Did you buy a monitor or do you have an old one that only has inputs HDMIand yet your graphics card only has DisplayPort, either because other ports are busy or because you are simply out of options and want to know if there is a way to connect the two devices. Well, today we are going to see it.
To answer briefly, I will tell you that yes, you are lucky and you will be able to do it, also in a very simple, quick and uncomplicated way. It just has a few other drawbacks which we will analyze now.
How to connect DisplayPort to HDMI port?
The solution, as you might guess, is with a adapteror simply with a cable which at each end has the necessary connector type. That is, we can take advantage of our HDMI-HDMI cable if we already have it, by directly purchasing a connector that we are going to show you now, or by purchasing the necessary cable without other intermediary elements.
If you are in option 1, here we leave you the adapterwhich will serve you forever if you need it in another team or at another time.
If you don’t have the cable and directly want one that works for both devices, this one with a HDMI and DisplayPort connector It’s simply perfect.
Now we already have the method and tools needed to connect our monitor to our graphics card, but… is it that simple?
What disadvantages does this present?
The first of these is logically the spent on an adapter or cable, even if it is obvious. However, there is another one that we must take into account when playing our content, namely the versions we have, both the adapter, the cable and the ports.
That is, our graphics and DisplayPort cables can be 2.0 at 77.4 GB/s, however, this speed It is not accepted by an HDMI standard and, therefore, we will limit ourselves to the speed that it offers us, depending on the version it has it will be one or the other.
This happens not only by connecting a more modern standard with higher speed to a lower standard, but also by the type of cable or adapter. Even if we have a 2.0 port, if the cable does not meet the standards, we will not get its speed either.
This is something very recurrent in HDMI. People who buy the cheapest and then watch content in HD that they could see on their 2K monitor at a higher resolution, simply because they don’t pay attention to the version, thinking they are all the same. And the fact is that cheap is expensive.
In short, you can do this in two different ways, but keep in mind the limitations, and you don’t want to do this because DisplayPort supports better speeds, because if you need to transmit from an HDMI monitor, these will not meet your expectations. , so, this is only a solution if you have no other way to do it.
If you have to do this because your graphics card only has 2 ports (HDMI and DisplayPort), remember to connect the faster one to the best monitor you have and leave this method for secondary.
