The future is now. I remember when a few years ago recharging a 30w it was a revolution. GaN charger and super strong cables were on everyone's lips. Well, technology is making great strides day by day and a well-known graphics card company has succeeded in a titanic undertaking: the creation of a USB-C charging cable with maximum supported power of 240W. But not only this: the support is also guaranteed "video side". Let's go see the details.
Introduced the world's first USB-C cable capable of transmitting 240W of power and which can also be used to transmit 8K 60 fps video
The well-known manufacturer of graphics cards Club3D unveiled a new generation of USB-C cables that meet the requirements of the USB-IF USB-C 2.1 specification, adopted last May. Their main feature is the support to broadcast up to 240W of power. This feature goes hand in hand with the ever increasing charging standards that companies like Xiaomi and Oppo are integrating on their smartphones.
As we can see in the photo, there are three models: the simplest CAC-1573 can only be used for power supply. Model CAC-1575 it can not only transmit 240W of power, but also transmit data: the throughput is 20 Gb / s. This is enough to display a 4K resolution image at 60 fps. The top model CAC-1576 has a higher data throughput of 40 Gbps.
The length of CAC-1573 and CAC-1575 is 2 meters, CAC-1576 is 1 meter. There is no data on the cost apparently. Furthermore, the company is ready to announce them only on request. It has to be said that the ability to transfer so much power with new cables is rather odd, at least for now: there are no consumer power supplies with a UCB-C connector that would still output 240W of power. But we'll see in the near future.
Through | The Verge, Tom's Hardware
Source | Club3D (1, 2, 3)
