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What is the difference between VGA

VGA, SVGA, and UXGA are terms that refer to different monitor resolutions, with VGA being the lowest at 640x480 and UXGA supporting up to 1600x1200. Despite the different designations, the same HD15 connector is used for all, and the term 'VGA' is commonly used to refer to any video output regardless of actual resolution capabilities. L-com does sell cables compatible with these formats.

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What is the difference between VGA

VGA, SVGA, and UXGA are terms that refer to different monitor resolutions, with VGA being the lowest at 640x480 and UXGA supporting up to 1600x1200. Despite the different designations, the same HD15 connector is used for all, and the term 'VGA' is commonly used to refer to any video output regardless of actual resolution capabilities. L-com does sell cables compatible with these formats.

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What is the difference between VGA,

SVGA and UXGA, and does L-com sell


cables for each?
The terms VGA, SVGA, XGA, SXGA, UXGA etc., all relate to the resolution a monitor
supports.

The video format is the same despite the different designations and as an example a UXGA
monitor can Display resolutions from VGA all the way up to UXGA. In all cases they use the
same HD15 connector (below images) and VGA and SVGA cables.

Regardless of what resolution a Monitor or Video Card is able to support, they are commonly
referred to as just being VGA, the naming conventions listed above never really caught on
with the general public and thus even the most High End 3-D Graphics card from Companies
like NVIDIA or ATI will have what they term a VGA port (in addition to a DVI port in many
cases) even though the card may output resolutions greater than 1920 x 1440.

Some High End Monitors support resolutions up to 2048x1536 @ 79Hz, which is still part of
the same Multisync format and is backwards compatible to lower resolutions. Most High End
Monitor Manufacturers don't mention VGA, SVGA etc at all, they typically refer to Monitors
as CRT's, LCD's or Plasma Displays and list the maximum resolution that they support and
at what refresh rate.

The relationship is as follows:

*Legacy Resolutions no longer supported (included only for reference)


Description Code Resolution
*(Color Graphics Adapter) CGA 320 x 200
*(Enhanced Graphics
EGA 640 x 350
Adapter)
(Video Graphics Array) VGA 640 x 480
(Super Video Graphics
SVGA 800 x 600
Array)
(High Definition
HDTV 1280 x 720
Television 720i/p)
(Extended Graphics Array)XGA 1024 x 768
(Wide Extended Graphics
WXGA 1366 x 768
Array)
(Super Extended Graphics
SXGA 1280 x 1024
Array)
(Super Extended Graphics
SXGA+ 1400 x 1050
Array+)
(Wide Super Extended
WSXGA 1600 x 1024
Graphics Array)
(Wide Super Extended WSXGA+ 1680 x 1050
Graphics Array+)
(High Definition
HDTV 1920 x 1080
Television 1080i/p)
(Ultra Extended Graphics
UXGA 1600 x 1200
Array)
(Wide Ultra Extended
WUXGA 1920 x 1200
Graphics Array)
(Quad Extended Graphics
QXGA 2048 x 1536
Array)
(Quad Super Extended
QSXGA 2560 x 2048
Graphics Array)
(Wide Quad Super
WQSXGA 3200 x 2048
Extended Graphics Array)
(Quad Ultra Extended
QUXGA 3200 x 2400
Graphics Array)
(Wide Quad Ultra
WQUXGA 3840 x 2400
Extended Graphics Array)
(Hex Super Extended
HSXGA 5120 x 4096
Graphics Array)
(Wide Hex Super
WHSXGA 6400 x 4096
Extended Graphics Array)
(Hex Ultra Extended
HUXGA 6400 x 4800
Graphics Array)
(Wide Hex Ultra Extended
WHUXGA 7680 x 4800
Graphics Array)

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