Back in March, Kingston reached out to me about their FURY product lines and asked if I would be willing to review any of their items. They were launching the new DDR5 FURY Renegade Pro modules and while I don’t have a DDR5 computer, I was excited at the opportunity to test out an upgrade to 32GB of DDR4 RAM. They also offered to let me try out the FURY Renegade SSD. Thank you to Kingston for providing me a 2TB sample for this review, although it’s important to note that all the thoughts below are my own. You can purchase your FURY Renegade from Kingston now.

First things first, let’s talk about the specs. The FURY Renegade is a PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD. It does have the option of having a heat sink but I decided to go without it for height concerns. Kingston advertises that the drive can reach up to 7,300/7,000 MB/s in read/write and up to 1,000,000 IOPS. You can get it in various capacities ranging from 500GB up to 4TB. I do also want to note that the drive is compatible with the PS5 if you’re looking to upgrade the storage on that.

So, how did the FURY Renegade SSD perform in my tests? Well, I installed it in my wife’s computer since it actually has a PCIe 4.0 slot while mine is only a PCIe 3.0 slot. It was working with a Ryzen 7 5800X, an NVIDIA RTX 3060, and 16GB of DDR4 RAM running at 3200 MHz. Her computer was running a 512GB PCIe 3.0 drive from Micron and I ran the same tests as best I could on both drives. I ran them on the Micron, cloned the Micron to the FURY Renegade (you get to use Kingston’s cloning software for free with purchase), removed the Micron and installed the FURY Renegade in the PCIe 4.0 slot, and then ran the same benchmark tests. I also timed the loading of Guild Wars 2 and the loading of Civilization VI for my real-world tests.

When we look at the results from the tests on AS SSD Benchmark, the FURY Renegade demolishes the Micron! The scores for the 4K test aren’t as big a deal but the Sequential tasks and 4K-64Thrd tests are massively different!