A Closer Look

A quick look at the Kingston Fury Renegade RGB Limited Edition after removing it from the packaging, it has no resemblance to the current Renegade or Beast series. Kingston mentions that the design is inspired by "racecars," The heatspreaders are supposed to give an "aerodynamic" look as well. That being said, it certainly looks different.


On one side is the Kingston Fury logo.


On one side of each DIMM module is the identification sticker listing the SKU and not much else. Normally these stickers have the XMP operating frequency and its corresponding voltage. Kingston does not have an easy-to-read format.


Laying the DIMMs on the side, you can see "Fury" written in black on one corner. The entire plastic strip in the middle will be illuminated when the system is powered on, and lighting can be controlled with supported ASUS Aura Sync, GIGABYTE RGB Fusion, MSI Mystic Light Sync, and ASRock Polychrome Sync motherboard software.


The Kingston Fury Renegade RGB LE DDR5-8000 Z-Height is 46 mm after rounding up with calipers and weighs in at 63 g on the scale.


After taking the heat spreader off, we see that these are single-sided DIMMs with eight (24 Gbit) 3 GB ICs. Included is the standard thermal pad that covers all the memory ICs. This particular kit does have coverage for the PMIC and surrounding components as well.


Currently, Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix are the three suppliers of DDR5 ICs. However, only Micron / Spectek and SK Hynix have released Non-Binary 3 GB ICs to the consumer market. Both of which may "perform" worse than their 2 GB counterparts at the same frequency due to different primary and sub-timings. So far, Micron 3 GB ICs have shown to reach at least 7000 MT/s, while SK Hynix is much higher at 8400 MT/s+.

A closer look at the ICs shows that these are SK Hynix (H5CGD8MGBD-X021). Which can be abbreviated to SK Hynix 3 GB M-Die, not to be confused with SK Hynix's first DDR5 M-Die (2 GB) in 2021. Up until the release of (24 Gbit) 3 GB ICs, the previous world record crown was held by SK Hynix A-Die (16 Gbit) 2 GB, which is still considered a good choice for high frequency overclocks paired with lower primary timings, only to be outdone by the SK Hynix 3 GB variant for highest frequency.


With DDR5, one of the major changes is how the motherboard directly provides 5 V to the memory module's PMIC, which is then stepped down and split accordingly. No longer is the motherboard responsible for regulating the voltages, as with DDR4. The PMIC has the part number "OP=AL HG1," software reports Richtek being the manufacturer.