[SOLVED] Do I need a 4K HDMI cable even if my monitor is not 4k?

[tzuzu100]

Do I need a 4K HDMI cable even if my monitor is not 4k?

 

[sizzling]

No such thing as a 4K HDMI

 

[tzuzu100]

do you mean a 4k cable is
nonsense?

 

[Mtop]

There are newer specifications every year as monitors get higher and higher resolutions. See below, I recently had to upgrade to a newer HDMI 2.1 cable when I hooked up to an UHD 4K Oled TV, had glitches in video while the old TV had no trouble at 4K
https://www.hdmi.org/spec/index
And your answer is No, unless you have trouble.