The Kingston FURY Renegade PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD, Kingston top-of-the-line SSD, is aimed at gamers, enthusiasts and high-power users. It comes in a M.2 2280 form factor with Gen 4×4 NVMe PCIe interface, based on 3D NAND TLC chips and a Phison E18 controller.

There are four different versions available in different storage capacities of 500GB, 1TB, 2TB and 4TB and comes with a low-profile graphene aluminum heat spreader with a weight of only 9.7 grams (2TB-4TB variant).

Kingston Fury Renegade SSD with Heatsink review

There is also a model that comes with a heatsink. Our review model is the 2TB version with heatsink, meant for better cooling. Kingston claims sequential read speeds that can reach upto 7,300 Mbps and sequential write speeds of 7,000 Mbps on this model.

The SSD is rated for an MTTF (Meant time to failure) of 1,800,000 hours, with operating temperatures of 0 to 70 degrees Celsius and is backed by a 5-year warranty.

A big thank you to Kingston for sending us this review unit.

Highlights

PCIe Gen 4×4 NVMe performance
Low-profile graphene aluminium heat spreader
Slim M.2 2280 form factor
High capacities of up to 4TB
PS5 ready

Specifications

Capacity	500GB, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB
Form Factor	M.2 2280
Operating Temperature	0°C ~ 70°C
Controller	Phison E18
Interface	PCIe 4.0 NVMe
Sequential read/write	500GB – 7,300/3,900MB/s 1TB – 7,300/6,000MB/s 2TB – 7,300/7,000MB/s 4TB – 7,300/7,000MB/s
Random 4K read	500GB – up to 450,000/900,000 IOPS 1TB – up to 900,000/1,000,000 IOPS 2TB – up to 1,000,000/1,000,000 IOPS 4TB – up to 1,000,000/1,000,000 IOPS
Endurance	500GB – 500TBW 1TB – 1.0PBW 2TB – 2.0PBW 4TB – 4.0PBW
MBTF	1,800,000 hours
Weight	500GB-1TB – 32.1g 2TB-4TB – 34.9g
Dimensions	80mm x 23.67mm x 10.5mm
Warranty	5 years

Unboxing

The Kingston Fury Renegade comes in the usual Kingston cardboard packaging with a plastic blister, to keep the drive safe during shipping. The SSD comes in the M.2 2280 form factor, 80mm x 23.67mm x 10.5mm in size and weighs 34.9 grams (2TB-4TB variant). The SSD larger and heavier than the standard Renegade SSD due to the added heatsink and you may find it harder to install on gaming laptops and smaller PC’s but fits great on standard gaming PC’s and the Playstation 5.

The package also includes a serial to Acronis True Image HD software for backups, archiving and recovery.

The Kingston Fury Renegade comes in the M.2 format and connects over a PCI-Express 4 x4 interface. This format is approximately twice as faster than PCIe 3.0, the Kingston Fury Renegade PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 2TB SSD is capable of both high speed read and transfer rates, as well as faster access times.

Performance

For the performance tests we have used the following hardware. On paper, performance should be 7,300MB/s in sequential reading and 7,000MB MB/s in writing, along with 1,000,000 IOPS.

The Kingston Fury Renegade is also backward compatible with PCIe Gen 3 but will only operate at Gen 3 speeds.

Test Bench

Intel Core i9-12900K
Asus ROG Maximus Z690 HERO
NVIDIA RTX 3070 GPU
Kingston Fury Beast DDR5-6000 32GB RAM
Kingston Fury Renegade 2TB SSD

After formatting the drive, we are left with 1.86TB of free space. During tests, the Kingston Fury Renegade performed extremely well. Transferring and reading files, booting the system and loading games is amazingly quick with this SSD.

In our Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker test, a benchmark that simulates game load time, the Kingston Fury Renegade SSD came out with an impressive load time of 7.5 seconds.

When copying files during everyday use, the speeds are in the range of 1,300-1,900 MB/s, depending on the size of files. In CrystalDiskMark, the Fury Renegade comes out with 6,962MB/s and 6,870 MB/s in sequential reading and writing. In ATTO Disk we see rates above 6,885 MB/s in reading and 6,455 MB/s in writing.

CrystalDiskmark Read	6,962 MB/s
CrystalDiskmark Write	6,870 MB/s
ATTODisk Read	6,885 MB/s
ATTODisk Write	6,455MB/s

The Kingston Fury Renegade maintained stable temperatures between 40-45 degrees during work tasks. And while gaming and on load it went up to a maximum of 65 degrees.

Software

The Kingston SSD Manager can be downloaded from Kingston’s website, which can help with monitoring temperature, drive health, status, and disk usage and also update firmware as and when they are released. The utility also allows to tune the drive depending on the workload.

Conclusion

The Kingston Fury Renegade is the fastest PCIe Gen 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD drives we’ve tested and is optimised to reduce game and application load times, stream and capture with ease and give your system an overall boost in responsiveness. However, the high-capacity variants can get super expensive.