Highwings 8K HDMI 2.1 Cable, 6.6 ft
HDMI 2.1, 48 Gbps
The listing states
- Certified ultra high speed
- 48 Gbps
- 4K at 120Hz
- 8K at 60Hz
- DTS:X
- HDCP 2.2 and 2.3
- HDR10
- Braided
- 6.6 ft
HDMI Cables
Length is the one figure every listing here gives in the same units, so length is what the line compares. Bandwidth, certification and connector type are read on the cards below it, where the differences actually live.
Range line
Stated length · ft
Further right is a longer run. Nothing about speed or jacket rating is encoded in this position.
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- Amazon Basics HDMI Cable, 3 ft3 ft
- Anker Ultra High Speed HDMI Cable, 6 ft6 ft
- Highwings 4K HDMI 2.0 Cable, 6.6 ft6.6 ft
- Highwings 8K HDMI 2.1 Cable, 6.6 ft6.6 ft
- Highwings 8K HDMI 2.1 Cable, 6.6 ft, 2-pack6.6 ft
- Silkland Certified HDMI 2.1 Cable, 6.6 ft6.6 ft
- Ubluker Certified HDMI 2.1 Cable, 6.6 ft6.6 ft
- UGREEN 8K HDMI 2.1 Cable, 6.6 ft6.6 ft
- Highwings In-Wall CL3 HDMI 2.1 Cable, 15 ft15 ft
Amazon Basics HDMI Cable, 3 ft. The left end of the line, and the only length here under six feet. A run this short is a console and a panel on the same piece of furniture.
Anker Ultra High Speed HDMI Cable, 6 ft. A little to the left of the crowd, at a round six feet. The difference from its neighbors is roughly seven inches, which matters only when the run was measured to the inch.
Highwings 4K HDMI 2.0 Cable, 6.6 ft. The same length as most of the page on a lower stated bandwidth. Length is what the line compares, and this is where length stops telling you things.
Highwings 8K HDMI 2.1 Cable, 6.6 ft. In the crowd at six and a half feet, where most of this page sits. The listing pairs that length with a certification claim and a braided jacket.
Highwings 8K HDMI 2.1 Cable, 6.6 ft, 2-pack. One point on the line, two cables in the box. If the plan already has two runs of about this length, that is the whole argument.
Silkland Certified HDMI 2.1 Cable, 6.6 ft. Same position on the line, and the longest list of stated formats on this page. Everything that separates it from its neighbors is on the card, not on the line.
Ubluker Certified HDMI 2.1 Cable, 6.6 ft. The last of the six-and-a-half-foot group. When five cables land on the same point, the line has done its work and the decision moves to the cards.
UGREEN 8K HDMI 2.1 Cable, 6.6 ft. Same length again. The listing describes an aluminum connector shell, which is a note about the housing and therefore about the depth behind a panel.
Highwings In-Wall CL3 HDMI 2.1 Cable, 15 ft. Alone at the right-hand end, more than twice the length of the crowd. It is also the only cable here whose listing states an in-wall rating, which is the reason a run gets this long in the first place.
Off the line
This cable has a different connector at one end. Its length is stated on its card, but it is not placed on the line, because the line compares HDMI cables to each other and a comparison across connector types would not mean anything.
Amazon Basics DisplayPort to HDMI Cable, 6 ft
Different connector
Core job
Carry what the source is sending across the exact distance the room needs, from a jacket that is allowed to be wherever the run goes.
Subgroups
HDMI 2.1, 48 Gbps
Listings stating 48 Gbps and the resolution and refresh combinations that go with it. Most of this page sits here, at almost the same length.
HDMI 2.0, 18 Gbps
Listings stating 18 Gbps. Enough headroom for a great deal of what is actually watched, and worth checking against both ends of your own chain.
In-wall rated
The only listing here stating a jacket rating for use inside a wall. That marking, not the speed figure, is what decides whether a cable may be there.
Different connector
DisplayPort at one end. A different class of part, kept off the length line and described on its own terms.
Buying order
- Measure the run in three segments along the path the cable will take, then add slack. That total rules out lengths before anything else does.
- Decide whether any part of the run goes inside a wall. If it does, the jacket marking becomes the first filter and everything else waits.
- Work out what the source and the display are each capable of. A cable cannot lift either of them, and the figure you need follows from the lower one.
- Check the connector at both ends of the chain, especially if a laptop is involved. A wrong connector is not fixed by a longer cable.
- Only then compare the listings on speed and certification, inside the length you already know you need.
Skip these
- A longer cable bought as insurance for a run that was never measured. Extra length has to live somewhere, and behind a stand is where it kinks.
- A cable bought to fix a picture fault before both ends of the chain have been checked. The cable is the cheapest suspect, not the likeliest one.
- Any cable for an in-wall run whose listing does not state an in-wall rating.
- An ordinary cable plus an adapter, where a single cable with the right ends exists.
- A second cable bought at the same time as a projector, before you know where the projector will sit.
Category cautions
Stop
Only a cable whose listing and jacket state an in-wall rating goes inside a wall. A high bandwidth figure is not a substitute, and neither is a braided sleeve.
Note
Every speed, format and certification claim on this page is transcribed from the listing. Nothing here has been tested, and no cable is described as doing more than its listing says.
HDMI 2.1, 48 Gbps
Silkland Certified HDMI 2.1 Cable, 6.6 ft
HDMI 2.1, 48 Gbps
The listing states
- Certified
- 48 Gbps
- 4K at 240, 144 and 120Hz
- 8K at 60Hz
- HDR10+
- eARC
- HDCP 2.3
- Dolby Atmos
- DTS:X
- Braided
- 6.6 ft
Anker Ultra High Speed HDMI Cable, 6 ft
HDMI 2.1, 48 Gbps
The listing states
- Certified 48 Gbps
- 8K at 60Hz
- 4K at 120Hz
- 6 ft
Only two-pack listed here
Highwings 8K HDMI 2.1 Cable, 6.6 ft, 2-pack
HDMI 2.1, 48 Gbps
The listing states
- Certified 48 Gbps
- 4K at 120Hz
- 8K at 60Hz
- HDCP 2.2 and 2.3
- eARC
- Dynamic HDR
- DTS:X
- Slim braided
- 2-pack
- 6.6 ft each
The listing states a 2-pack of certified 48 Gbps cables at 6.6 ft each. Every other listing on this page is a single cable.
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UGREEN 8K HDMI 2.1 Cable, 6.6 ft
HDMI 2.1, 48 Gbps
The listing states
- Certified 48 Gbps
- 4K at 240 and 120Hz
- 8K at 60Hz
- HDCP 2.2 and 2.3
- eARC
- HDR10
- Aluminum shell
- 6.6 ft
Ubluker Certified HDMI 2.1 Cable, 6.6 ft
HDMI 2.1, 48 Gbps
The listing states
- Certified
- 48 Gbps
- 4K at 240, 144 and 120Hz
- 8K at 60Hz
- HDR10+
- eARC
- HDCP 2.3
- 6.6 ft
HDMI 2.0, 18 Gbps
Shortest length listed here
Amazon Basics HDMI Cable, 3 ft
HDMI 2.0, 18 Gbps
The listing states
- HDMI 2.0
- 18 Gbps
- 4K at 60Hz
- 2160p
- 48 bit
- 3 ft
The listing states 3 ft. No other cable on this page is listed shorter.
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Highwings 4K HDMI 2.0 Cable, 6.6 ft
HDMI 2.0, 18 Gbps
The listing states
- 18 Gbps
- 48 bit
- Braided
- Ethernet
- ARC
- 3D
- HDCP 2.2
- HDR
- 6.6 ft
In-wall rated
Only stated in-wall rating
Highwings In-Wall CL3 HDMI 2.1 Cable, 15 ft
In-wall rated
The listing states
- 48 Gbps
- 8K at 60Hz
- 4K at 120Hz
- In-wall CL3 rated
- eARC
- HDCP
- 15 ft
The listing states an in-wall CL3 rating at 48 Gbps over 15 ft. No other cable on this page states any in-wall rating.
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Different connector at one end
Amazon Basics DisplayPort to HDMI Cable, 6 ft
Different connector
The listing states
- DisplayPort to HDMI, uni-directional
- 4K at 30Hz
- 1920x1200
- 1080p
- Gold-plated connectors
- 6 ft
The listing states DisplayPort at one end and HDMI at the other, uni-directional, at 4K and 30Hz. It answers a different question from every other cable here.
Read firstThe listing states this cable is uni-directional, from a DisplayPort source to an HDMI display. Reversing the ends does not reverse the function. It is kept off the length line because the line compares HDMI cables to each other, and a different connector is a different class of part.
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