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Passive CablingThey use silicon (semiconductor) to boost the performance of the cable. On the contrary, a cable without a chip is considered as a ‘passive cable’.Passive adapters are merely a cable to go from display port to DVI/HDMI/VGA/ w.e. The video carddetects the monitor as such, and outputs the required signal (DVI/HDMI/VGA). This does require one ofthe two aforementioned clocks, hence why they do not work with eye finity cards.

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Active cables are copper cables for data transmission that use a silicon chip (semiconductor) to boost the performance of the cable. Without a chip a cable is considered a ‘passive’ cable. Passive cables are liable to degrade the data they carry, due to such “channel impairments” as attenuation , cross talk and group velocity distortion. In active cables, one or several semiconductor chips are embedded in the cable to compensate for some or all of these impairments. This active boosting allows cables to be more compact, thinner, longer and transmit data faster than their passive equivalents.

Today, active cables are used to connect consumer devices such as cameras, gaming, consoles and HDTVs, as well as enterprise networks which form the backbone of modern data communication systems.