DVI vs VGA speed...

[Cheetah Designs]

I know this may sound like a VERY silly question but would a DVI cable initialise/switch on my monitor quicker than a VGA cable.

For instance, waking my computer from sleep, it takes the monitor 3 seconds to switch on and show the login screen via VGA....I am wondering, if I switch to DVI, would it load any faster?

 

[delpy8]

DVI is nothing more than a digital display interface. Just like VGA, it operates in real time and a display card that has both VGA and DVI will probably have the two synchronized so that they are exactly in time with one another.

They both have the ability to operate at various frequencies and resolutions.

For a given display resolution and frequency, DVI is not faster or slower than VGA.

 

[Klo]

No, that delay is your monitor doing whatever it has to do, not lack of speed in the cable.

 

[deusexlumina]

lol, it doesn't take 3 seconds for the data to travel from the GPU to the monitor

(jk)

On a serious note, my monitor does the same. It is more of a monitor limitation than anything else. Larger screens suffer from it more than smaller ones too.

 

[Defunkt]

Yup. In my experience it usually comes down to monitor size also. The larger panels take longer to fire up.
My Dell 22" IPS is almost instant. my Samsung 24" takes several seconds and my HP 30" a little longer.
As said, the cabling makes no difference.