The CH341A works out of the box on almost any operating system and gives you the freedom to use the best tool for the job.
Most CH341A boards have a jumper or a solder pad to bodge a 3.3V regulator, but stock units come from China running hot. ezp2023 vs ch341a
You are on a strict budget and only need to unbrick a device once or twice. The CH341A works out of the box on
The EZP2023’s LEDs flickered. For the first time, it hesitated. Its logic didn’t have a subroutine for "weird." The EZP2023’s LEDs flickered
If you routinely flash large firmware images (such as 16MB or 32MB BIOS chips), programming speed becomes a massive bottleneck. Feature / Metric USB 1.1 / 2.0 Full Speed USB 2.0 High Speed Read Speed (Approx.) ~100 KB/s to 300 KB/s ~2 MB/s to 3 MB/s Write/Verify Speed Painfully slow on chips >16MB Up to 12x faster than CH341A
Because everyone owns one, there is a fix for every bug. If the official software fails, community tools like AsmProgrammer or NeoProgrammer work flawlessly.