Kingston Fury Renegade G5 2TB Gen5 SSD Review

1. Introduction2. Kingston Fury Renegade G5 2TB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. 128KB Sequential Performance8. 4K Random Read v QD Performance9. 4K Random Write v QD Performance10. 4K 70/30 Mixed Performance11. 4K Random Performance QD1-QD812. Throughput13. PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark14. 3DMark Storage Benchmark 15. Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker Official Benchmark16. Temperatures17. Real Life File Testing18. Closing Thoughts19. View All Pages

The PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark uses a wide-ranging set of real-world traces from popular applications and common tasks to fully test the performance of the fastest modern drives. The benchmark is designed to measure performance of fast system drives using the SATA bus at the low end and devices connected via PCI Express at the high end.

The goal of the benchmark is to show meaningful real-world performance differences between fast storage technologies such as SATA, NVMe, and Intel’s Optane. The Full System Drive Benchmark uses 23 traces, running 3 passes with each trace. It typically takes an hour to run.

Traces used:

Booting Windows 10.
Adobe Acrobat – starting the application until usable.
Adobe Illustrator – starting the application until usable Adobe Premiere Pro – starting the application until usable.
Adobe Photoshop – starting the application until usable.
Battlefield V – starting the game until the main menu.
Call of Duty Black Ops 4 – starting the game until the main menu.
Overwatch – starting the game until main menu.
Using Adobe After Effects.
Using Microsoft Excel.
Using Adobe Illustrator.
Using Adobe InDesign.
Using Microsoft PowerPoint.
Using Adobe Photoshop (heavy use).
Using Adobe Photoshop (light use).
cp1 Copying 4 ISO image files, 20 GB in total, from a secondary drive to the target drive (write test).
cp2 Making a copy of the ISO files (read-write test).
cp3 Copying the ISO to a secondary drive (read test).
cps1 Copying 339 JPEG files, 2.37 GB in total, to the target drive (write test).
cps2 Making a copy of the JPEG files (read-write test).
cps3 Copying the JPEG files to another drive (read test).

When tested using the Adobe startup traces in PCMark10's Full System Drive benchmark, the drive produced an average of 397MB/s for the six tests. The fastest of these tests was the Premiere Pro trace, at 509MB/s, while the slowest was the Lightroom startup trace, at 307MB/s.

Switching over to the Adobe usage traces, the drive averaged 767MB/s, which includes the 1,593MB/s result for the Adobe Photoshop heavy usage trace. The slowest of the five traces was the InDesign trace at 350MB/s.

The three gaming traces produced an average result of 1,283MB/s, the fastest being Battlefield V at 1,735MB/s, next came Call Of Duty Black Ops 4 at 1,412MB/s and last and quite some way back, Overwatch at 703MB/s.

The drive averaged 3,964MB/s for the six file transfer tests, the fastest being 7,081MB/s for the cp1 write test.

Kingston's Fury Renegade G5 slots straight into to top spot in the overall bandwidth chart with a test result of 845.97MB/s.

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