At COMPUTEX 2025, we’ve seen a lot of companies showing off their new PCIe Gen 5 SSD. Kingston, the well-regarded brand in the memory industry, is one of them. This is the Kingston Fury Renegade G5 SSD, a PCIe Gen 5 x4 SSD that claims to peak at 14.7GB/s read speed.
So, does this SSD live up to its claims? Does it thermal throttle? Let’s find out in today’s review.
The unboxing experience is… fairly basic. The box itself has some details and we have the 2TB version with us today. Once we open up the box, we only get the SSD itself. There is no additional heatsink – but that’s okay since we’re going to use the motherboard’s SSD heatsink instead.
The 2TB SSD is single-sided so you can use this in many laptops without worrying about it being too thick. It is also using a Silicon Motion controller with the model number SM2508G AC, a low-powered PCIe Gen 5×4 SSD controller, paired with a Micron DRAM which I have no idea what it is since I can’t get anything by searching the number on the chip.
The NAND flash chip is by Kingston but I also can’t find any official data sheet about it.
Once installed into our testbench, we can now begin the tests. CrystalDiskMark showed us the amazing speeds that this SSD can achieve, just 100MB/s shy of their what Kingston claimed on the box. The write speed is what surprised us as it can also reach 14GB/s in sequential writes.
Other benchmarks like ATTO and AS SSD are as shown on the screen. Overall, this SSD is just amazing since it can still get 10GB/s in sequential read/write test on AS SSD.
One of the more intense test is this – the AIDA64 linear write benchmark. Here, we can see the speed is going up to 10GB/s at first, but when the cache is full, it drops to around 3.7GB/s first, then dropping further down to around 2.5GB/s and maintained that speed throughout the entire test.
This SSD is indeed very commendable given that the speed is still at around 2.5GB/s when the cache is full. That means even if we manage to fill up the cache during our day-to-day usage, the we probably won’t notice the performance drop.
The temperature during our testing is only at around 55°C at most and that is still safe considering that the thermal limit is at around 75°C for most SSDs. Remember, we’re only using the motherboard’s heatsink to cool down the SSD and there is minimal airflow going across since it’s on an open testbench.
As for the value of the SSD, we calculated the price per gigabyte and came up with this. It’s based on Amazon’s retail price before any discounts. Honestly by looking at this, everything scales properly. While the 4TB variant has better price per gigabyte value, it’s just expensive.
My recommendation is to just get as whatever capacity you need. If you need and can afford the 4TB variant, then go for it.
And that’s all that we have to share with you today. This Kingston Fury Renegade G5 PCIe Gen 5×4 SSD is great and I can recommend it to everyone without hesitation.
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