Kingston’s Renegade gaming DDR5 memory devices are popular for their performance, with speed options from 6000 MHz to 8400 MHz. We got a chance to try out the Kingston Fury Renegade DDR5 6800MHz 32GB (2 x 16GB), and here are our thoughts about it.
Design
Kingston mentions that the new Renegade DDR5 memories come with a familiar but newly designed and stylish aluminium heat spreader. The heat spreader features a black/silver, or white/silver color combination.
Apart from the stylish heat spreader, the Kingston Fury Renegade logo is located at the middle portion (front-facing), along with the mention of “DDR5” at the bottom right side. We should also mention that the Renegade RGB DDR5 memory modules use black-colored PCB boards.
Kingston also mentions that the new Renegade DDR5 RGB memories come with a new light bar, featuring 12 LEDs with support for Kingston’s Infrared Sync Technology for a fully synchronized RGB lighting effect that matches your system. While Kingston already provides the FURY CTRL application to customize the RGB lighting effects, gamers will also be able to use other manufacturers solutions, which include the MSI Mystic Light Sync, ASUS AURA Sync, Gigabyte RGB Fusion 2.0, and more.
Performance
While Kingston offers the Renegade RGB DDR5 memory modules in 6000 MHz, 6400 MHz, 6800 MHz, 7200 MHz, 7600 MHz, 8000 MHz, and 8400 MHz speeds, we got the 6800 MHz speed version. This particular model comes either in a single 16GB module or as a 32GB model (kit of 2 x 16GB).The DRAM density is 16Gbit. According to Thaiphoon Burner application, our review sample features Hynix DRAM chips.
Our testbed consists of the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X processor, along with the ASUS ROG Crosshair X670 Hero motherboard, a 1TB WD SN580 SSD, an XFX Radeon RX 5700XT GPU, and an XFX 1000W PSU. At the time of testing the Renegade RGB DDR5 memories, we did not have any of the latest high-end GPUs at our disposal, so do forgive us for using a 6-year-old GPU. That said, we still did a series of CPU-specific benchmarks and GPU-intensive tests too.
This included Cinebench 2024, 3DMark FireStrike, TImeSpy, and CPU tests. The memory latency used here is CL16, and the supported memory profile is 36-42-42 at 1.4V power. We selected the default DDR5 Expo profile from our testbed BIOS that includes its native 6800 MHz speeds and CL16 as the latency. Check out the scores below. From our AIDA64 Cache and Memory benchmark, we got a latency performance of 80.4 ns.
From our CineBench 2024 CPU benchmark, we got a score of 1111 points for the multi-core test, and 118 points for the single-core test.
From the 3DMark benchmarks, our CPU profile score includes 8764 points for maximum threads, 8748 points for 16 threads, 6693 points for 8 threads, 3800 points for 4 threads, 2068 points for 2 threads, and 1097 points for a single thread. We also got a score of 25555 points for FireStrike, 12814 points for FireStrike Extreme, and 9719 points for TimeSpy test. Keep in mind that these scores are when using the RX 5700 XT GPU.
Based on the scores above, it’s evident that the Fury Renegade RGB DDR5 6800MHz is good for both gaming and professional workloads.
Verdict
If you are looking for a high-speed DDR5 memory to upgrade your existing system or while building a new one, we recommend the new Kingston Renegade DDR5 RGB model with 6800 MHz speeds. The new memory modules come with a redesigned heat spreader, and the PCB is black in color. For customizing the RGB light bars, the memory comes with support for FURY CTRL application and other third-party apps.
From our Thaiphoon Burner memory assessments, our review samples use Hynix DRAM chips. The memory module comes with CL16 as its latency. From our benchmark tests, we got a latency of 80.4 ns, when running the AIDA64 cache test. We also got impressive scores when running CineBench 2024, 3DMark tests, and more.
