Best memory cards for the Nikon D850 DSLR camera (XQD, UHS-II and UHS-I)



Alik Griffin tested the most popular memory cards in the Nikon D850 DSLR camera: XQD, UHS-II and UHS-I SD. Here are the results:

Memory Cards USB 3 read USB 3 write Nikon D850
XQD
LEXAR 2933X 344 MB/s 202 MB/s 115.45 MB/s
SONY G 400MB/S 330 MB/s 188 MB/s 113.84 MB/s
SONY M 150MB/S 347 MB/s 111 MB/s 97.53 MB/s
SONY M 80MB/S 276 MB/s 30 MB/s 34.72 MB/s
UHS-II
SONY G 269.3 MB/s 234.5 MB/s 97.88 MB/s
DELKIN 250 271.4 MB/s 231.3 MB/s 96.48 MB/s
Sandisk Extreme PRO 300 273.9 MB/s 238.9 MB/s 96.30 MB/s
TOSHIBA Exceria PRO 258.8 MB/s 226.5 MB/s 92.69 MB/s
LEXAR 2000X 272.7 MB/s 244.5 MB/s 92.30 MB/s
TRANSCEND 290.2 MB/s 182.1 MB/s 91.21 MB/s
FUJIFILM Elite II 294.0 MB/s 181.6 MB/s 90.27 MB/s
Sandisk Extreme PRO 280 260.5 MB/s 214.8 MB/s 89.79 MB/s
HOODMAN Steel 2000X 268.7 MB/s 183.9 MB/s 88.05 MB/s
ADATA V90 256.5 MB/s 231.7 MB/s 81.50 MB/s
SONY M 253.2 MB/s 91.62 MB/s 68.34 MB/s
DELKIN 1900X 273.3 MB/s 97.3 MB/s 66.28 MB/s
LEXAR 1000X 153.4 MB/s 84.30 MB/s 55.25 MB/s
UHS-I
Sandisk Extreme PRO U3 98.6 MB/s 90.8 MB/s 65.29 MB/s
KINGSTON U3 98.1 MB/s 90.4 MB/s 64.75 MB/s
DELKIN 633X U3 98.3 MB/s 88.7 MB/s 62.39 MB/s
SONY U3 – old model 96.5 MB/s 84.5 MB/s 58.86 MB/s
SAMSUNG PRO+ U3 97.5 MB/s 87.3 MB/s 58.78 MB/s
TRANSCEND U3 96.7 MB/s 84.9 MB/s 56.11 MB/s
SAMSUNG PRO U1 96.3 MB/s 82.2 MB/s 56.03 MB/s
SAMSUNG PRO U3 97.7 MB/s 78.6 MB/s 53.78 MB/s
PNY Elite U3 96.5 MB/s 66.1 MB/s 49.94 MB/s
Sandisk Extreme Plus U3 99.0 MB/s 64.4 MB/s 49.61 MB/s
SONY U3 – new model 96.7 MB/s 56.2 MB/s 47.89 MB/s
PNY Elite U1 96.5 MB/s 66.5 MB/s 47.43 MB/s
LEXAR 633X U3 93.3 MB/s 67.3 MB/s 46.86 MB/s
Sandisk Extreme U3 72.43 MB/s 54.1 MB/s 42.69 MB/s
LEXAR 600X U1 95.4 MB/s 64.8 MB/s 42.04 MB/s
SANDISK Ultra U1 99.3 MB/s 36.1 MB/s 23.69 MB/s
SAMSUNG U1 Evo 47.7 MB/s 27.3 MB/s 20.23 MB/s

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