Best Memory Cards For Panasonic S9 – Real Benchmarks

Choosing SD memory cards for the Panasonic S9 is fairly straightforward, but there are a few restrictions you’ll need to consider.

The Panasonic S9 has a memory card size limit of 512GB.

There’s only one SD memory card slot and you can use up to UHS-II V90 cards.

If you’re just buying this camera for video, V90 UHS-II SD cards are completely unnecessary, as the camera has a max bitrate of 200Mbps. This would be 25MB/s, so an SD UHS-I U3 card would be totally fine for video.

However, I recommend a V60 UHS-II card to give yourself some headroom and improve performance when shooting stills. If you’re bursting a lot with stills photography, then a V90 card could be useful.

Recommended Memory Cards Panasonic S9

I tested all the UHS-II SD cards I had for this camera and here are some results from the top card.

This camera has only a single SD card slot, so be sure to get a reputable card just for some peace of mind. If I were you, I would probably buy a Sony Tough V60 card. The only downside to those cards is that they don’t have the write protection switch.

Panasonic S9 Memory Card Speed & Buffer Test

Here is the list of the full benchmarks tested in the Panasonic S9.

Ignore the poor results on some of those V90 cards. One of the pins was dirty on the Sandisk card, which I didn’t catch when doing the test. SanDisk is usually a great card and top performer. Check out more SD card performance tests, including PC benchmarks.