Kingston Fury Renegade 2TB SSD (with heatsink) Review

The 3DMark Storage Benchmark uses traces recorded from popular games and gaming-related activities to measure real-world gaming performance.

Traces used –

Battlefield V
Loading Battlefield™ V from launch to the main menu.

Call of Duty Black Ops 4
Loading Call of Duty®: Black Ops 4 from launch to the main menu.

Overwatch
Loading Overwatch® from launch to the main menu.

Game Move
Copying the Steam folder for Counter-Strike®: Global Offensive from an external SSD to the system drive.

Game Recording
Recording a 1080p gameplay video at 60 FPS with OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) while playing Overwatch®.

Installing Game
Installing The Outer Worlds® from the Epic Games Launcher.

Game Saving
Saving progress in The Outer Worlds game.

In 3DMark’s Storage Test, the 2TB Fury Renegade Heatsink sits in second spot behind WD's Black SN850X Heatsink for total average access time and average bandwidth for the test run. The average game loading bandwidth for the three games (Battlefield V, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and Overwatch) the benchmark uses is 800.77MB/s with an average access time of 68µs.

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