After the news that all Lexar memory cards will be discontinued, there have been some discussions about the speed of the different SD and XQD memory cards. I found some tests performed by Lexar that you may find interesting – the first one is a comparison between the Lexar 64GB 2000x SDXC UHS-II ($94.82) and Lexar […]
Lexar published new speed test results for their latest XQD memory cards on a Nikon D500 camera – see the video below for more details: XQD cards test results on the Nikon D500 Lexar XQD Professional 2933x XQD 2.0 64GB vs. Lexar XQD Professional 1400x XQD 2.0 64GB:
Cameramemoryspeed published their comparison/test results of different Sony and Lexar XQD memory cards with the Nikon D5 – the Lexar Professional 2933x XQD 2.0 was the best performer followed by the Sony G Series XQD:
Lexar Japan published a new video where you can see the difference in performance between XQD, CF and SD cards in the new D5/D500 cameras: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEUeRqA41E8 The video is over 8 minutes, so here are the actual test results (number of shots taken displayed on the graph):
A quick update: the memory card slots in the Nikon D5 camera (XQD or CF) can be exchanged at a Nikon service center (for a fee of course). This info can be found on page 15 of the D5 brochure (thanks RMJ and akkual).
Nikon Asia published a video of a Nikon D4s XQD memory card speed performance test during shooting and transferring files to a computer:
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