Usual high quality and at the Nikon D7000 very quickly

As a replacement for one of my 16GB 45MB / sec which has fallen victim to our dog (clean middle perforation, but -works still !!!) I've bought this card and have to say that I was able to achieve a noticeable speed increase.
Could I use the "old" card still 26 pictures in RAW quality shoot in series before the Verschnauf breaks were longer, creates the new map which 32! For the few EUR extra cost compared to the variant 45er- money is therefore well spent for me.
Prerequisite for the speed increase of course is that the hardware that speed also supported, and that does the D7000 fortunately.