Is there any such cable? I'm trying to connect a monitor with display port connector to a MBA with Thunderbolt port. I know I can use a Display port to Mini-display port cable but I'm wondering if there is any Thunderbolt to Display Port cable so that I can get a better resolution.
Do Thunderbolt to Display Port cables exist
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Best Answer
There can be no such thing.
Thunderbolt is an active technology, Display Port is passive.
Adding the required circuitry to one end of such a cable would be pointless - it needs both ends to work.
Edit: Now I read your question again…
You have a Thunderbolt machine & a Display Port monitor…
That's Thunderbolt to Display Port not Display Port to Thunderbolt.
In which case DP to DP would be sufficient; the Thunderbolt circuitry would simply be inactive if you used Thunderbolt to Thunderbolt.
Display Port & mini-DP are the same thing, but different sizes.