DisplayPort Extension Cable v1.4 – Male to Female, Nylon Braided

Description

A displayport extension cable does one job: it makes a lead you already own long enough for where the monitor ended up. Male plug on one end, female socket on the other, in 1, 2 and 3 metre lengths — so nothing gets replaced and nothing gets unplugged at the graphics card.

When a displayport extension cable beats buying a longer lead

The desk moved. The monitor went on an arm. The tower came off the desk and went underneath it. In every one of those cases the lead that has worked for three years is suddenly half a metre short, and it is otherwise perfectly good.

Replacing it means pulling a cable out of a card that is usually face-down in a dark corner behind a tower, then routing a whole new run through whatever cable management you have already tidied. A displayport extension cable skips all of that. Plug it onto the end you can actually reach and carry on.

It is also the cheap option on a long run. A 5 metre lead costs more than a 2 metre lead plus a 3 metre displayport extension cable, and when the desk moves back you still have two useful parts instead of one awkward one.

Male to female, which is what makes it an extension

This is a displayport male to female cable, and that is the whole distinction. The male plug goes into your monitor or your existing lead’s socket end; the female socket takes the male plug on the end of the lead you already have. Every displayport male to female cable in this listing is wired that way around, in all three lengths.

Worth a five-second check before you order, because it is the one thing people get wrong. If both ends of what you need are plugs, you want a straight lead rather than a dp extension cable. If both ends need to be sockets — joining two leads that each end in a plug — you want a coupler, and we stock one of those too.

About the 8K 60Hz

DisplayPort 1.4 carries 32.4 Gbps. Uncompressed, that is 4K at 60Hz with HDR and 30-bit colour, which is what most setups are actually running. 8K 60Hz and 4K 120Hz both need Display Stream Compression, and DSC lives in the graphics card and the monitor — not in any cable.

So the honest version is this: if your card and your display both do DSC and you are already getting 8K60 on a direct connection, this displayport extension cable passes it through. If either end does not, no lead of any version or price will produce it. We would rather say that up front than have you buy a displayport male to female cable expecting it to add capability it cannot add.

Same logic on audio. DisplayPort carries multichannel audio to the display, and that works through this dp extension cable. It does not carry eARC, which is an HDMI feature — if a listing tells you a DisplayPort product supports eARC, that copy has come off an HDMI page.

Built to be handled, not just plugged in once

Nylon braid over the jacket, because a dp extension cable is the part of the run that gets moved, stood on and pulled. Gold-plated contacts on both the plug and the socket, which matters more here than on a fixed lead — you are adding a second mated connector pair to the chain, and that join is where a marginal signal shows up first.

Why purchase this displayport extension cable from Core Connect Aust?

Stocked in Melbourne, not drop-shipped. Order before 10am and your displayport extension cable ships the same day via Australia Post with tracking and insurance, backed by a 90-day warranty and a team who will tell you when a straight lead or a coupler is the better answer for what you are actually doing.

Get the monitor where you want it. Order your displayport extension cable today.

Compatibility

Extends any full-size DisplayPort connection — male plug at one end, female socket at the other:

• DisplayPort 1.4, and backward compatible with 1.3 and 1.2
• Desktop graphics cards, workstations and mini PCs with a full-size DisplayPort output
• Laptops and docking stations with a full-size DisplayPort output
• Monitors, ultrawides, projectors and capture cards with a full-size DisplayPort input
• Any existing DisplayPort lead with a standard male plug — that plug goes into the socket end

It extends DisplayPort, it does not convert it. Both ends are DisplayPort. If you need to reach an HDMI, USB-C, DVI or VGA port, that is a different product and we will point you at the right one. Mini DisplayPort and Thunderbolt ports need a Mini DisplayPort lead or an adapter first; this lead is full-size at both ends.

What an extension can and cannot fix. An extension adds a second pair of mated connectors to the run, and the whole chain — the lead you already own, this extension, and both joins — decides what the two devices negotiate. Two good short cables joined into a moderate run behave like one cable. A long cheap cable extended to something very long may not train at the top resolution, and when DisplayPort fails it fails visibly: flicker, black screens, or the display quietly dropping to a lower mode rather than showing an error. Keep the total run as short as the job allows, and put the better cable on the source side.

What 8K 60Hz needs. DisplayPort 1.4 carries 32.4 Gbps. Uncompressed, that is a 4K 60Hz signal with HDR and 30-bit colour — 8K 60Hz and 4K 120Hz both need Display Stream Compression (DSC), which lives in the graphics card and the monitor, not in the lead. If your source and display both do DSC and you are already running 8K60 on a direct connection, this extension passes it through. If either end does not, nothing you plug in will produce it.

Audio, and what DisplayPort does not carry. DisplayPort sends multichannel audio to the display along with the picture, and that passes through this extension. It does not do eARC — that is an HDMI feature, defined in the HDMI specification, and no DisplayPort product supports it whatever a listing says.

Core Connect Aust is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by VESA, HDMI Licensing Administrator, Dolby Laboratories, NVIDIA, AMD or Intel. DisplayPort is a trademark of the Video Electronics Standards Association and all other brand and model names are trademarks of their respective owners, used here for compatibility reference only. This is not a manufacturer-branded product.