Apple recommends to connect the Thunderbolt Display to a Thunderbolt port on a Mac, and start daisy-chaining off that for “best performances”. A note of interest from this document is that Mini ...
The 2016 and 2017 MacBook Pro use what is called an Alpine Ridge controller. This controller runs the Thunderbolt 3 spec and allows for up to two DisplayPort 1.2 connections. The 2018 and later ...