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[–] damniticant@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A dedicated charging cable wouldn’t have “gigabit speed”

[–] tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago

Oh, okay, makes sense, thanks.