Two USB3 cables work very differently with one device

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Short story, I recently bought an NVMe enclosure for a drive which is USB 3.2 Gen 2 compatible and it came with a USBC-A cable in the box. When using this drive and cable with my PC I got very slow transfer rates, in the 500KB/s range.

I buy a different USBC-A cable, same drive, same ports, and I get 50-60MB/s.
How can two cables, both sold as 3.2 Gen 2 compatible, perform so differently?

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There could be fewer data connections between the two ends. Many manufacturers of these cords tend to mass produce them as cheap charging cables, meaning that data bandwidth would be a secondary concern.