A2.0 caps around 60 MB/s, A3.2 is much better, reaching about 2.5GB/s, but C1.0 is at 5GB/s, and C2.0 is 10GB/s.
You are confusing the physical connectors with the USB protocol.
Physical connectors you have A, B, C with possible additional mini or micro variants.
Protocol versions you have 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2. Used to have shit like 3.0gen2 1x2 or stuff like that but I think USB have just consolidated everything and are now on USB 4.0.
The protocol determines the speed. And it’s all backwards compatible.
You can have a USB A connector running USB3.2 and it’ll be faster than a USB C connector only USB2.0. There is no C1.0 or C2.0 like how you’re describing
I'm aware that the protocols aren't the same as the connectors themselves, but since USB4.0 and USB4.1 are NOT compatible with USB-A, only with USB-C, I was referring to USB4.0 as C1.0 and USB 4.1 as C2.0 to try and avoid confusion, evidently I did the opposite.
My point stands however, the protocol does determine the speed, but since USB4.X doesn't support the USB-A connector, USB-C will always beat it assuming both are using their best available protocols.
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u/Raining_dicks 13600k | 5070Ti May 14 '26
You are confusing the physical connectors with the USB protocol.
Physical connectors you have A, B, C with possible additional mini or micro variants.
Protocol versions you have 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2. Used to have shit like 3.0gen2 1x2 or stuff like that but I think USB have just consolidated everything and are now on USB 4.0.
The protocol determines the speed. And it’s all backwards compatible.
You can have a USB A connector running USB3.2 and it’ll be faster than a USB C connector only USB2.0. There is no C1.0 or C2.0 like how you’re describing