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Simple question, yet oddly hard to google: Do they add any latency? Would performance be better than a DVI-D to VGA adapter? I know they have to have a DAC because DP doesn't natively output analogue.

When IBM introduced the Intel 8080-based Personal Computer (PC) in 1981, it was equipped with an add-in board (AIB) called the Color Graphics Adaptor (CGA) (Fig. 1). The CGA AIB had 16 Kbytes of video ...

A device that converts the DVI output of a graphics card to the VGA input of a monitor. See DVI and VGA. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.