How do I know if I will be able to daisy-chain monitors? (connect two monitors to 1 DisplayPort)

I am planning to use Surface Pro 2 with a dock station as my main computer and I would like to connect two external monitors to it, but the dock station only contains a single DisplayPort socket. However, I see that DisplayPort 1.2 specification, approved in 2009, allows for daisy-chaining monitors through its Multi-Stream Transport feature.

How do I tell if I will be able to use two monitors in daisy-chain mode with my computer?


Surface Pro 2 ships with either i5-4200U or i5-4300U CPU, both Haswell chips with HD Graphics 4400 GPU. According to Intel, these chips have 4th generation graphics (HD Graphics 4200 and up is 4th, 4000 and 2500 is 3rd) and thus support DisplayPort 1.2.

Apart from graphics adapter support, you will need compatible monitors. These monitors should be DisplayPort 1.2 compatible and feature two DisplayPorts (for input and output). According to this page from DisplayPort.org (click 'DP Displays Multi-Stream' then 'Search') there are currently seven such models:

  • Lenovo LT2934z
  • Asus PA279Q
  • Dell U2413
  • Dell U2414H
  • Dell U2713H
  • Dell U2913WM
  • Dell U3014

Or, you could use DisplayPort 1.2 MST hub like this one: not quite daisy-chain, but a solution to connect up to 3 DisplayPort monitors to a single DP 1.2 MST output. The monitors can be regular old-school DP 1.0, according to this answer.