HDMI 2.0 has an Audio Return Channel (ARC), which means you only need a single HDMI cable to send audio from a TV to your soundbar or AV receiver. HDMI 2.1 also has an Enhanced Audio Return Channel (eARC), which allows you to send uncompressed, high-quality audio from your TV to your soundbar or AV receiver. JSAUX 1.2 DP Cable is available in gray and red color and four different lengths (1m, 2m, 3, and 4.5m). Moreover, it provides a plug-and-play functionality and altogether presents one of the best DisplayPort cables in the mainstream market and certainly a pretty good choice. Pros: Cable Matters 4K DisplayPort to DisplayPort Cable, Computer Monitor Cable 6 ft, 4K@60Hz, 2K@144Hz,... If, as VESA tell us, the UHBR aspect is basically optional, this means that in theory you could have a device certified as DP 2.1 when it doesn’t even include UHBR speeds of any sort! What if a manufacturer instead provided DSC like they have to as a baseline, and then added AdaptiveSync or LTTPRs, but didn’t bother with UHBR? That would still pass DP 2.1 criteria apparently, but you’d never actually get the new UHBR speeds. The device could still only support older HBR3 speeds from DP 1.4. To conclude, it offers quite a lot for its price – of course, if such high performance is what you need in the first place. Pros:

We’ve been alluding to it this whole time while discussing cable length and version, but one of the biggest defining features of a DisplayPort cable is its resolution capacity. Depending on the refresh rate used, cables have different max resolution capacities. DisplayPort (DP) is a royalty-free standard developed by VESA (the Video Electronics Standards Association). Since DisplayPort is a royalty-free specification, there are no royalty fees. But certified DisplayPort cables also cost more than non-certified ones. The scheme will certify UHBR cables under DP40 and DP80 tiers as explained below: DP40 Cables – UHBR10 link rate (10 Gbps x4 lanes = 40 Gbps)The most recent DisplayPort standard is 2.0, which was released in 2019. However, the most common standard is DisplayPort 1.4a, which can be found in many computer monitors these days. At this time VESA unfortunately do not have a clear list of required vs optional features for each iteration of DP although they tell us they are reviewing ways to make this clearer for consumers in the future. We’d like to see more detail on which other features are available and possible from DP 2.1. There is No New or Different DisplayPort Logo for DP 2.1 Devices You’ve all heard of DisplayPort before, a common video interface featured on nearly all graphics cards and monitors nowadays. DisplayPort (herein shortened to “DP” in many places) is a digital display interface developed by a consortium of PC and chip manufacturers and standardized by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA). It is primarily used to connect a video source to a display device such as a computer monitor and as well as video, it can carry audio, USB, and other forms of data. HDMI is a trademarked specification, which means manufacturers have to pay annual fees and royalties to use HDMI standards in their products. This additional cost is passed on to the consumer, which makes them more expensive.

Why it made the cut: This cable from Capshi was made with gamers in mind, and they seem to like it! iVANKY DisplayPort 1.4 Cable is an attractive-looking and highly durable DisplayPort cable that offers amazing performance and great overall quality worth the best DisplayPort cables out there.All these questions and more will be answered in this article. DisplayPort 2.1 Bandwidth and UHBR Explained If you’re looking for the best DisplayPort 1.4 cable – you’re going to be looking for a cable that can max out performance at 4K@144Hz – which is as you’re going to get before you’re forced to upgrade to DisplayPort 2.1. This cable we’ve selected is 6.6ft long – though there are options for 3.3ft, 10ft, and 15ft. Its maximum bandwidth is 32.4Gbps, which is more than enough to display 8K@60Hz. With support for HDR, FreeSync, and G-Sync, this cable has as much compatibility as you’re going to need. VESA refer to these new bandwidth capabilities as “Ultra-High Bit Rate” (UHBR), an advancement on High Bit Rate 3 (HBR3) from the current DP 1.4 standard. The DisplayPortmain linkis used for transmission of video and audio and this consists of a number of unidirectional serial data channels which operate concurrently, called“lanes”. A standard DisplayPort connection has 4 lanes, though some applications of DisplayPort implement more, such as theThunderbolt 3interface which implements up to 8 lanes of DisplayPort. VESA also announced that qualified VESA DisplayPort Authorized Test Centers (ATCs) are ready to begin testing and certification of UHBR end-products using approved test equipment and reference sink and source devices for interoperability testing. This means the test centres are good to go as manufacturers begin to product source devices, and displays with the new connection type.