Performance
Performance has been tested on the Intel platform, including the Core Ultra 7 265K processor, ASRock Z890I Nova motherboard, Colorful RTX4080 Advanced OC 16GB graphics card, Kingston Renegade 2TB NVMe SSD, and FSP 1350W 80+ Platinum PSU.
All results were performed on the FURY Renegade RGB Limited Edition 48GB DDR5-8000 memory kit. Our overclocking limit was DDR5-8400, but overclocking is not guaranteed. At this clock, the FURY Renegade could run at relatively tight timings like CL38-48-48 and slightly higher voltages than in XMP profiles – 1.50V VDD/VDDQ.
Let’s begin the tests.
The Limited Edition memory scales about the same as the recently reviewed Kingston CUDIMM, except for a lower maximum overclock. We can still reach 8400MT/s, the best result in synthetic AIDA64 tests.
Even though Intel released a new microcode, it didn’t help with memory latency, and we still see lower-than-expected results. It’s not the memory kit’s fault. On the other hand, if we compare the Renegade LE results to other memory series, then it still beats everything else out of the box.
The difference in synthetic bandwidth and latency tests does not always tell the whole story, so let’s examine other tests.
PCMark 10 Applications benchmark shows differences in popular Microsoft Office. As in the last Kingston memory review, the Word test shows the most significant performance gains because of higher memory frequency. Other tests also react well, but we can also see that XMP at 7200MT/s is already pretty fast.
3DMark tests don’t show much difference in all settings. This is notable if we participate in competitive overclocking; otherwise, it looks close to an error margin.
The latest Cinebench 2024 shows high performance in all our settings. Much larger workloads should give us better results at faster RAM settings during longer rendering tasks.
Final Fantasy XV and Superposition results are barely different. RAM helps in the FF XV benchmark, but the difference between the slowest and fastest settings is not high. These older tests scale better with CPU performance than RAM.
In modern games at 1440p and high display settings, we can see between 6 and 8 FPS gain going from 6400MT/s to 8000MT/s. The overclocking gives us up to 1 FPS more, which suggests it may not be worth wasting our time on all the stability tests and manual settings.
Kingston FURY Renegade LE gives optimal results at the XMP profile so that we can enjoy our favorite games without the hassle of manual tuning. Overclocking may help some more, but mainly at lower display resolutions, which have gotten less popular in recent years.
I will tell you more about the FURY Renegade LE memory overclocking on the next page.
