Kingston Fury Renegade G5 SSD Series Leaked, PCIe Gen 5 Design Boasts 14,800 MB/s Max. Transfers

[T0@st]

PC hardware media outlets have uncovered a not yet officially announced Kingston Fury Renegade G5 SSD product family. Promotional images and fairly detailed specifications were reportedly sourced directly from the North American manufacturer's main web presence. Three next-gen PCIe 5.0 SSD options were highlighted; likely coming soon—in quick response to Samsung's recently launched 9100 PRO Series. The South Korean megacorp's cutting-edge proprietary Presto
S4LY027-controlled offerings are considered to be the world's fastest SSDs, but this elite level of performance has arrived with substantial price tags. At several points, W1zzard's evaluation of the $300 Samsung 9100 Pro 2 TB model touched upon cost-performance considerations. Kingston's forthcoming Fury Renegade G5 4 TB, 2 TB, and 1 TB SSD NVMe M.2 2280 SKUs possess the potential to match main rivals—according to a leaked spec chart, the flagship boasts up to 14,800 MB/s read and 14,000 MB/s write speeds.

The apparent selection of Silicon Motion's SM2508 controller is a key point of interest—this "superior performance" low-power PCIe Gen 5 x4 NVMe 2.0 SSD solution was announced late last summer. September preview material painted a promising picture, in terms of promised power efficiency. By late December, a Chinese manufacturer demonstrated 14.5 GB/s sequential reads enabled by Silicon Motion's flagship controller. At CES 2025, TechPowerUp staffers documented a handful of previewed SM2508-controlled commercial products. Returning to the present day, Kingston's inadvertent self-leak did not reveal Fury Renegade G5's eventual launch window or price brackets—these facts are expected to arrive online with a possible imminent issuing of official press material.



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[TumbleGeorge]

8 TB

No.

 

[JohH]

The South Korean megacorp's cutting-edge Phison E26-controlled offerings are considered to be the world's fastest SSDs, but this elite level of performance has arrived with substantial price tags. At several points, W1zzard's evaluation of the $300 Samsung 9100 Pro 2 TB model touched upon cost-performance considerations

??? Samsung is using their own Presto controller, not Phison.

 

[Onasi]

@T0@st
There isn’t a 8TB version. Their spec slide clearly says it’s 1, 2 and 4.

 

[T0@st]

Sorry, should check my eyesight more often. Corrections made. Thanks for the pointers.
Not enough coffee, and too much cross-pollination from looking at many new models.

 

[Wirko]

looking at many new models

Many new 8TB models? I hope you aren't looking at those Aliexpress SSDs that cost $5 more for each doubling of capacity.

 

[csendesmark]

Interesting!

 

[T0@st]

Many new 8TB models? I hope you aren't looking at those Aliexpress SSDs that cost $5 more for each doubling of capacity.

Haha, no. Mostly 4 and 8 TB options on Amazon UK. Not cheap, but missed out on some interesting sale items yesterday.

 

[Bwaze]

Well, there are new 8 TB SSD drives launching. And even larger.

Most of them of course enterprise drives in U.2 format, and eye watering prices.

If we're waiting for consumer 8 TB drives to fall from where 2 and 4 TB drives are per TB - from above 75 EUR per TB to at least 50 EUR per TB (and it's still more expensive than drives were 2 years ago), U.2 drives for servers that are mostly launching now are at another level. But you can get a 32 TB drive for about 110 EUR per TB (older one, new ones are of course dearer).

Just like the Nvidia's graphics cards, storage makers have found better customers for their products than gamers and home content creators. Days of "PC Master Race" are certainly coming to an abrupt halt.

 

[Waweq]

Pretty sure they will not use their own heatsink which was not as good as Samsung's 990 pro in the GEN4 models

 

[PixelTech]

We need more DirectStorage video games.

 

[Camm]

We need more DirectStorage video games.

Has any DirectStorage game on Windows actually offered greater performance than just using I/O Completion Ports?

DirectStorage on Windows looks like a minimum effort job to port the Xbox's code with minimal adjustment for the differences of PC's from consoles.

 

[Bwaze]

There were times SSD makers advertised their new fast drives as being crucial for DirectStorage compatible games - three years ago, when PCIe 3.0 drives were releasing this was all the rage, there were warnings on how SATA drives will be too slow, so we should upgrade now! 2 second game load times!

Three years later and we only have a handful of games with support, most of them don't actually do anything with it, and there was more problems with bugs at implementation than benefits (Monster Hunter Wilds, Spider-Man 2,...).

 

[PixelTech]

@Camm @Bwaze I've seen on YouTube somewhere, maybe HBU, say that Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart has a uplift in performance, of some amount.
Also, here's a list of games that have DirectStorage, that are on Steam:

https://steamdb.info/tech/SDK/DirectStorage/

 

[blinnbanir]

@Camm @Bwaze I've seen on YouTube somewhere, maybe HBU, say that Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart has a uplift in performance, of some amount.
Also, here's a list of games that have DirectStorage, that are on Steam:

https://steamdb.info/tech/SDK/DirectStorage/

That list is longer than I expected. There are some huge Games in there. I own a few of them and will test them with my Storage to see if indeed there is a difference.

 

[PixelTech]

That list is longer than I expected. There are some huge Games in there. I own a few of them and will test them with my Storage to see if indeed there is a difference.

Wajya find out?

 

[blinnbanir]

Wajya find out?

That is for later. I am having too much fun with my new Steering wheel.

 

[Prima.Vera]

The SSD stagnation on both price and capacity is something really worrisome. Sometimes I wonder if this is not just because of the Corporations greed and rapacity, since the Enterprise models are already in the hundreds Terabytes sizes, for the right price. Offcourse.
Point is, the technology is there, but for some reasons they don't want to make drives more than 8TB, even 4, for the general consumers.
I wonder why?

 

[blinnbanir]

The SSD stagnation on both price and capacity is something really worrisome. Sometimes I wonder if this is not just because of the Corporations greed and rapacity, since the Enterprise models are already in the hundreds Terabytes sizes, for the right price. Offcourse.
Point is, the technology is there, but for some reasons they don't want to make drives more than 8TB, even 4, for the general consumers.
I wonder why?

They make way more in Enterprise vs Consumer. They do have 8TB versions. The issue with SSD is that the pricing structure is the reverse of HDD, Floppy and even DVDs. As capacity increased the cost per/gb would go down. Meanwhile in the SSD space an 8TB SSD can cost more than double of what the 4TB from the same vendor would cost. Even then it is still cheaper in most cases to create a RAID 0 drive using 2 4TB than to have 1 8 TB drive. In the Enterprise world people pay even more per gb for SSD so the money is there.

 

[TumbleGeorge]

Since 16TB M.2 NVME consumer drives are coming soon, I wouldn't say how soon so it's pointless to ask me, many 8TB models are already priced quite reasonably to this moment in the $550-800 range. Only Sabrent continues to be priced over $1000 (actually $1200) I don't know why.

 

[Bwaze]

But these are the prices we have seen 5 years ago.

There hasn't been an age in PC with such a stagnation, everything is basically in a standstill, except for marketing blurb speeds "up to", which can't even be realistically reached in home environments (sequential speeds requiring higher queue depth etc)...

 

[TumbleGeorge]

You forgot inflation today's money are weak and cheaper. If you use inflation calculator will find that today prices is lower.

 

[Bwaze]

 

[Prima.Vera]

Since 16TB M.2 NVME consumer drives are coming soon, I wouldn't say how soon so it's pointless to ask me, many 8TB models are already priced quite reasonably to this moment in the $550-800 range. Only Sabrent continues to be priced over $1000 (actually $1200) I don't know why.

Sorry, we must have a different notion of what "reasonable" means.
There is nothing reasonable to pay 800$ for a crappy 8TB drive. Nothing.

You forgot inflation today's money are weak and cheaper. If you use inflation calculator will find that today prices is lower.

Salaries are the same still.

 

[TumbleGeorge]

Salaries are the same still.

Not in my country