Types Of Dvi D Cables

This is due to the digital format of the signal.

Types of dvi d cables. True to their purpose dvi i connectors will work with all three dvi cable types. Find dvi products here. Dvi d cables support higher qualities and offer more speed. But they convert them to analog signals for transmission.

Dvi d cables eliminate the need for format conversion and most video cards produce digital signals. Generally dvi d connectors are the one you can find on most of the monitors. Digital visual interface dvi is a video display interface developed by the digital display working group ddwg. The specialty of these cables is they work with both dvi d and dvi i connectors.

However a male dvi i cable will not fit in a female dvi d connector due to its additional analog pins. For single link there are 18 pins in total and a ground pin 18 1. Dvi d the digital signal type that runs through a dvi cable is sometimes referred to as dvi d. The dvi d connector contains 3 rows of 8 pins and a grounding slot in case of dual link type which means 24 1 pins.

For example you can use dvi d to connect gpu with lcd monitors. 4 9 out of 5 stars based on 7 reviews 7 ratings current price 12 98 12. This format is completely incompatible with any analog signal format and therefore cannot be connected to anything that doesn t also handle dvi d or hdmi.