#Video card benchmark 1080p#

If not, stick with 32 GB to ensure that your card works with your device. Check your device to confirm it supports SDXC (extended capacity) cards (meaning cards 64 GB and higher) before buying one. If you need more room to store your media, many 128 GB SD cards cost about the same per gigabyte as their 64 GB counterparts.

64 GB capacity: A 64 GB SD card should be spacious enough for most uses, and such cards are less expensive per gigabyte than 32 GB cards.

But you don’t get the full speed of UHS-II unless both camera and card support UHS-II, because it requires an additional row of physical pins to achieve its extra speed. The standard is backward-compatible, meaning you can use a faster UHS-II card with a UHS-I camera, or a UHS-I card with a UHS-II camera. All the point-and-shoot cameras we recommend support at least UHS-I bus cards.

UHS-I bus mode: Bus mode is a standard that dictates how different generations of SD cards work.

#Video card benchmark 1080p#

Unless your device shoots only 1080p video, it’s worth confirming that a card has a U3 rating, which gives you the option to shoot 4K.

U3 is required for 4K video and designates a minimum write speed of 30 MB/s.

U3 rating: Since most cards now have speeds faster than 10 MB/s, Ultra High Speed classes further differentiate their performance.

(The other speed classes are 2, 4, and 6, which also denote the minimum write speed in megabytes per second.)

Class 10 rating: This rating guarantees the card has a minimum sustained sequential write speed of least 10 MB/s-the bare minimum for shooting 1080p video.