Performance
The performance has been tested on the latest AMD Ryzen platform, which contains the Ryzen 9 7950X CPU, ASUS Crosshair X670E Gene motherboard, Silicon Power XS70 1TB NVMe SSD for the OS, Kingston FURY Renegade 32GB DDR5-6400 CL32 memory kit, and Powercolor RX6800XT Red Devil graphics card. All tests were performed in Windows 11 Pro x64 environment with the latest updates.
As usual, in my storage reviews, I will start with the ATTO Disk Benchmark. It’s one of the most popular storage benchmarks, and results are easy to compare at home.
Our results in the ATTO benchmark are about the same as on the KC3000 SSD, so 6.94GB/s. It’s quite typical that this benchmark shows lower maximum bandwidth than expected.
There were much better results in CrystalDiskMark, where we could reach 7260MB/s, and randomly, the maximum bandwidth went up to the declared 7300MB/s. At this point, I have to mention that Intel chipsets won’t make much above 7GB/s, while AMD can go up to 7.3GB/s or even higher. If your SSD reaches flat 7GB/s and you have an Intel motherboard, then now you know why it won’t make more.
CrystalDiskMark also shows us exceptional results in random operations. Kingston specified the FURY Renegade at 1 million IOPS while we could pass 1.5 million in random 4K writes! This is probably the best result that we had on a single SSD in our redaction.
Let’s look at UL PCMark series benchmarks as in these tests; we can see how the SSD performs in a mixed load environment, which simulates real-world workload.
In PCMark 10, the results are excellent. Not many SSD can pass 750MB/s in the data drive benchmark. All scores are very high and close to the best scores we have seen.
3DMark Storage Benchmark confirms the great performance of the FURY Renegade. Again our result is one of the best we could achieve on a single SSD.
Anvil’s Storage Utilities is an older benchmark but still popular, so why not use it?
Our results are similar to what we’ve seen on previous Kingston SSD, while we were expecting something more. It can be related to the way how the benchmark tests storage devices. Probably it’s a good time to replace it with something newer.
The last tests will be random read and write in AIDA64 Disk Benchmark. These tests take about 20 minutes each on the FURY Renegade, so about as long as the competitive SSD from the highest series.
Random read bandwidth reached about 6.34GB/s average while random write went as high as 6.15GB/s average. Both results are amazing, considering they’re both random operations.
The FURY Renegade proved its top performance in all our tests. It’s definitely a great option for all power users and demanding gamers.
