Kingston Fury Renegade 7200MT/s 32GB DDR5 Kit Review

We have tested Fury Renegade DDR5 6400 CAS 32 kit earlier and praised it for good overclocking headroom and spot-on performance using XMP profiles. This time we are taking a look at another beast DDR5 kit from Kingston. This is Kingston Fury Renegade RGB DDR5 7200MT/s CAS 38. The main difference between RGB and non-RGB Fury Renegade is obviously the stunning RGB lighting on the RGB variant. The overall design of both variants is the same. This kit operates at 1.45V and has 2 sticks of 16GB each.

The above table shows the salient differences between the DDR4 and DDR5 modules. Some of the keynotes include 1.1V as compared to 1.2V [JEDEC stock voltage], higher densities, more banks & bank groups, provision of on-die ECC on DDR5, and PMIC on DDR5 modules.

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Among the key differences between the DDR4 and DDR5, the position of the key notch is different on both, which would mean DDR5 RAM can’t be installed on the DDR4 socket. This is despite having the same pin count. The DDR5 modules contain Power Management IC circuitry on the PCB, which was not the case with the DDR4. The PMIC enhances power supply stability. Its lower operating voltage also makes DDR5 more power-efficient than DDR4. Also, DDR5 integrates I/O resistors with CMD/ADD resistors giving a cleaner look.

DDR5 module provides two times more capacity than DDR4 by packing in more banks and bank groups. In addition, Burst Length and Prefetch are also doubled. ECC technology is also featured for data integrity.

The DDR5 kits boast higher bandwidth and frequency when compared with the DDR kits. According to ADATA, their DDR5 memory modules deliver frequencies of up to 4800MT/s and feature bandwidth of 38.4GB/s, which is 50% higher than the DDR4-3200. The maximum frequency is increased by 1.63 times compared to DDR4.

Specifications

Packing Box

This kit comes in a paperboard-made packing box that is finished in black and white colors. This kit is supported on Intel and AMD platforms, and it has a speed of 7200MT/s. You can see two labels saying FURY CTRL and Infrared Sync Technology. What are these?

Kingston FURY CTRL is software from Kingston that allows users to control the RGB lighting aspect of Kingston RGB RAM kits. It has a library of preset modes. In addition, users can define their own patterns by customizing the colors and speed of dynamic light modes. This software supports the legacy HyperX RGB memory products.

Kingston Infrared Sync is Kingston’s way of providing maximum stability and control over the displayed RGB lighting on the DDR5 kit so that effects stay in lockstep.

The back side of the packing box has a label showing the part number of this kit which is KF572C38RSAK2-32. Kingston has mentioned this kit as having high-performance DDR5 memory. This kit is compatible with:

• ASUS AURA SYNC
• GIGABYTE RGB FUSION 2.0
• MSI MYSTICSYNC LIGHT
• ASROCK POLYCHROME SYNC
• Kingston FURY CTRL

The kit is shipped inside a transparent container. We can see both sticks. The sticker and user guide are under these kits; hence not visible.

Kingston has provided:

• 1x Kingston Fury Sticker
• 1x Warranty Page

Design

Let’s take a closer look at the kit, followed by the test results. At the time of this testing, we were not aware that GIGABYTE has released a BIOS update providing support for up to 7400MT/s speed kits. Without this update, the maximum supported speed on the DDR5 kit is 7200MT/s. Hence, there is no overclocking section in this content. We will wait till GIGABYTE provides a better speed range BIOS update, and then we will try overclocking this kit.

FURY RENEGADE RGB is high-performance series from Kingston, and at the time of this writing, these kits are a premium memory solution from the manufacturer. This series is available in RGB as well as non-RGB editions. The RGB versions are further available in black & silver and White & silver colors combination. We are testing a black & silver color kit, RGB kit. Speaking of the available transfer speed, this series has:

• 6000 MT/s
• 6400 MT/s
• 6800 MT/s
• 7200 MT/s

This series has CL 32, 36, and 38 timings with complete data as mentioned below:

• 6000 MT/s, CL32, 1.350V
• 6400 MT/s, CL32, 1.40V
• 6800 MT/s, CL36, 1.450V
• 7200 MT/s, CL38, 1.450V

This series has a 16GB and 32GB capacity per stick, and they are available in a dual-channel configuration comprising 2x16GB and 2x32GB.

Let’s take a look at the sticks, starting with a statement from Kingston about this series, “Game in style with Kingston FURY™ Renegade DDR5 RGB1 memory, designed for extreme performance on next-gen DDR5 platforms. Give your system the performance boost and flair needed to stay on top with ultra-fast memory up to 7200MT/s* and utilizing FURY CTRL™, 18 customizable RGB lighting effects.

Kingston FURY Renegade DDR5 RGB features sleek, newly designed black & silver or white & silver heat spreaders with dynamic LED light bars utilizing Kingston’s patented Infrared Sync Technology to provide smooth, synchronized RGB lighting effects that complement the look of the latest PC builds.

Whether you’re creating content, multi-tasking, or pushing the limits to the extremes for your bleeding edge game title, Kingston FURY Renegade DDR5 RGB memory is the ideal choice for gamers, enthusiasts, content creators, and extreme overclockers. 100% factory tested at speed and backed by a limited lifetime warranty and over 35 years of expertise; dependable Kingston FURY Renegade DDR5 RGB gives you the best of both worlds: extreme performance and maximum peace of mind.”

The dimension of this kit is 133.35x44x7.66mm (LxHxW). The height is a key difference between RGB and non-RGB versions of these kits. The non-RGB kit stands at 39.2mm, whereas the RGB kit has a height of 44mm. The RGB version has a minute more width, 7.66mm, compared to the non-RGB 7.65mm. This is a High-Profile design, and one should take this into consideration when going for an air-cooling solution. It is Non-ECC, Unbuffered DIMM with a 288-pin layout (DDR5). Click here to check the compatibility information of this kit with various motherboards.

Like the Kingston Fury Renegade non-RGB variant, this kit comprises black and silver colors. The main body of the aluminum cover is black color. There are silver color covers on top of the black body, making quite a stunning and elegant design outlook. This heatsink can be taken apart by unscrewing two Philips screws on the top side. KINGSTON FURY is in white color in the center, and RENEGADE is in black color over silver color plating. DDR5 can be seen towards the right side of the black body.

The above angle shows a better view of this silver plating. As mentioned above, this plating is placed on top of the main body, which is black in color. This silver plating gives a unique look to the overall design pattern. The main heatsink is black in color with a black color PCB. We can see the border of the PCB with notches on both sides. The aluminum cover has the same length as the PCB. Kingston has mentioned that tolerances on all dimensions are ±0.12 unless otherwise specified.

The top is where the magic is. We can spot a frosted diffuser on top of these sticks. While one would think this diffuser runs straight on the length of the kit, it is not the case. This diffuser has sloped sides with a mid-section running straight in design. This complements the overall design of this kit.

One observation is that lockers on the edges conceal a certain portion of this diffuser. CORSAIR has wisely addressed this issue and provides a full-length un-concealed diffuser on the top of their sticks. I hope Kingston will also address this. However, this is not glaring or has anything to do with the performance.

The backside of this stick has the same layout except for a sticker label in the center. Well, removing this label would void the warranty. 2306 is printed on that sticker which seems to be the manufacturing date. This kit is assembled in Taiwan.

This is a single-rank design. One side of the PCB has a thick black color foam pad, as this site is not populated. The opposite side has 4x memory chips on one side and 4x on the opposite side. Each of these memory chips has a 2GB capacity using an 8-bit FBGA component design. This gives a 32GB capacity overall in 1Rx8 using a 2G x 64-bit design.

We can also see a thermal pad on these chips. By the way, this is a Hynix A-Die kit having part number H5CG48AEBDX018. This kit uses PMIC controller APW8502C from Anpec Electronics. The non-RGB kit of 6400MT/s has PMIC control chip RTQ5132GQWF from Richtek. This kit was manufactured in February 2023.

A fresh piece we got for sure. This kit does not have a programmed EXPO, but it supports Intel XMP 3.0. One good design is the provision of a temperature sensor on each stick with an accuracy of ±0.50°C using SPD5118 from Montage Technology.

The PCB is protruding from the sides of the heat spreader. This is to make room so that latching can be done when installing the modules in the socket. One can take a glimpse at memory chips.

This kit comes with 3 XMP profiles listed as XMP1, XMP2, and XMP3.

XMP1 loads the DDR5 profile of 7200MT/s using 38-44-44-105 timings at 1.45V.

XMP2 loads the DDR5 profile of 6800MT/s using 36-42-42 timings at 1.40V.

XMP3 loads the DDR5 profile of 6400MT/s using 32-39-39 timings at 1.40V.

On stock or Auto, the JEDEC default values will be loaded with 4800MT/s CL 40-39-39 at 1.10V.

The above picture shows memory timings in USEI BIOS. I always prefer manually entering timings even after loading the XMP profile, just in case.

As shown in the above picture, VDD and VDDQ voltages were set to correct 1.45V manually as well. The PIMC chip is from ANPEC, as we have mentioned above as well.

In addition to VDD/VDDQ voltages, we also needed to set certain voltages, including system agent voltage and memory voltage. Without this tweaking, the system was not stable.

This kit supports SPD profile creation. Users can create up to 2 profiles from BIOS and save those profiles for use on other PCs.

We can see the correct SPD data on all three XMP profiles.

The above is the SPD readout as taken from the AIDA64 Engineer edition.

Testing

We are using below mentioned configuration for RAM testing:

• Intel i7-13700K [Stock, Auto]
• Cooler Master ML360 Flux
• GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS ELITE AX
• Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 2TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD [For OS]
• GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 VISION OC Rev.2 [For Display]
• be quiet! Straight Power 11 850W Platinum PSU

Other kits are:

• G.Skill Ripjaws S5 32GB 6000MHz CAS30
• XPG Lancer RGB 32GB 6000MHz CAS40
• Sabrent Rocket 32GB 4800MHz CAS40
• Kingston FURY RENEGADE 32GB 6400MHz CAS32
• CORSAIR VENGEANCE RGB DDR5 32GB 6000MHz CAS36

We are thankful to our sponsors for this test bench. The following software have been used for the testing:

• AIDA64 Engineer
• SiSoftware Sandra Suite
• Performance Test
• 3DMark Time Spy
• Super Pi

Before testing, we loaded XMP 3.0 (XMP1) in UEFI BIOS. The timings and DRAM frequency were manually loaded just in case to ensure the proper working of the kit.

The above is a CPU-Z screenshot. Looking closely, you will notice that the software is reporting the kit to be in quad-channel configuration. The reason for that is with DDR5 kits, we have two channels per module, with each being 32-bit wide.

Results

Let’s start taking at results one by one, starting with AIDA64 Engineer.

Kingston FURY RENEGADE RGB 32GB 7200MT/s CAS38 has a score of 107200 MB/s. It is highest in this graph.

Kingston FURY RENEGADE RGB 32GB 7200MT/s CAS38 has a score of 92882 MB/s. This kit is taking over the other kits.

Kingston FURY RENEGADE RGB 32GB 7200MT/s CAS38 has a 96398 MB/s score.

Kingston Fury Renegade RGB 32GB 7200MT/s CAS38 has a latency of 61.7ns which stands second compared to Fury Renegade non-RGB 32GB 6400MT/s CAS32 having 61.4ns. This is actually a good performance from the tested kit. Timings are loose to make for this high-speed transfer rate of 7200MT/s, and despite that, there is only a 0.3ns difference between both Kingston kits. This is a win-win scenario for Kingston on our graphs.

SiSoftware Sandra Suite 

Now, let’s take a look at the results from Sandra benchmarks.

Kingston FURY RENEGADE 32GB 6400MT/s CL32 got a score of 2.65 KPT, leading this graph though the G.Skill kit is not behind by a large margin.

Kingston FURY RENEGADE RGB 32GB 7200MT/s CAS38 kit has got 84.98GB/s aggregate bandwidth and comes out on top of this graph.

Kingston Fury Renegade RGB 32GB 7200Mt/s CAS38 is again leading across the board, with 45.95GB/s taking over the second contender, which is also from Kingston.

Superb performance from Kingston Fury Renegade RGB 32GB 7200MT/s CAS38 beating the previous leader, Kingston Fury Renegade 32GB 6400MT/s CAS32.

Performance Test

With 4151 scores, Kingston FURY RENEGADE RGB 32GB 7200MT/s CAS38 kit is leading this graph as well.

Super PI

Kingston FURY RENEGADE RGB 32GB 7200MT/s CAS38 kit is leading this benchmark with 305.59 seconds.

3DMARK Time Spy

We have used the Time Spy benchmark and are reporting CPU Score. We would want to see the impact of using different speed and timing kits on CPU score.

Kingston Fury Renegade RGB 32GB 7200MT/s CAS 38 is leading this graph with a score of 20344.

RGB Lighting

Before we jump to a conclusion, let us show some pictures of vivid RGB lighting from this kit. This kit is compatible with:

• ASUS AURA SYNC
• GIGABYTE RGB FUSION 2.0
• MSI MYSTICSYNC LIGHT
• ASROCK POLYCHROME SYNC

Kingston has also provided software named FURY CTRL. It can be downloaded from their website. There are 18 pre-defined modes in that software. The RGB kits are using Infrared RGB Sync for even light diffusion across the board. We did not use FURY CTRL software as GIGABYTE RGB FUSION 2.0 provided good support for light control on this kit. Here are a few pictures:

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Conclusion

Our 2023 DDR5 graphs are continuously populating with more additions as we get to test more kits from various manufacturers. However, this time we have tested a second kit from Kingston. Previously, Kingston Fury Renegade 32GB 6400MT/s CAS32 has been the winner. One simple factor is that there is no other kit above 6000MT/s other than the Kingston kit.

Welp, this time we have taken a spin on Kingston Fury Renegade RGB 32GB 7200MT/s CAS38 so you can easily guess the top slot on our graphs has changed. Anyhow, coming back to the main topic, this kit has a part number KF572C38RASK2-32. This is a kit of two 2G x 64-bit (32GB) DDR5-7200 CAS38 SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) 1Rx8 memory modules based on eight 2G x 8-bit FBGA components per module. Putting it simply, we have got a 2x16GB DDR5 kit rated for 7200MT/s at CAS 38 using 1.45V.

FURY RENEGADE and FURY RENEGADE RGB are Kingston’s high-performance DDR5 memory solutions. Kingston has mentioned that each component of these kits is hand-picked with rigorous testing for best performance. This series is available in RGB as well as non-RGB options with a frequency range of 6000 MT/s to 7200MT/s using multiple timings and voltages.

The RGB variants are available in two color tones; black & silver and white & silver. These kits are available in single-module as well as double-module configurations. These are dual-channel kits. Kingston’s target market for these kits is gamers, power users, professionals, etc.

We have tested RGB FURY RENEGADE 2x16GB 7200MT/s, CAS38 kit using 1.45V. This kit has a dimension of 133.35x44x7.66mm (LxHxW). 44mm is the overall height of this kit, including the gold pin connector. This kit is a high-profile design. The height of any RAM has a clearance consideration for a CPU cooler, particularly an air cooler. This kit has a width of 7.66mm.

In terms of the overall design, this kit is identical to the non-RGB FURY RENEGADE that we tested earlier, with the main difference between RGB LEDs and a frosted diffuser on top. The main heatsink is made of aluminum material, and it is black in color. There is silver color plating on top of this heat spreader which makes the outlook quite appealing and aggressive in a positive sense.

This kit is a single-rank design. Only one side of a black color PCB is populated with memory chips and a PMIC controller. All components have a thermal pad sitting between them and a heat spreader. This kit uses Hynix A-Dies. The PMIC is from Apnec Technologies. There is an SPD Hub Device as well, providing a temperature sensor on these kits with an accuracy of ±0.50°C.

The above picture shows sensor readout using HWInfo64. The reported temperature is from the SPD Hub of these modules. This kit packs three XMP profiles listed as XMP1, XMP2, and XMP3 in BIOS. The data for each is as under:

Please make a note that running a memory kit above JEDEC Default is considered overclocking, and despite XMP coming from Intel, Intel will not honor the warranty if the CPU gets damaged with the XMP profile loaded. As strange as it sounds, it is what it is!

Other kits included in testing are:

• Skill Ripjaws S5 32GB 6000MHz CAS30
• XPG Lancer RGB 32GB 6000MHz CAS40
• Sabrent Rocket 32GB 4800MHz CAS40
• Kingston FURY RENEGADE 32GB 6400MHz CAS32
• CORSAIR VENGEANCE RGB DDR532GB 6000MHz CAS36

We have tested Kingston FURY RENEGADE RGB DDR5 2x16GB 7200MT/s CAS38 kit on GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS ELITE AX using Intel i7 13700k. This motherboard can support RAM of up to 7200MHz speed at the time of testing. However, there is a BIOS update providing support up to 7400MH. This kit has a smashing performance across the board compared to other kits in our graphs, thanks to its massive faster transfer rate.

Kingston has secured the top two slots in our graphs, which is primarily due to their transfer rates, as we have yet to test high-speed kits from other manufacturers. One side note is that we had to set the system agent voltage and memory voltage manually to make this kit fully stable with the XMP1 profile. Once set, the system was working fine.

Kingston Fury Renegade RGB DDR5 7200MT/s CAS38 non-RGB is listed on AMAZON at USD 365 at the time of this writing. This is a steep price compared to the competition, and maybe Kingston may need to address the pricing accordingly. Kingston is providing a limited lifetime warranty on this kit.

Thanks to Kingston for the provision of a test unit.