Cable Matters [VESA Certified] 80Gbps DisplayPort 2.1 Cable – 6.6ft / 2m, DP80 Cable with 16K 60Hz, 8K 240Hz, 4K 240Hz, FreeSync, G-SYNC and HDR for Gaming Monitor, PC, RTX 4080/4090, RX 7900, Black

With new monitors and GPUs adopting DisplayPort 2.1 this year (2025), these cables will quickly become worth their weight in gold (ironically, because I’m sure they’ve got some gold plating somewhere).Cable Matters is one of the manufacturers of DP2.1 cables that carry a VESA Certification, VESA being the maker of the DisplayPort standard. This means that the cables have been third-party tested and verified to meet or exceed the standards required to transmit 80Gbps.It’s important to note, though, that many vendors ‘stretch’ their VESA certification by slapping it on every cable they make, but it is highly critical to note that they’re not supposed to do that. Every cable a vendor makes at *any length* has to be certified (because distance changes the signal quality, and in high-speed cables, the tolerances are super tight), and Cable Matters has actually done that.Thus, they’re one of only a few vendors where you can grab a DP2.1 cable certified at a length over 3 feet (their 1.5m clocks in at just under 5 feet). Distances over 3 feet are hard to come by, and unless you use Fiber Optic-based cables instead (which go for a hefty premium), you won’t find many copper-based cables that go for a lesser price but still hold up to the test of 2.1 standards, let alone very many cables at all that carry the VESA certification itself (as of the time of writing this).Overall, I’ve been using their brand for nearly a decade now (my first cable from them was in October 2015) for various use cases (ethernet in various CATs, DisplayPort, USB, etc.). I’ve never had one of their products fail other than due to my own misuse (stretching it to capacity, bending it, causing kinks that damaged inner cables, or damaging connector ends, rendering it faulty).