Tuesday, May 20th 2025

PNY Shows Off Gaming-grade microSD Express Card for Gaming Handhelds
PNY at the 2025 Computex showcased its XLR8 GeForce RTX 50-series "Blackwell" graphics card lineup spanning everything from the flagship RTX 5090, down to the "game changing" GeForce RTX 5060, which just hit the shelves earlier this week. We begin our tour with the PNY EX series gaming flash memory meant for handheld gaming consoles. These MicroSD Express cards implement the SD Express standard that's based on NVMe, with a PCIe Gen 3 x1 connection at the physical layer. You get sequential read speeds of up to 890 MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 750 MB/s, both of which exceed the performance of SATA SSDs, making them fit for most game storage scenarios. The card comes win 128 GB and 256 GB sizes.
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That's also why we don't have reviews or comparisons that would say how fast they are in reality.
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