Inside

The AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D paired with the Intel Arc B580 runs Inside without compromise at every resolution the database tracks. Measured results show 129 FPS average at 1920x1080 Ultra, 93 FPS at 2560x1440 Ultra, and 61 FPS at 3840x2160 High — meaning this pairing clears the 60 FPS playability threshold at 4K on everything except the Ultra preset, where it falls just short at 58 FPS. For a Puzzle Platformer released in mid-2016, the combination ranks 2764th of 3716 tested pairings in this game, a placement that reflects the title's modest demands rather than any weakness in the hardware itself.

Measured FPS Breakdown

All figures below are measured averages from the database's testing of this exact CPU and GPU pairing.

1920x1080:

• Low: 271 FPS average
• Medium: 217 FPS average (minimum 185, maximum 250)
• High: 136 FPS average
• Ultra: 129 FPS average

2560x1440:

• Low: 195 FPS average
• Medium: 156 FPS average (minimum 133, maximum 180)
• High: 98 FPS average
• Ultra: 93 FPS average

3840x2160:

• Low: 123 FPS average
• Medium: 98 FPS average (minimum 83, maximum 113)
• High: 61 FPS average
• Ultra: 58 FPS average

The data tells a consistent story: frame rates stay high across the board, and even the most demanding combination — 4K Ultra — lands within a hair of the 60 FPS threshold at 58 FPS. Minimum and maximum frame data was captured on the Medium preset at each resolution, and it is reassuringly tight. At 4K Medium, the range runs from 83 to 113 FPS around a 98 FPS average; at 1440p Medium it spans 133 to 180 FPS; at 1080p Medium it spans 185 to 250 FPS. Those narrow spreads indicate the experience is smooth rather than merely fast on average — the worst moments at 4K Medium still sit well above the 60 FPS playability line.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling between resolutions reveals which component sets the ceiling. Going from 1080p to 4K on the Ultra preset drops the average from 129 to 58 FPS — a substantial decline that shows the game's performance at higher pixel counts is dictated by the Arc B580's rendering throughput, not by the Ryzen 9 9900X3D. The same pattern holds on every preset: Low falls from 271 FPS at 1080p to 123 FPS at 4K, Medium from 217 to 98, High from 136 to 61.

At 1080p, the picture shifts. The CPU's single-thread capability — a Cinebench R23 single-core score of 6739 and a Geekbench single-core score of 3041 — becomes the more relevant figure, since Inside is a game where engine logic and draw-call submission typically lean on a few fast threads rather than many. The 9900X3D's 12 cores and 24 threads sit in the 91st percentile against all CPUs in the database, so there is ample headroom on the processor side; the measured 271 FPS at 1080p Low is a figure the Arc B580 can comfortably feed.

Preset-to-preset scaling within a fixed resolution also points to GPU-bound behavior. At 4K, stepping from Low to Ultra costs 65 FPS (123 down to 58), while at 1080p the same step costs 142 FPS (271 down to 129). The GPU — a 68th-percentile part with 13.67 TFLOPS of FP32 compute and 456 GB/s of memory bandwidth — is the component whose limits shape the settings choices at the top end.

Best Settings per Resolution

The most demanding preset that holds at or above 60 FPS at each resolution:

• 1920x1080 — Ultra, 129 FPS average. Every preset is playable, and Ultra still delivers more than double the threshold.
• 2560x1440 — Ultra, 93 FPS average. Again all four presets clear the bar, with Ultra providing a comfortable margin.
• 3840x2160 — High, 61 FPS average. Ultra at 4K averages 58 FPS, just under the threshold, so High is the top playable preset. The step down costs only 3 FPS of headroom relative to Ultra while staying above the line.

Notably, the verdict data confirms that Low, Medium, and High are all playable at 4K, so players who prefer a larger safety margin can drop to Medium for a 98 FPS average without a meaningful visual sacrifice in a stylized Puzzle Platformer like this one.

Similar Performance Alternatives

For CPUs, the nearest rivals to the Ryzen 9 9900X3D by average benchmark score are a tight cluster: the Intel Core Ultra 5 245KF (within 0.6 percent), the Intel Core Ultra 5 245K (1.3 percent behind), the Intel Xeon 6505P (2 percent behind), and the Intel Core i7-14700F (2.1 percent behind). Any of these processors would deliver effectively indistinguishable results in Inside, since the game's demands are far below what even the lower-scoring members of that group can supply — the 9900X3D's average benchmark score of 54762 sits within a couple of percent of all four.

On the GPU side, the Arc B580's nearest rivals are equally close. The AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP is within 0.2 percent of its average score, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 within 0.6 percent, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 within 0.7 percent, and the NVIDIA P106-100 within 1 percent. Substituting any of these cards for the B580 should reproduce Inside's performance profile closely — meaning 4K Ultra hovering near the 60 FPS line and comfortable Ultra play at 1440p. The B580 itself posts a PassMark G3D score of 15748 and a 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 3068, figures that anchor it in the 68th percentile of all GPUs in the database.

FAQ

Q: Can this combo run Inside at 4K with max settings?

A: Almost. At 3840x2160 Ultra it averages 58 FPS, just below the 60 FPS playability threshold. Dropping to High raises the average to 61 FPS, which clears the bar.

Q: What is the highest FPS measured with this pairing?

A: 271 FPS average at 1920x1080 on the Low preset. At 4K Low, the same preset still delivers 123 FPS.

Q: Does the frame rate ever dip below 60 FPS?

A: Only at 4K Ultra, where the average of 58 FPS sits under the threshold. On the Medium preset, where minimum and maximum frame rates were captured, the lowest recorded figure is 83 FPS at 3840x2160 — comfortably above the line.

Q: Is the CPU or the GPU more important for this game?

A: The GPU. The large drop in average FPS between 1080p and 4K on every preset — 271 down to 123 on Low, for example — shows that rendering load, not processor throughput, determines the frame rate ceiling. The 9900X3D has substantial spare capacity.

Q: How does this pairing rank among tested combinations for Inside?

A: It ranks 2764 out of 3716 tested combinations. Given that the pairing is playable at High or better at every resolution including 4K, the mid-table rank reflects the presence of faster pairings in the database rather than any shortfall for this game.

Q: What are the minimum and maximum frame rates on Medium presets?

A: At 1920x1080 Medium: 185 minimum, 250 maximum. At 2560x1440 Medium: 133 minimum, 180 maximum. At 3840x2160 Medium: 83 minimum, 113 maximum.

How This Combo Ranks

Against the full field of 3716 tested CPU and GPU combinations in Inside, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D plus Arc B580 pairing sits at rank 2764. The interpretation matters here: this game does not need exotic hardware to run well, and faster combinations simply pile on surplus frame rates at lower resolutions. What the rank obscits is the practical outcome — playable settings at or above 60 FPS at every resolution, Ultra at both 1080p and 1440p, and High at 4K with a 61 FPS average.

The hardware context supports that reading. The CPU, a Zen 5 (Granite Ridge) part built on TSMC's 4 nm process with 128 MB of L3 cache and a 5.50 GHz boost clock, sits in the 91st percentile of all CPUs by benchmark performance. The GPU, a Battlemage-generation Xe2-HPG design on TSMC's 5 nm node with 12 GB of GDDR6 on a 192-bit bus, sits in the 68th percentile of all GPUs. For a 2016 Puzzle Platformer, that is far more rendering and compute power than the engine asks for, and the measured numbers bear it out: nothing in the dataset drops below the playable threshold except a single preset at a single resolution, and even that misses by two frames.