Nikon D3X and Sony Alpha 900 CF Performance Comparison

Rob Galbraith tested Compact Flash performance of Nikon D3x and Sony Alpha 900 recently.The data below shows how long it took the Nikon D3X to write 23 JPEG Fine and then 15 RAW NEF and Sony Alpha 900 to write 20 Extra Fine JPEG and then 10 uncompressed RAW .ARW photos to the memory card.

Here are the results:

Memory Card/ Capacity	Nikon D3x Jpeg	Nikon D3x Raw	Sony Alpha 900 Jpeg	Sony Alpha 900 Raw
SanDisk Extreme Ducati 4GB	30MB/s	32.1MB/s	31.1MB/s	35.5MB/s
SanDisk Extreme IV 2GB	29.5MB/s	31.9MB/s	31.2MB/s	35.5MB/s
SanDisk Extreme Ducati 8GB	28.2MB/s	29.7MB/s	28MB/s	33.8MB/s
SanDisk Extreme IV 45MB/s Edition 16GB	27.2MB/s	29MB/s	27.7MB/s	33.4MB/s

 

For either of the cameras, the use of SanDisk Extreme IV 45MB/s Edition 16GB is recommended due to its size and write performance.

The Sony Alpha 900 does writes faster then Nikon D3x.

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