VESA announces DisplayPort 2.1 specs

Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) has released latest version of the DisplayPort specification: DisplayPort 2.1. This latests version is backward compatible with and supersedes DisplayPort 2.0. VESA said it has been working closely with member companies to ensure that products supporting DisplayPort 2.0 would actually meet the newer, more demanding DisplayPort 2.1 spec. With this announcement all the previously certified DisplayPort 2.0 products including UHBR (Ultra-high Bit Rate) capable products including GPUs, docking station chips, monitor scalar chips, PHY repeater chips such as re-timers, or DP40/DP80 cables (including both passive and active, and using full-size DisplayPort, Mini DisplayPort or USB Type-C connectors) – have already been certified to the stricter DisplayPort 2.1 spec. "Achieving a robust, end-to-end user visual experience remains the ut most priority for VESA’s DisplayPort specification, whether across a native DisplayPort cable, via DisplayPort Alt Mode (DisplayPort over the USB Type-C connector), or tunneled through the USB4 link. As such, DisplayPort 2.1 has tightened its alignment with the USB Type-C specification as well as the USB4 PHY specification to facilitate a common PHY servicing both DisplayPort and USB4. In addition, DisplayPort 2.1 has added a new DisplayPort bandwidth management feature to enable DisplayPort tunneling...