delivery—enough to charge most laptops—along with HDMI, DisplayPort, and a secondary DisplayPort for daisy-chaining multiple monitors.