Of course, clock speed isn’t everything when it comes to RAM and those in the know will have already recognized from the spec sheet that the Kingston Fury Renegade will have a hard time with its relatively loose timings and Hynix DJR memory chips. It is all the more surprising that DDR4-5333 can actually be run almost effortlessly with this kit on our test platform. Kingston’s special PCB design is probably responsible for a large part of this, as it ensures reproducible stability even at high clock rates on the Intel Rocket Lake platform, provided that the corresponding combination of CPU and motherboard is used.
Apart from the too short thermal pads, the design of the heatsink is also convincing, both functionally and visually. More than 10 °C lower temperatures in our heat test combined with a stylish black design without unnecessary light effects make this heatspreader a little highlight for me personally. I would also like to explicitly praise Kingston for making the XMP profiles with all timings and even the rank topology of the modules transparent in the data sheet, which clearly sets it apart from other RAM manufacturers.
In the synthetic benchmarks, which are also representative of performance in compute-intensive workloads, the Fury Renegade Kit consistently holds its own and even narrowly takes first place in Geekbench 3. And while the gaming performance doesn’t quite continue at that level, the Fury Renegade sticks are really anything but slow, especially when you take advantage of the lush OC potential in the timings. By the way, there is also a dual-rank SKU, which should be much more efficient here and not really much slower at DDR4-4600.
Although the Fury Renegade 5333 Mbps kit at just under 350 Euros is not really cheaper than B-Die based alternatives, these simply don’t clock as high, certainly not in XMP. In the end, the latter is only a predefined profile for light OC by the RAM manufacturer and that Kingston can already offer this clock rate and timings at this price is really quite impressive. Yes, you sacrifice some latency in favor of bandwidth with DJR, but those looking for the fastest memory for the current Intel Rocket Lake platform will seriously have to take a look at this kit. Whether the upcoming Alder Lake platform will really support DDR4 pin-compatible, how big the gap to DDR5 really is and if kits like the one tested today will stay relevant remains to be seen.
The RAM kit was provided by Kingston without obligation. There was no obligation to publish. Moreover, there was no influence on the tests and their results.
Kingston FURY Renegade DIMM Kit 16GB, DDR4-5333, CL20-30-30 (KF453C20RBK2/16)
 | Lieferzeit 8 Werktage | 488,00 €*Stand: 19.04.24 17:20 |
- 1 - Introduction and SKUs
- 2 - Packaging and looks
- 3 - SPD and heatsink performance
- 4 - Teardown and PCB analysis
- 5 - Test systems and methodology
- 6 - XMP compatibility and overclocking
- 7 - Synthetic benchmarks – AIDA64 and Geekbench 3
- 8 - Gaming – Cyberpunk 2077 in UHD, QHD, FHD
- 9 - Final thoughts and conclusion
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