Performance
Performance has been tested on the AMD Ryzen platform, which contains the Ryzen 9 7950X CPU, Gigabyte X870E Pro ICE WiFi7 motherboard, Kingston FURY Renegade RGB 96GB DDR5-6400 CL32 memory kit, and Gigabyte RTX5070Ti graphics card. All tests were performed in a Windows 11 Pro x64 environment with the latest updates.
As usual, I will start with the ATTO Disk Benchmark. It’s one of the most popular storage benchmarks, and the results are easy to compare at home.
Our ATTO benchmark results are the best we have seen on a consumer-grade SSD. The read bandwidth is up to 13.92GB/s while the write bandwidth is up to 13.24GB/s. Both results may not seem as high as specified, but barely any SSDs reach the specified values in this benchmark. Still, the Renegade G5 is the fastest we’ve seen.
There were much better results in CrystalDiskMark, where we could reach 14875MB/s read and 14184MB/s write. Most competitive SSDs are closer to a flat 14GB/s. What is significantly better is the low queue of 4K random reads, which is important for workloads like gaming. The Renegade G5 can go up to 110GB/s on Intel chipsets; on AMD, it’s lower, up to 102MB/s. It’s 20-30% more than most competitive SSDs!
CrystalDiskMark also shows us exceptional results in random operations. Kingston specified the FURY Renegade G5 at 2.2 million IOPS, while we couldn’t reach it on our AMD test rig. Intel Z890 motherboards showed slightly better bandwidth, up to 2.15M IOPS. Either way, it’s the highest single SSD results we have seen!
Let’s look at UL PCMark series benchmarks. In these tests, we can see how the SSD performs in a mixed load environment, which simulates a real-world workload.
The results in PCMark 10 are excellent. Not many SSDs can pass 1000MB/s in the data drive benchmark, not to mention 1288MB/s! Again, all scores are the best we have seen.
The 3DMark Storage Benchmark confirms the FURY Renegade G5’s great performance. One more time, our result is the best we could achieve on a single SSD and the test rig we used.
Anvil’s Storage Utilities is an older benchmark but still popular, so why not use it?
The Blackmagic storage benchmark focuses on decoding performance, giving us a different perspective.
The Renegade G5 beat our last best bandwidth by over 1GB/s! What’s most important is that it handles all the decoding formats.
The last tests will be random read and write in the AIDA64 Disk Benchmark. These tests take about 32 minutes each on the FURY Renegade G5, so slightly less time than on the competitive SSD from the highest series.
Random read bandwidth reached an average of about 3.38GB/s, while random write bandwidth reached an average of as high as 3.98GB/s. Both results are amazing, considering they’re both random operations. However, the best in this benchmark remains the PCIe 4.0 version of Kingston Renegade.
The FURY Renegade G5 performed well in all our tests. It’s definitely an excellent option for power users and demanding gamers.
