The question is not which charger is better. It is which laptop you own, because 65W and 100W are not performance tiers — they are answers to two different power budgets, and buying above yours costs money and buys nothing.
Where the 100W actually goes
A 14-inch MacBook Pro with a Pro chip pulls around 96W at full load while charging. A MacBook Air pulls about 45W. A 13-inch Pro, roughly 61W. So a 100W charger exists to serve one specific machine at its worst moment, and everything else in the USB-C world tops out below 65W — phones at 25 to 45W, tablets around 30W, earbuds under 5W.
This is why 65W is the rational default: it covers every phone, tablet, and thin laptop, and it covers a 13-inch Pro at full speed. The 100W only earns its place if you have a 14-inch or 16-inch Pro, or if you want to run a laptop at full speed while also charging a phone — in which case the 100W’s advantage is not the peak, it is the headroom left over after the laptop takes its share.
| UGREEN Nexode 65W | Anker 100W Max | |
|---|---|---|
| Total output | 65 W | 100 W |
| Ports | 3 (2 USB-C + 1 USB-A) | 3 (2 USB-C + 1 USB-A) |
| Single USB-C | 65 W, PPS supported | 100 W |
| USB-A alone | 22.5 W | Not stated in bullets |
| Size | 66 x 40 x 31 mm | 2.72 x 2.17 x 1.34 in |
| Protocols listed | PD 3.0/2.0, QC 4+, PPS, SCP, AFC, FCP | Not itemised |
| Display | None | Yes, per-port output |
Both are three-port, both fold, both are small enough to disappear in a bag. The gap between them is 35W of headroom and a screen — not a difference in quality.
1. UGREEN Nexode 65W: the default answer
Two USB-C and one USB-A, 65W on either USB-C solo, 22.5W on USB-A alone, PPS supported, in a 66 x 40 x 31 mm body. PPS is the detail worth knowing: it is the protocol Samsung and Pixel use for their fastest charging, and a charger without it falls back to slower fixed-voltage charging on those phones. Plenty of 65W bricks list PD and quietly skip PPS.
The protocol list here is unusually complete — PD 3.0/2.0, QC 4+/4/3/2, PPS, SCP, AFC, FCP. That is a manufacturer telling you what it tested rather than what its marketing team liked, and it is the reason this one leads.
Buy it if your laptop is 65W-class or you mostly charge phones and tablets. Skip it if you own a 14-inch or 16-inch Pro and want full-speed charging under load.
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2. Anker 100W Max: the headroom answer
A steady 100W on any USB-C port, three ports, a folding plug, and a display that shows per-port output and temperature. In practice the display is what makes the extra wattage useful: it tells you when a device has negotiated 100W and when it has fallen back to 30, which is the difference between a charger that is working and one that is merely plugged in.
If your laptop is a MacBook Air, this is about 55W of capacity you will never draw. If it is a 14-inch Pro, it is the difference between charging at full speed and charging slowly while you work.
Buy it if you have a 100W-class laptop or charge several large devices at once. Skip it if your devices total under 65W — the extra money buys nothing you can observe.
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The short version
Add up what your devices actually draw: phone 25-45W, tablet about 30W, Air-class laptop 45W, 13-inch Pro 61W, 14-inch Pro 96W. If the total is under 65 and you charge one thing at a time, buy 65W and put the difference toward a better cable. If you own a 14-inch or 16-inch Pro, buy 100W — and check that it publishes how the watts divide across ports, because that is the number that decides whether your laptop charges at full speed with a phone plugged in beside it.