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

We took note of the drive’s temperature during some of our benchmarking runs. Kingston's Fury Renegade G5 is another of the latest breed of Gen 5 drives that don't need a whopping great heatsink of a cooler.  We tested the drive sitting under the chunky heatsink of the Gigabyte AORUS X670E Xtreme motherboard, which our test rig uses.

The drive has a few design features to combat the Achilles heel of high-end Gen5 drives, which is heat generation. Chief amongst these is the Silicon Motion SM2508 controller, which uses a TSMC 6nm process, unlike the 12nm process that previous generation controllers used, which allows better thermal management.
It works well enough, as the hottest the drive got while benchmarking was 36° C during a CrystalDiskMark 8 Sequential Write QD1-32 T1 test run. For the bulk of our testing, the drive averaged 31° C, with the 4K focused tests averaging 27° C, both of these averages a long way from the 70° C maximum operating temperature of the drive.

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