Anker 765 USB-C to USB-C 240W Cable Review (2026): The

Why you should trust this review

I cover laptop and charging accessories at The Tested Hub, and over the years I have run roughly eighteen USB-C cables across the 60W to 240W range through the same routine. For this review I bought the Anker 765 240W cable myself at retail back in December. Anker did not provide a sample and had no idea the cable was being tested, which is exactly how I want it. There is no relationship to manage and no review unit to send back, so what you read here is what the cable actually did in my bag and on my desk.

That matters with a cable more than with most products, because a cable is the part of the charging chain nobody thinks about until it fails. I treated this one like a daily driver. It became my main MacBook Pro 16 charger, it got coiled and uncoiled into a laptop bag most days, and it spent time on a high power test rig pulling the full rated load. I compared it directly against the Apple Thunderbolt cable I already owned and a no name USB-C cable from a marketplace listing, on a MacBook Pro 16, a MacBook Air 15, and the bench rig.

How we evaluated

My cable routine is built around three things that actually matter on a power cable: wattage delivery, durability, and data. For wattage I put an inline meter on the wall side and another reading at the laptop side, then took the difference as line loss. I ran that at 100W, at 140W, and at the full 240W load on the rig. For certification I checked the cable against the public USB-IF integrators database to confirm the listing was real rather than a printed claim.

Durability got the most attention because that is where cheap cables die. I plugged and unplugged it into the same MacBook Pro 16 port around 800 times across the test window, inspecting the strain relief at 100, 400, and 800 cycles. I also folded it at the connector at a hard 90 degree angle a hundred times to simulate the worst case bag kink. Finally I moved a 1GB file between two USB-C devices to confirm the data ceiling, since the data spec is the one place this cable makes a deliberate compromise.

Wattage delivery: it carries what it claims

The headline is 240W over USB PD 3.1 Extended Power Range, and the rig confirmed it. I pushed the full 240W through the cable and saw no voltage drop I could measure at the load end. That is the number that matters if you have a high draw laptop or a workstation brick that pushes past 100W, because an underrated cable simply throttles and you never see the speed you paid for.

In normal life the loads are smaller, and the results were just as clean. Charging the MacBook Pro 16 at around 96W under load, my inline meters read 96W at the wall and 95W at the laptop, a single watt of loss that is completely normal for a six foot cable. The MacBook Pro 16 ships with a 140W brick, and the 765 carried the full 140W when the laptop asked for it. The point of buying a 240W cable today is headroom: new high power laptops are shipping with 140W and higher chargers, and a 100W cable would cap them. This one will not be the bottleneck for the next few years.

Certification that is actually verifiable

Plenty of cables print USB PD on the jacket. Far fewer are listed in the USB-IF integrators database, which is a public registry you can check yourself. I looked up this cable and confirmed the listing was active. Most of the no name cables I have tested do not appear there at all, which tells you the claim was never verified by anyone outside the seller.

On a charging cable that distinction is not academic. A cable that fails under a high power negotiation can damage the laptop charging port or the brick on the other end. Paying a little more for a cable that is actually in the registry is cheap insurance against an expensive repair, and it is the single biggest reason I keep recommending this one over a marketplace bargain.

Build and durability after 800 cycles

The braided nylon sheath is the part that earns its keep over months. After five months and roughly 800 plug cycles, it shows no fraying at all, the aluminum connector housings have not loosened, and the strain relief at each end is still firm. The 90 degree fold test left no visible damage either. This is the opposite of the typical experience with a cheap cable, where the jacket splits at the connector and the copper starts to show within a few months.

The one honest gripe is that the cable is stiff when new, especially in a cold room. It does not coil neatly out of the box and it has a bit of memory at first. After a few weeks of regular use the braid softens noticeably and it behaves like a normal cable. The six foot length is a good middle ground for me, long enough to reach a laptop on a stand but short enough that it does not turn into a tangle in the bag.

Data: the deliberate trade off

This is where you need to be honest with yourself about what you are buying. The 765 is USB 2.0 data only, which means 480 Mbps. My file transfer between two SSDs sat at the USB 2.0 ceiling, around 32 MB per second sustained. It cannot drive a 4K monitor over USB-C, and it is far too slow for serious external SSD work. If either of those is on your list, this is the wrong cable and you want a Thunderbolt or USB 4 cable instead, which costs a great deal more.

For a charging cable, though, I think Anker made the right call. Adding full high speed data would push the price up sharply for a feature most people charging a laptop never use. Keeping data at USB 2.0 and putting the engineering budget into the power rating and the sheath is the smarter balance for the way this cable will actually be used.

Who should buy the Anker 765 240W cable?

Buy it if you charge a high power laptop and want a cable rated above your charger’s maximum, if you value being able to verify the certification yourself, and if you want a braided cable that survives bag carry. It is also the right pick if you only ever use the cable for charging and have a separate cable for data or monitor output.

Skip it if you need to drive an external 4K display over USB-C, if you move large files over an external SSD and need the speed, or if you genuinely only care about the cheapest possible cable and accept the risk that an unrated cable can carry. For everything else in the charging lane, this is the one I keep reaching for.

The verdict

The Anker 765 240W cable does the one job it sets out to do extremely well: it carries real wattage safely and survives daily abuse without complaint. Five months in, it delivers full power with negligible loss, the certification checks out in a public registry, and the braided sheath looks new after 800 cycles. The USB 2.0 data ceiling is a real limitation, but it is a limitation you choose with open eyes, not a surprise. If you want a charging cable you can trust under high load and forget about, this is the one I recommend without reservation.