Kingston Fury Renegade G5 8TB SSD Review

1. Introduction2. Kingston Fury Renegade G5 8TB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. 128KB Seq 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 high-end Gen 5 drives that don't need a whopping great heatsink or cooler. We tested the drive sitting under the 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 rather than the 12nm process used by previous-generation controllers, enabling better thermal management. It works well enough, as the hottest the drive got while benchmarking was 40° C during a CrystalDiskMark 8 default Write test run. For the bulk of our testing, the drive averaged 35° C, with the 4K-focused tests averaging 30° C, both well below the drive's 70° C maximum operating temperature.

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