Kingston Fury Renegade G5 4TB SSD Review - King for a Day

TweakTown Rating: 98%

Our Verdict

Kingston's Fury Renegade G5 4TB SSD is a single-sided masterpiece of PCIe Gen5 engineering and a gaming juggernaut.

Pros

• Sequential throughput performance
• Single-sided design
• Gaming performance

Cons

• None

Should you buy it?

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Introduction & Drive Details

When Kingston, the world's leading fabless memory company, sets its mind to do something they have a track record of doing it right. Kingston is almost never first to dip their toes into the water; they sit back and take note of what they can do better than the rest and then bring forth a more refined offering. This strategy has paid off in the past and is doing so this very day, with the launch of its Fury Renegade G5 SSD Series.

The Fury Renegade G5 is the memory company's first consumer PCIe Gen5 SSD. Unlike many of its competitors who tend to dive in head-first whenever new technology emerges, Kingston has been waiting for the right moment to unleash its first Gen5 flagship performance offering and is doing so with what is currently the best 8-channel Gen5 consumer controller, Silicon Motion's SM2508.

Kingston's Fury Renegade G5 4TB SSD is the third branded SM2508 controlled SSD we've reviewed to date, and in fact, our current performance champion, Micron's 4600 2TB is SM2508 controlled. What makes SMI's SM2508 controller so special is that, as far as we can tell, it's currently the most efficient 8-channel PCIe Gen5 controller while simultaneously the most powerful.

As stated, this will be the third branded SMI SM2508 controlled SSD we've encountered, but this one is different than the other two. Micron's 4600 2TB OEM SSD (current performance leader) comes arrayed with its own G9 (Ninth Generation) 3,600 MT flash, while Acer's Predator GM9000 is built with a Micron B58R 2,400MT flash array. These two SM2508-controlled SSDs perform quite differently due to their differing flash arrays. It's all about the flash, as we like to say.

Three SM2058 controlled SSDs, three different flash arrays. Kingston has chosen Kioxia's newly minted 3,600 MT BiCS 8 flash to array its Fury Renegade G5 SSD. We absolutely love this choice as we are now of the opinion that BiCS 8 is likely the best performing of its kind currently in circulation. Now, if the Fury Renegade G5 follows along the path of its predecessors, it will be arrayed with flash packaged by Kingston and also incorporate Kingston customized controller firmware, making it a truly unique offering amongst a sea of cookie-cutter alternatives.

Okay, now let's dive in and see what Kingston's Fury Renegade G5 4TB SSD can do for you by the numbers.

Drive Details

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Jon's Test System Specifications

Intel Test System

AMD Test System

Because we at TweakTown like to be first at everything whenever we can, we will present our storage performance results for the test subject on both Intel Core Ultra 200 Series and 9000 Series AMD platforms going forward for the foreseeable future. Because Intel still delivers the best real-world storage performance, our running chart will continue to be Intel-based until AMD can deliver better real-world storage performance than its rival.

Please note that we have completely retested all the 50 SSDs that comprise our comparison products using our new Intel Ultra Core 9 285K test platform. Results going forward cannot be compared with our previous 14th Gen Intel results or previous AMD results, as we've updated there as well. We believe it is important to keep our platforms current in terms of the latest hardware and operating system versions. We have also updated our OS to Windows 11 Pro 24H2. Overall, the pecking order has remained the same just at roughly 5% lower real-world performance than before.

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Sony PlayStation 5 - M.2 Storage Expansion

PS5 Read Performance

With Sony's wildly popular PlayStation 5 console now enabled for M.2 NVMe SSDs to be used as fast storage expansion, we are including results for PS5-compatible SSDs we test as a part of our reviews going forward.

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We only chart SSDs that can deliver a minimum of 5,500 MB/s read, which is Sony's original recommendation.

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Our test subject is off to a fast start, delivering the second-highest throughput we've seen from the PS5. Impressive.

Synthetic Benchmarks: CDM, Max IOPS, ATTO

CrystalDiskMark

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We employ CDM as our standard measurement for both sequential throughput and Q1T1 random read. In terms of sequential throughput, the drive's factory spec'd up to sequential throughput is given at up to 14,800/14,000 MB/s, which is more or less what we are achieving between our Intel and AMD platforms. Our contender delivers a new lab record for sequential write throughput.

Focusing on 4K Q1T1 random read, we can get a visual of exactly what we love most about BiCS 8 flash. The top two in throughput here are both BiCS 8 arrayed SSDs, and as we've explained many times, Q1T1 random read is most often the best synthetic indicator of real-world performance. Impressive.

Max IOPS

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Max 4K random performance for the Fury Renegade 4TB SSD is factory specified for up to 2.2 million IOPS for both read and write. Here, we fall a bit short, but our results are plenty good enough for our liking, especially considering our far more demanding user state of OS disk vs. empty secondary device.

ATTO

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ATTO gives us a clear picture of what transfer sizes a particular SSD favors in terms of QD4 sequential throughput. We chart 128K transfers. At a queue depth of four, the Fury Renegade G5 4TB favors sequential transfers of 512KB or larger when serving data to the host (reading) and 128KB or larger when programming (writing) data. Here our contender delivers another lab record. Outstanding.

Real-World Testing: Transfers, 3DMark SSD Gaming Test, PCM10 Storage

Transfer Rates

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Our 100GB data transfer test is not your ordinary 100GB of data, ours is a crushing mix composed of more than 62K files. Write performance random or sequential, is an infrequent operation and such, we do not consider it to be an important performance metric in the consumer space. An example being how many times a game is installed vs. how many times it's played. Excellent transfer rate - seventh best overall.

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Unlike programming (writing) data, serving data to the host (reading) is typically an important performance metric as it relates to the consumer space. Again, excellent throughput - fifth best overall.

3DMark SSD Gaming Test

UL's newest 3DMark SSD Gaming Test is the most comprehensive SSD gaming test ever devised. We consider it superior to testing against games themselves because, as a trace, it is much more consistent than variations that will occur between runs on the actual game itself. This test is the same as running the actual game, just without the inconsistencies inherent to application testing. In short, we believe that this is the world's best way to test an SSDs gaming prowess and accurately compare it against competing SSDs. The 3DMark SSD Gaming Test measures and scores the following:

• Loading Battlefield V from launch to the main menu.
• Loading Call of Duty Black Ops 4 from launch to the main menu.
• Loading Overwatch from launch to the main menu.
• Recording a 1080p gameplay video at 60 FPS with OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) while playing Overwatch.
• Installing The Outer Worlds from the Epic Games Launcher.
• Saving game progress in The Outer Worlds.
• Copying the Steam folder for Counter-Strike Global Offensive from an external SSD to the system drive.

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Gaming is a performance metric that matters to most DIY consumers, especially for the enthusiast crowd that TweakTown caters to. Now we've reached the point where results start to matter as they are a direct reflection of user experience.

This is real-world validation of what we saw synthetically indicated with CDM. Kingston's Fury Renegade G5 is the most powerful gaming SSD we've encountered to date, and not by a little, but by a lot. The most performance where it matters most. Incredible.

PCM10 Storage Tests

PCMark 10 Storage Test is the most advanced and most accurate real-world consumer storage test ever made. There are four different tests you can choose from; we run two of them. The Full System Drive Benchmark and the Quick System Drive Benchmark. The Full System Drive Benchmark writes 204 GB of data over the duration of the test. These tests directly correlate with mainstream user experience.

PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark

This test writes 204GB of data and covers a broad range of common consumer tasks, including booting Windows 10, file transfers, Adobe and Office applications, and startup times for games such as Battlefield V, COD Black Ops 4, and Overwatch. Unlike synthetic numbers, this is comprehensive real-world data, which is why we use it to rank SSDs in terms of user experience.

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A score of 7,000 here is a milestone that only two flash-based SSDs have ever been able to attain. Stunning performance here where it matters most. Kingston's Fury Renegade G5 4TB is looking powerful. Wow.

PCMark 10 Quick System Drive Benchmark

The Quick System Drive Benchmark writes 23 GB of data over the duration of the test.

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Of all the benchmarks we run, it can be argued that this one offers the best reflection of a typical consumer use case scenario. This time our contender gets bested by its Phison E26-controlled competition and the G9 arrayed Micron 4600.

Final Thoughts

It's been a long time in coming, but once again, Kingston demonstrates that it has the patience and dedication to putting out a superior product, and only doing so when the time is right has paid off. As it stands at this moment in time, Kingston's newest is the best of its kind to ever cross our test bench. Especially impressive is its gaming prowess, where the Fury Renegade G5 delivered by far the most where it matters.

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We rank SSDs in terms of overall user experience (performance where it matters most) as expressed by PCMark 10 storage and 3DMark gaming storage tests. Currently, we consider a user experience score of 15K or more to verify an SSD as a TweakTown Elite performer. With a user experience score of 22,227, Kingston's Fury Renegade G5 4TB has become our new performance champion.

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Best performance, best components, best efficiency, and best endurance have earned Kingston's Fury Renegade G5 4TB SSD our highest award. Editor's Choice.