CONCLUSION

   In case you haven’t noticed the compact heatsink used by Kingston with their FURY Renegade line is pretty much identical to what Lexar has used with their NM800 PRO line so they both do a great job with reducing thermal throttling as much as possible during very heavy/intensive workloads like the SNIA ones in my charts. Aside helping with temperatures, the heatsink is also PlayStation 5 compatible so that’s another plus if you’re looking to get an SSD for your console. As for performance the FURY Renegade 2TB model does extremely well and even though i wasn’t able to surpass 7000MB/s in average performance it’s clearly one of the fastest models to arrive in the lab, to date. The FURY Renegade may not excel in some of the “light” workload tests as you can see from the charts but it does come up on top in the “heavy” ones so it really comes down to what your use will be for this SSD (especially in terms of long writes).

   Retailing for USD244.99 inside the USA (Amazon.com) and for around 250Euros inside the EU the heatsink version (SFYRDK/2000G) of the FURY Renegade 2TB PCIe 4.0 Gen4 M.2 NVMe SSD by Kingston lands between several similar performance drives. Overall, the FURY Renegade is a great SSD, yes it may not be the fastest out there but thanks to its SNIA results it could be the ideal drive, either during heavy workloads or long gaming sessions with your PS5 and for that it gets the Platinum Award.

PROS

- Excellent Performance Levels
- Endurance (2000TBW / 1.8 Million Hours MTBF)
- Available With / Without PS5 Compatible Heatsink
- Limited Thermal Throttling (Heatsink)
- Acronis Disk Cloning Software (Serial)
- 5 Year Limited Warranty

CONS

- Price (For Some)