• FierySpectre@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    One of those cables that don’t work is rated for like 120W, with gigabit transfer speed… But it refuses to transmit display… Like bruh

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      10 days ago

      That sounds like a dedicated charging cable. So yeah, they will (if at all) only transfer data slowly and not support any extras features like displayport.

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          10 days ago

          No USB cable has “gigabit speed”. It probably has 480 Mbps (USB 2.0 standard).

          Maybe he meant a 5 Gbps Gen1 cable. That would be “gigabit speed” but still rather slow by today’s standards and won’t support DP. They are pretty cheap these days, so wouldn’t be suprising to see left over stocks being sold as charging cables.

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            10 days ago

            No USB cable has “gigabit speed”. It probably has 480 Mbps (USB 2.0 standard).

            What? I’m either misunderstanding you or this statement isn’t correct. Having USB cables that can move data at gigabit rates has been common for quite some years.

            Here’s the latest stuff:

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB4

            Bitrate

            20 Gbit/s
            40 Gbit/s
            80 Gbit/s
            120/40 Gbit/s asymmetric

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              10 days ago

              What? I’m either misunderstanding you or this statement isn’t correct

              I meant that no USB standard actually has exactly 1 Gbit/s. I even mention that next one if 5Gbit/s. Just a misunderstanding I think.