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I've seen many, varying reports on the natives USB ports on the Raspberry Pi. Some say that the Pi has 3.0 ports, while others say that the pi has 3.1 ports.

In many applications, the distinction is critical, as USB 3.1 doubles the transfer rate of 3.0.

What type of USB interface does the raspberry Pi 4 support, and does the Compute module 4 support the same interface?

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Raspberry Pi 4 supports only USB 2.0 (2 ports) and USB 3.0 (2 ports). All other RPis support only USB 2.0. RPi 4 does not support the higher speeds of USB 3.1. This is due to their hardware implementation - the SoC (BCM 2711) simply does not have the capability to support higher speeds. The Compute module uses the same SoC, and has the same constraint.

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