Kingston Fury Renegade G5 8 TB review - High-end PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD with more than 14,000 MB/s for gaming & workstations

[Redaktion]

As a PCIe 5.0 x4 SSD of the current generation, the Kingston Fury Renegade G5 with 8 TB delivers transfer rates beyond the 14,000 MB/s mark. In the test, the top model impresses with outstanding performance, even if there remains a non-performance-related disadvantage.

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[Load big LLMs faster]

Loading Gpt-Oss-120B LLM from a SATA drive will take 60000 MB / 500 MB/s = 120 seconds = 2 min. Using this, or any PCIe 5.0, drive it's going to take only 4 to 5 seconds. And now we have a use-case for PCIe 5.0 speeds in consumer environments.