Lexar Gold CFexpress Type-A Memory Card Review

The Lexar Professional CFexpress Type A Gold Series CFexpress Type-A memory card is the premium addition to Lexar’s lineup of professional memory cards. Designed for creators who demand top-tier performance, this CFexpress memory card offers impressive features and performance.

Lexar Gold CFexpress Type-A Memory Card

Lexar Gold CFexpress Type-A memory card comes in sizes from 80GB to 320GB
Tested Write Speed: 825 MB/s
Tested Read Speed: 886 MB/s
Tested Sustain: 817MB/s

Limited 10-Year Manufacturer Warranty.

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Lexar has sent me this card, and the benchmarks look great.

Lexar 320GB Benchmarks

The new Lexar 320GB card is actually running a little faster than the 160GB Lexar card, which was already the fastest CFxA card, so it’s good to see Lexar breaking its own records.

This card is also VPG 400-rated. This rating is similar to the v90 or v60 ratings with our UHS-II cards, except this new rating guarantees a 400MB/s write speed. This new car also comes with a minimum sustained speed of 700MB/s.

The Lexar CFxA 320GB card can be bundled with the Lexar CFxA reader, a nice reader with the new interface for the UHS-II cards. Remember, for a long time, Sandisk had those 170MB/s cards, but nobody could get those speeds? This new reader allows you to get those speeds. I’ve also seen improved speeds on many of the microSD cards.

Write Speed: 837MB/s

Read Speed: 885MB/s

Here is the full tracker of available cards and what I’ve been able to benchmark. There are now some higher-capacity cards from some of the other brands, but I don’t have access to them yet. It does still look like Lexar cards are currently rated as the fastest.

Video Record Times With Sony Codecs

With this new 360GB card, Sony should now offer some form of RAW video recording in their high-end cameras since it never really made sense to offer that with the lower-capacity cards.

As a tech nerd, I’m getting pretty excited to see where these CFxA cards are going since Sony’s initial adoption of them with limited capacities was a little confusing. It put Sony behind all the other brands with speed and functionality, and these new higher-capacity cards are leveling the playing field for Sony.

Based on the performance we are seeing here, I could see more camera companies adopting this smaller format in the future.