Inside

Measured FPS Breakdown

The recorded measurements for Inside with the Intel Core i5-11400F and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti show a game that is almost never challenged by this hardware combination. At 3840x2160, the average frame rates range from 95.9 FPS at Ultra settings up to 205.5 FPS at Low settings. The High preset lands at 105.3 FPS, while Medium sits between them at 163.7 FPS. This means that even at 4K, the combination never dips anywhere near the 60 FPS playable threshold, and the spread between Low and Ultra is roughly 110 FPS, which shows how much headroom the GPU has at this resolution.

Moving to 2560x1440, the averages climb across every preset. Low settings produce 245.5 FPS, Medium reaches 226.3 FPS, High hits 165.4 FPS, and Ultra delivers 159.5 FPS. The gap between Low and Ultra shrinks in relative terms compared to 4K, but the absolute difference is still over 85 FPS. At 1920x1080, the results are even higher: Low runs at 272.7 FPS, Medium at 249.8 FPS, High at 209.7 FPS, and Ultra at 207.8 FPS. The difference between High and Ultra at 1080p is only 1.9 FPS, which suggests that the Ultra preset is barely more demanding than High at this resolution, while the jump from Medium to High costs roughly 40 FPS.

The min and max FPS values are not available in the recorded data, so all analysis relies on average frame rates. That said, the averages are so far above the playable threshold that even a substantial drop in the low percentile would still leave the game comfortably playable. The data shows a consistent pattern: each resolution step down from 4K to 1440p to 1080p yields a meaningful increase in average FPS across all four presets.

Best Settings per Resolution

At 3840x2160, the best settings that remain at or above 60 FPS are Ultra, with an average of 95.9 FPS. This is the most demanding preset available, and it still clears the 60 FPS threshold by a wide margin. The database lists all four settings, High, Low, Medium, and Ultra, as playable at this resolution, so there is no trade-off required at 4K; the user can run the game at its maximum quality and still get nearly 96 FPS on average.

At 2560x1440, the best settings are also Ultra, with an average of 159.5 FPS. The margin over the 60 FPS threshold is even larger here, over 99 FPS, meaning there is substantial headroom. At 1920x1080, Ultra again is the best setting, averaging 207.8 FPS. Across all three resolutions, the verdict is identical: Ultra is playable everywhere, and the frame rates at 1440p and 1080p are so high that the game is effectively GPU-bound only at 4K, if even there.

For a game like Inside, a puzzle platformer with a relatively static camera and stylized visuals, these numbers indicate that the combination never forces a compromise. The most demanding preset at each resolution stays above 60 FPS, and in every case it stays above 95 FPS. The recorded data shows no scenario where the user must lower settings to maintain playability.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling between resolutions and presets reveals how the workload shifts between the CPU and GPU. At 1920x1080, the difference between Low and Ultra is 64.9 FPS (272.7 down to 207.8). At 2560x1440, the same preset range spans 86 FPS (245.5 down to 159.5). At 3840x2160, the range grows to 109.6 FPS (205.5 down to 95.9). This widening gap as resolution increases indicates that the GPU becomes more dominant at higher resolutions, since the pixel workload grows and the frame rate drops more sharply when moving from Low to Ultra.

Conversely, the CPU's role is most visible at lower resolutions. At 1080p, even the Low preset only reaches 272.7 FPS, which is likely near the CPU's practical limit for this game engine. The fact that Ultra at 1080p still hits 207.8 FPS, while at 4K Ultra drops to 95.9 FPS, shows that the GPU is the limiting factor at 4K, but at 1080p the CPU is doing more of the work relative to the GPU. The Intel Core i5-11400F has 6 cores and 12 threads, with a boost clock of 4.40 GHz, and its benchmark scores, such as 14,340 in Cinebench R23 multi-core and 2,024 in single-core, suggest it is capable of feeding the RTX 3080 Ti at these frame rates without becoming a bottleneck at 1080p.

The RTX 3080 Ti, with 10,240 shading units and 34.10 TFLOPS FP32, is clearly the stronger component in this pairing. The data supports this: at 4K Ultra, the average of 95.9 FPS is still far above the playable threshold, and at 1080p Low, the 272.7 FPS average is likely approaching the engine's frame rate ceiling. The CPU percentile rank of 71 versus the GPU percentile rank of 83 also indicates that the GPU is the higher-performing part relative to other hardware in the database. For Inside specifically, the game is not particularly demanding on either component, but the resolution scaling shows the GPU bearing more load as pixel count rises.

Similar Performance Alternatives

Looking at the nearest rivals for the Intel Core i5-11400F, the database lists the AMD EPYC 7H12 with an average score of 17,120, which is 0.3% lower than the i5-11400F's average of 17,177. The Intel Core i5-12450H scores 17,239, about 0.4% higher. The AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 8300G scores 17,278, 0.6% higher, and the Intel Core Ultra 7 164U scores 17,074, 0.6% lower. These deltas are all within 1%, meaning any of these CPUs would produce nearly identical frame rates in Inside when paired with the same GPU. The i5-11400F sits at the 71st percentile among all CPUs, so it is a mid-to-upper tier processor, and its rivals in this score range are all comparable in practice.

For the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, the nearest rivals are the AMD Radeon Pro 5300 with an average score of 40,870, 0.8% lower than the RTX 3080 Ti's 41,187. The NVIDIA Tesla M40 24 GB scores 41,707, 1.2% higher, and the standard Tesla M40 scores 41,897, 1.7% higher. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 scores 40,377, 2% lower. The differences here are slightly larger than the CPU rivals but still small; the RTX 3080 Ti is at the 83rd percentile among all GPUs. A user moving from the RTX 3080 Ti to any of these alternatives would see very similar performance in Inside, since the game is not demanding enough to expose the small benchmark deltas. The RTX 5070, despite being a newer generation, is only 2% lower in average benchmark score, so it would behave almost identically in this title.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the Intel Core i5-11400F and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti ranks 1,256 out of 3,716 tested combinations in the database for Inside. This puts it in the upper third of all tested systems, roughly the 66th percentile among combos. Given that the game runs at 95.9 FPS minimum across all resolutions and settings, the rank reflects the fact that many other combinations, likely with even stronger CPUs or GPUs, also achieve very high frame rates in this undemanding title. The rank is more a measure of raw hardware capability than of playability, since even much lower-ranked combos would likely run Inside at 60 FPS. Still, the data shows that this particular pairing is well above the median tested system, and the 83rd percentile GPU is doing most of the heavy lifting.

The gap between the combo rank and the GPU percentile suggests that the CPU holds the combination back slightly in the overall ranking, but for Inside specifically, this does not matter. The game's frame rates are so high at every setting that the CPU's 71st percentile standing is irrelevant to the playability verdict. The recorded data confirms that all three resolutions, 1080p, 1440p, and 4K, support Ultra settings at or above 95.9 FPS, which is a decisive result.

FAQ

Q: Can this system run Inside at 4K Ultra settings?

A: Yes. The measured average FPS at 3840x2160 with Ultra settings is 95.9 FPS, well above the 60 FPS playable threshold.

Q: What is the best settings preset at 1440p?

A: At 2560x1440, Ultra is the best preset, with an average of 159.5 FPS. All four presets are playable at this resolution.

Q: How much faster is Low compared to Ultra at 1080p?

A: At 1920x1080, Low averages 272.7 FPS while Ultra averages 207.8 FPS, a difference of 64.9 FPS.

Q: Is the CPU or GPU more important for this game at 4K?

A: The GPU is more important at 4K. The frame rate drop from Low to Ultra at 3840x2160 is 109.6 FPS (205.5 down to 95.9), which shows the GPU bearing the extra load as resolution increases.

Q: How does this combo rank compared to all tested systems?

A: The combination ranks 1,256 out of 3,716 tested combos in the database for Inside, placing it in the upper third of tested systems.

Q: What GPU alternatives perform similarly to the RTX 3080 Ti?

A: The AMD Radeon Pro 5300 scores 0.8% lower, the NVIDIA Tesla M40 24 GB scores 1.2% higher, and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 scores 2% lower in average benchmark score. All would produce nearly identical frame rates in Inside.