The PNY Elite Performance UHS-I 64GB SDXC Card delivers fast transfer speed for demanding DSLR and video applications. PNY claims a 90MB/s read speed. The Elite Performance is offered in a variety of sizes: 16, 32, 64, 128 and 256 GB capacities. PNY memory cards carry a lifetime warranty in USA (5-year warranty in Europe). The card tested here is made in Korea.
PNY claims a 90MB/s read speed and "write speed lower." In card reader benchmarks, the sequential read speed of the 64GB PNY card was just above 95 MB/s, comfortably faster than advertised. The highest read speed was 95.830 MB/s in the SanDisk Extreme Pro UHS-II SD Reader/Writer. Write speed, while not as fast as the read speed, was a very respectable 67.3 MB/s in the Lexar Professional Dual Slot Reader. This is much faster than the write speed of the 32GB version of the same card.
Card: PNY Elite Performance U1 64GB
Benchmark: CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3 x64
Program settings: 1000 MB, 5 passes, random test data
Operating system: Windows 10 Pro
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H
Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 4.40GHz
RAM: 32GB DDR3 1600
PNY Elite Performance U1 64GB Card Reader Benchmarks | Seq. Read 1000MB MB/s | Seq. Write 1000MB MB/s | Rand. Read 512KB MB/s | Rand. Write 512KB MB/s | Rand. Read 4KB MB/s QD1 | Rand. Read 4KB IOPS QD1 | Rand. Write 4KB MB/s QD1 | Rand. Write 4KB IOPS QD1 | Rand. Read 4KB MB/s QD32 | Rand. Read 4KB IOPS QD32 | Rand. Write 4KB MB/s QD32 | Rand. Write 4KB IOPS QD32 |
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SanDisk Extreme Pro SD UHS-II Reader/Writer | 97.861 | 66.725 | 86.203 | 11.636 | 4.532 | 1106.5 | 0.816 | 199.2 | 5.499 | 1342.4 | 0.793 | 193.6 |
Sony S1 High Speed UHS-II Reader/Writer | 97.815 | 66.920 | 85.991 | 13.433 | 4.212 | 1028.3 | 0.826 | 201.7 | 5.402 | 1318.9 | 0.786 | 192.0 |
Delkin Black Rugged Card Reader | 97.560 | 64.066 | 85.053 | 11.299 | 4.080 | 996.1 | 0.816 | 199.2 | 5.133 | 1253.1 | 0.767 | 187.3 |
Lexar LRWM04U-7000 UHS-II Reader | 96.750 | 66.424 | 89.710 | 30.214 | 6.013 | 1468.1 | 0.707 | 172.5 | 7.937 | 1937.8 | 0.756 | 184.5 |
Lexar Professional Workflow SR2 UHS-II | 96.732 | 66.303 | 89.124 | 34.139 | 5.797 | 1415.2 | 0.781 | 190.8 | 7.790 | 1901.9 | 0.886 | 216.2 |
SanDisk Extreme Pro UHS-II SD Reader/Writer | 95.830 | 66.357 | 89.725 | 32.453 | 6.068 | 1481.5 | 0.705 | 172.1 | 7.833 | 1912.4 | 0.759 | 185.2 |
Kingston MobileLite G4 UHS-II | 95.769 | 66.420 | 89.696 | 27.691 | 5.998 | 1464.5 | 0.818 | 199.7 | 7.871 | 1921.6 | 0.894 | 218.2 |
Transcend Multi-Card Reader RDF8 Black | 95.368 | 64.715 | 87.352 | 21.880 | 5.630 | 1374.5 | 0.681 | 166.2 | 7.292 | 1780.2 | 0.744 | 181.8 |
Lexar Professional Dual Slot Reader | 95.360 | 67.333 | 89.040 | 24.101 | 5.612 | 1370.0 | 0.702 | 171.5 | 7.358 | 1796.4 | 0.793 | 193.6 |
Lexar Professional Workflow SR1 | 95.325 | 66.462 | 87.956 | 23.975 | 5.438 | 1327.6 | 0.699 | 170.5 | 6.967 | 1700.9 | 0.866 | 211.4 |
Delkin Dual Slot SD UHS-II and CF Card Reader | 95.247 | 65.495 | 89.328 | 11.514 | 5.799 | 1415.7 | 0.908 | 221.6 | 7.780 | 1899.5 | 0.885 | 215.9 |
Delkin Multi-Card CFast SD UHS-II microSD Reader | 95.109 | 66.324 | 88.981 | 36.831 | 5.712 | 1394.5 | 0.701 | 171.2 | 7.684 | 1876.1 | 0.744 | 181.6 |
Transcend SD Card Reader RDF5 Black | 95.100 | 66.169 | 87.711 | 34.819 | 4.651 | 1135.5 | 0.641 | 156.5 | 5.446 | 1329.5 | 0.808 | 197.3 |
Transcend Multi-Card Reader RDF9 | 95.092 | 66.737 | 88.568 | 28.751 | 5.739 | 1401.2 | 0.703 | 171.6 | 7.751 | 1892.2 | 0.884 | 215.7 |
SanDisk ImageMate Pro Multi-Card Reader/Writer | 94.902 | 65.774 | 84.051 | 22.985 | 4.066 | 992.7 | 0.621 | 151.5 | 5.336 | 1302.8 | 0.791 | 193.2 |
Kingston FCR-HS4 Card Reader | 94.859 | 66.899 | 88.818 | 32.836 | 5.758 | 1405.8 | 0.719 | 175.7 | 7.645 | 1866.5 | 0.721 | 176.0 |
Lexar Professional Dual Slot UHS-II Card Reader | 94.859 | 64.964 | 88.759 | 43.137 | 5.827 | 1422.7 | 0.687 | 167.7 | 7.638 | 1864.8 | 0.727 | 177.4 |
Delkin Travel Reader | 94.851 | 65.186 | 86.688 | 33.852 | 5.822 | 1421.3 | 0.804 | 196.3 | 7.744 | 1890.5 | 0.895 | 218.6 |
Delkin Universal Memory Card Reader | 94.398 | 66.332 | 88.583 | 35.232 | 5.449 | 1330.2 | 0.675 | 164.8 | 7.305 | 1783.5 | 0.847 | 206.8 |
SanDisk ImageMate All-In-One USB 3.0 | 92.951 | 65.977 | 79.164 | 22.591 | 3.789 | 925.0 | 0.618 | 150.9 | 4.355 | 1063.1 | 0.677 | 165.2 |
Sony MRW-E90 XQD 2.0 / SD UHS-II Card Reader | 92.207 | 65.222 | 85.577 | 11.862 | 5.375 | 1312.3 | 0.691 | 168.8 | 7.254 | 1770.9 | 0.697 | 170.1 |
Kingston Multi-Card Reader FCR-HS3 | 90.348 | 63.864 | 62.664 | 33.841 | 6.007 | 1466.7 | 0.707 | 172.6 | 7.949 | 1940.8 | 0.895 | 218.5 |
The PNY Elite Performance 64GB SDXC card will be tested in upcoming camera write speed tests. Results will appear in the table below.
PNY Elite Performance U1 64GB Tested in Camera | Write Speed (MB/s) |
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Canon 77D | 59.4 |
Canon 80D | 59.3 |
Canon Rebel T7i | 59.2 |
Canon 5D Mark IV | 58.5 |
Canon EOS M5 | 58.4 |
Nikon D500 | 57.8 |
Canon Rebel T6i/T6s | 57.6 |
Fuji X-Pro2 | 57.4 |
Sony A9 | 57.3 |
Nikon D7500 | 55.3 |
Canon 5Ds | 53.9 |
Nikon D5600 | 51.6 |
Nikon D5500 | 49.1 |
Nikon D7100 | 47.4 |
Fuji X-T10 | 47.0 |
Samsung NX1 | 46.8 |
Nikon D7200 | 43.8 |
Olympus E-M1 II | 40.4 |
Olympus PEN-F | 40.1 |
Olympus E-M5 II | 38.4 |
Panasonic GH5 | 37.6 |
Sony A7R II | 34.9 |
Pentax K-3 II | 34.1 |
Sony A6000 | 33.6 |
Canon 70D | 33.5 |
Canon 6D | 33.1 |
Sony A6300 | 32.9 |
Cameras tested with this card: Canon 5D Mark IV, Canon 5Ds, Canon 6D, Canon 70D, Canon 77D, Canon 80D, Canon EOS M5, Canon Rebel T6i/T6s, Canon Rebel T7i, Fuji X-Pro2, Fuji X-T10, Nikon D500, Nikon D7500, Nikon D7200, Nikon D7100, Nikon D5600, Nikon D5500, Olympus E-M1 II, Olympus E-M5 II, Olympus PEN-F, Panasonic GH5, Pentax K-3 II, Samsung NX1, Sony A7R II, Sony A9, Sony A6000, Sony A6300
The following table contains information encoded in the SD card.
PNY Elite Performance U1 64GB SD — Internal Card Information | |
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Serial number (PSN) | 111226349 |
Product Name (PNM) | SD64G |
Product Revision | 0.2 |
Manufacturer ID (MID) | 0x000028 |
OEM ID (OID) | BE |
Manufacture Date (MDT) | 10/2014 |
Total capacity | 64,087,916,544 bytes |
The internal card identification register of this PNY Elite Performance card contains the Manufacturer ID (MID) 0x00028 and OEM ID (OID) "BE," which indicate the card was produced by Lexar. The card also has read speeds very close to the Lexar Professional 600x 64GB SDXC card, which further indicates the cards may share the same controller. Slight differences in write speed may be due variances in NAND chips, with Lexar saving the faster memory for their own brand cards. Since PNY does not manufacture controllers or NAND flash memory, they source parts and OEM services from other companies. As such, PNY may switch suppliers and the performance of their cards could change.
Compare prices on the PNY Elite Performance 90MB/s U1 SD card. The lowest prices are highlighted in the table below. Prices are updated daily.
Card | Size GB | Lowest $ / GB | Prices | ||
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Amazon | B&H Photo | Adorama | |||
PNY Elite Performance 90MB/s U1 SD | 16 | $0.81 | $12.99 | Check price | Check price |
PNY Elite Performance 90MB/s U1 SD | 32 | N/A | Check price | Check price | Check price |
PNY Elite Performance 90MB/s U1 SD | 64 | $0.31 | $19.99 | Check price | Check price |
PNY Elite Performance 90MB/s U1 SD | 128 | $0.23 | $29.99 | Check price | Check price |
PNY Elite Performance 90MB/s U1 SD | 256 | $0.30 | $77.00 | Check price | Check price |