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by azinman2 678 days ago
Does tolerant mean ok to do? Or it just won’t fry your chip but you should actually run at 3.3?
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5V tolerant means that it'll accept 5V input (and correctly interpret it as high), but output will still be 3.3V.
It usually means it's clamped so it might result in a small amount of wasted energy/heat but no damage.

So yes it means it's okay but if you can you should go for 3.3.