Best Memory Cards Fujifilm X-T5

Choosing the right memory card can be a crucial part of getting the best performance out of your Fujifilm X-T5 camera. To help you make the right selection, we’ve put together this guide to highlight the best memory cards for your X-T5 that are available on the market today. Find out which SD memory cards will give you the speed and capacity to capture all of your photos and videos with ease!

Fujifilm X-T5 – Amazon / Adorama / B&H

See my list of some of the Must-Have Accessories for the Fujifilm X-T5.

Best SD Memory Cards Fujifilm X-T5

If you need a trustworthy SD card to make the most of your Fujifilm X-T5 camera, this guide has all the information needed to choose the best memory card for maximum performance and affordability.

What You Need To Know

The Fujifilm X-T5 has a dual memory card configuration for UHS-II cards. You can still use UHS-I cards which will be fine for casual photography or shooting at lower video bitrates of 200Mbps and under.

If you want to use the highest video bitrate the camera offers, you’ll need a v90 UHS-II card to guarantee performance at 720Mbps. A lot of YouTubers don’t shoot at the highest bitrate and you’ll need to decide what bitrate is right for you. V60 cards will support bitrates up to 480Mbps.

For photographers, pick the fastest memory card for your shooting style. If you burst a lot and need that buffer cleared as quickly as possible, go with the v90 cards, otherwise, v60 cards are fine, or even U3 UHS-I cards. There are even new UHS-I cards by Sandisk that offer very fast read speeds which come in handy when transferring files.

Recommended Memory Cards

Photographers that need maximum performance will benefit from the v90 cards. Videographers only need v90 cards if they are shooting at the 720Mbps bitrate. Otherwise, v60 cards are the better deal.

Currently, I’m pulling the in-camera speed scores from the X-H2s benchmarks until I can get my hands on the X-T5.

Fujifilm X-T5 Memory Card Benchmarks

I have not been able to get my hands on this camera yet, however, I have benchmarked the X-H2s which has similar UHS-II hardware inside. You can use these benchmarks to get an idea of how the various brands perform in the latest Fujifilm cameras.

I’ve been having many issues with some of the latest V90 cards not performing to speed in various cameras. Sometimes it’s just the pins that don’t make full contact, however, in some cameras, I’ve checked and double-checked and just can’t get the right speeds out of the v90 cards. Most memory card brands actually only come from a few different factories, I’m assuming new V90 cards and the memory card controllers are maybe dropping some older legacy interfaces which some cameras are still using.

For now, use this chart to make sure you get the right card. Lexar and Sony would be my top two picks. Delkin Black had an issue with the X-H2s which I think was just from bad pin contacts because the Delkin Prime card worked fine and has been working in other cameras with these issues. I’ll confirm if I can ever get an X-T5 to test, they are all out of stock everywhere.

 Fujifilm X-T5 Memory Card-Related Specs

Best Memory Cards For Video

Trying to pick the best sd cards for video can be tricky since cameras and cards don’t describe their speeds in the same way. Cameras using bitrates like to refer to speeds in megabits whereas memory cards like to refer to speeds in megabytes. It’s honestly the dumbest and most frustrating thing these companies are doing and it creates a ton of confusion.

There is a difference between H.265 and H.264. H.265 files have better compression so you’ll get better colors and compression with the same bitrate vs H.264, but many computers can struggle with the H.265 codec. H.264, is a lot easier to work with on older or mid-range to older editing machines.

A chart listing the bitrates of Fujifilm X-T5, the numbers written in megabytes, the speed class required as well as the record times you can expect to get out of each size of memory card.

There is no difference between 4k vs 8k vs 1080p when it comes to the file sizes. The size of the files is entirely based on the bitrate.

Alternatively, you can use the bitrate calculator.

Tips For Avoiding Counterfeit Cards

I haven’t heard of people having issues with counterfeit cards lately, but if you buy cards from random people on eBay, or a random distributor on Amazon, you could still have issues. 

Usually, counterfeit cards have hacked memory controllers that tell the camera or computer that the flash that’s in the card is different than what’s actually there. What this means is these cards might say they are 128GB cards, but only have 64 or 32 GB of memory. The card will run fine, for days or weeks but once you try to store more memory than there are the card breaks.

When you first buy cards, fill them up completely and make sure they get at least close to the rated speed without crashing. Also, make sure the speeds are what they should be by doing some bursts or recording with a high bitrate to test the speeds. In some countries, you might need to go to the camera store to do these tests since they may not have great return policies. With B&H, Adorama, or Amazon, you can pretty much return anything within the return period. 

Best SD Card Fujifilm X-T5

I’ll have benchmarks soon. I’ll be personally buying this camera eventually to replace my X-T3 and I should be able to provide the actual benchmarks at that time. Until then, you can use the test results from the X-H2s. Most of the Fujifilm cameras use pretty similar hardware when it comes to communicating with the memory cards and the different cameras often display the share the same characteristics.

For now, my recommended cards are Lexar, Prograde, and Sony, Delkin is usually fine and the Wise cards also performed well.

UHS-I U3 cards are actually great for shooting video at 200Mbps since you can get large-capacity cards for a really good price.