Inside

The AMD Ryzen 7 9700X paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 doesn't just run Inside — it obliterates it. Measured results show this combination holding well above 100 FPS at 4K even on the Ultra preset, and above 300 FPS at 1080p, a game that launched as a puzzle platformer with deliberately restrained visual demands. Every preset at every tested resolution clears the 60 FPS playable threshold by a wide margin, making the question of settings choice almost academic.

Best Settings per Resolution

Because every tested configuration exceeds the 60 FPS threshold, the most demanding preset — Ultra — is the correct choice at all three resolutions.

• 1920x1080 — Ultra: 313.1 FPS average. Nothing else needs to be said; Low only pushes to 428.1 FPS, a gain with no practical benefit at this frame rate.
• 2560x1440 — Ultra: 225.2 FPS average, more than three times the playable threshold.
• 3840x2160 — Ultra: 141.7 FPS average. Even at native 4K with the highest preset, the frame rate never approaches a concern, sitting well over double the 60 FPS line.

The gap between Ultra and Low at 4K is 294.1 versus 141.7 FPS — meaning even the harshest setting in the game costs less than the entire Ultra frame rate. Turning settings down buys headroom nobody needs here.

How This Combo Ranks

Inside has been tested with 3,716 hardware combinations in this database, and the Ryzen 7 9700X + RTX 4090 pairing ranks 35th. That places it in roughly the top one percent of tested configurations for this game. The rank reflects the strength of both components individually: the 9700X sits in the 86th percentile versus all CPUs in the database with an average benchmark score of 37943, and the RTX 4090 sits in the 88th percentile versus all GPUs with an average benchmark score of 60347.

For context on the CPU side, the 9700X's nearest rivals by average score are the Intel Core i9-14901E (37911, a 0.1 percent gap), the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (37904, 0.1 percent), the Intel Core 5 211E (37829, 0.3 percent), and the AMD Ryzen AI Embedded P132 (37804, 0.4 percent). On the GPU side, the 4090's closest comparables are the Intel Arc Pro A60 (60326, delta 0 percent), the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 (60140, 0.3 percent), the AMD Radeon Pro W6600M (61896, −2.5 percent), and the AMD Radeon PRO V710 (58657, 2.9 percent). Any of these pairings would land near this combo's performance envelope, but none of the listed rivals exceed it meaningfully.

Measured FPS Breakdown

All figures below are measured average frame rates; minimum and maximum values were not captured for these runs.

3840x2160 (4K)

| Preset | Avg FPS |

|---|---|

| Low | 294.1 |

| Medium | 237.1 |

| High | 149.5 |

| Ultra | 141.7 |

The preset ladder at 4K is steep at the top: dropping from High to Medium adds nearly 88 FPS. The High-to-Ultra step, by contrast, costs less than 8 FPS, indicating Ultra's extras are cheap once the baseline load is paid.

2560x1440 (1440p)

| Preset | Avg FPS |

|---|---|

| Low | 381.6 |

| Medium | 354.6 |

| High | 236.6 |

| Ultra | 225.2 |

Medium-to-High is the expensive transition here, cutting roughly 118 FPS. Ultra costs only another 11.4 FPS over High — again, the most visually complete preset is nearly free relative to its predecessor.

1920x1080 (1080p)

| Preset | Avg FPS |

|---|---|

| Low | 428.1 |

| Medium | 391.4 |

| High | 326.2 |

| Ultra | 313.1 |

The same pattern holds: Low-to-Medium costs 36.7 FPS, Medium-to-High costs 65.2, and High-to-Ultra just 13.1. Across every resolution, Ultra is the smallest single step down from the preset below it.

FAQ

Q: Can the Ryzen 7 9700X + RTX 4090 run Inside at 4K?

A: Yes, comfortably. The Ultra preset at 3840x2160 averages 141.7 FPS, and every other preset — High, Medium, and Low — also clears the 60 FPS threshold, with Low reaching 294.1 FPS.

Q: What is the best settings choice for this hardware in Inside?

A: Ultra at all three tested resolutions. The verdict data lists bestSettings as Ultra for 1920x1080 (313.1 FPS), 2560x1440 (225.2 FPS), and 3840x2160 (141.7 FPS).

Q: How does this combination rank against other tested hardware for Inside?

A: It ranks 35th out of 3,716 tested combinations, placing it in approximately the top one percent.

Q: Does any preset fall below 60 FPS anywhere?

A: No. The playableSettings list for every resolution includes all four presets — Low, Medium, High, and Ultra. The slowest single result in the entire dataset is 141.7 FPS at 4K Ultra.

Q: How much performance is lost going from 1080p to 4K on Ultra?

A: Average FPS drops from 313.1 at 1920x1080 to 141.7 at 3840x2160 — a reduction of more than half, though both figures are far above the playable threshold.

Q: What CPU and GPU make up this pairing?

A: The AMD Ryzen 7 9700X, an 8-core, 16-thread Zen 5 desktop processor on the AM5 socket, and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, an Ada Lovelace GPU with 24 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 384-bit bus.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling data tells a clear story: Inside on this combo is GPU-bound at higher resolutions and increasingly CPU-limited as resolution falls. Going from 4K Ultra to 1080p Ultra raises the average from 141.7 to 313.1 FPS — a 171.4 FPS gain that only the GPU side of the equation can explain, since the render load is what changes between those runs. But at 1080p, the presets compress: Low manages 428.1 FPS while Ultra sits at 313.1. The fact that frame rates at 1080p don't scale anywhere near proportionally with the enormous drop in pixel count from 4K Low (294.1 FPS) indicates the CPU and game logic become the ceiling once the GPU load is light.

The 9700X is well equipped to be that ceiling. Its single-thread results — a Cinebench R23 single-core score of 2211 and a Geekbench single-core score of 3023 — along with a 3DMark single-thread score of 1280 describe a processor whose per-core throughput is strong, which matters for a game like Inside where a lean game loop drives very high frame rates. Its max-thread 3DMark score of 9771 and Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 20485 confirm there is plenty of multi-threaded headroom the game will never need.

At 4K, the GPU does the heavy lifting. The RTX 4090's PassMark G3D score of 38194 and 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 9223 describe a card that treats Inside's Ultra preset as a light workload — 141.7 FPS at native 4K is the floor, not the ceiling. In short: at 1080p the CPU matters most, at 1440p the balance shifts toward the GPU, and at 4K the GPU is entirely in command while the 9700X idles along far below its limits.

The Verdict

Yes — unreservedly. The verdict-by-resolution data confirms that every preset from Low through Ultra is playable at 1920x1080, 2560x1440, and 3840x2160, with Ultra as the best setting at each: 313.1 FPS at 1080p, 225.2 FPS at 1440p, and 141.7 FPS at 4K. The slowest measured result across the entire dataset — 141.7 FPS at 4K Ultra — is more than double the 60 FPS playable threshold. For a game released in 2016, this hardware does not merely meet its demands; the data shows it runs Inside at frame rates limited only by the game engine itself, and the pairing's 35th-place rank out of 3,716 combinations confirms it as a top-tier configuration for this title.