Inside

Inside is a puzzle platformer released in 2016, and the pairing of an Intel Core i7-12700K with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti treats it as a trivial workload. Measured benchmark data confirms this: every preset at every resolution tested — from 1920x1080 up to 3840x2160 — clears the 60 FPS playable threshold by a wide margin. The following analysis walks through the measured frame rates, situates the combo against the benchmark database, and identifies which component actually matters for this title.

Measured FPS Breakdown

Starting at 1920x1080, the data shows the highest frame rates of any resolution tested. On the Low preset the combo averages 367.4 FPS. Medium raises the visual load slightly and lands at 337.6 FPS, while High drops further to 270.3 FPS. Even Ultra, the most demanding preset, holds a 258.2 FPS average. The spread from Low to Ultra at this resolution is 109.2 FPS, which is proportionally modest — turning everything up costs less than a third of the Low-preset figure.

At 2560x1440, frame rates shift down a step. Low averages 327.2 FPS, Medium 305.6 FPS, High 192 FPS, and Ultra 185.7 FPS. The most notable change is between Medium and High, where the average falls by 113.6 FPS — a much larger step than the High-to-Ultra drop of just 6.3 FPS. Once past Medium, additional quality settings barely register.

At 3840x2160, the averages are: Low at 245.8 FPS, Medium at 197.6 FPS, High at 123.2 FPS, and Ultra at 117.8 FPS. The same pattern repeats — High and Ultra cluster closely together, separated by only 5.4 FPS, while the Medium-to-High transition costs 74.4 FPS. Minimum and maximum frame rates were not recorded for any of these configurations; the analysis rests entirely on the average figures.

Across all twelve configurations, the lowest average recorded is 117.8 FPS at 4K Ultra — nearly double the 60 FPS playable threshold. There is no measured scenario in which this combo approaches unplayable territory.

FAQ

Q: Can the i7-12700K + RTX 4070 Ti run Inside at 4K on the highest settings?

A: Yes. At 3840x2160 on the Ultra preset the combo averages 117.8 FPS, well above the 60 FPS playable threshold.

Q: What is the single fastest configuration measured?

A: 1920x1080 on the Low preset, averaging 367.4 FPS.

Q: Which preset should be used at 1440p for maximum image quality?

A: Ultra. It averages 185.7 FPS at 2560x1440 — barely below High's 192 FPS — so there is no reason to step down.

Q: Is the 60 FPS threshold met at every resolution and preset combination tested?

A: Yes. All four presets at all three resolutions — 1920x1080, 2560x1440, and 3840x2160 — exceed 60 FPS average.

Q: How does this CPU/GPU pairing rank against other combos tested in Inside?

A: It ranks 337 out of 3716 tested combinations, placing it in roughly the top tenth of the database for this game.

Q: Does dropping from Ultra to Low at 4K meaningfully increase frame rate?

A: Yes — the average climbs from 117.8 FPS to 245.8 FPS, slightly more than doubling, though both are already comfortably playable.

Best Settings per Resolution

Because every preset clears 60 FPS at every resolution, the recommended setting is simply the most demanding preset available at each resolution:

• 1920x1080: Ultra, averaging 258.2 FPS.
• 2560x1440: Ultra, averaging 185.7 FPS.
• 3840x2160: Ultra, averaging 117.8 FPS.

The verdict data confirms this directly: for all three resolutions, "Ultra" is listed as the best settings with playableSettings spanning High, Low, Medium, and Ultra. There is no resolution in the test set where a quality reduction is warranted.

Similar Performance Alternatives

On the CPU side, the i7-12700K carries an average benchmark score of 35287 and sits at the 84th percentile versus all CPUs. Its nearest rivals are effectively interchangeable: the Intel Core i5-13600T averages 35305 (a delta of -0.1 percent, i.e., marginally faster in aggregate), the Intel Core i7-12700KF averages 35365 (-0.2 percent), the Intel Core i7-13700T averages 35403 (-0.3 percent), and the Intel Core 5 213PE averages 35428 (-0.4 percent). Any of these processors would deliver near-identical behavior in Inside given how undemanding the title is relative to this hardware class.

On the GPU side, the RTX 4070 Ti averages 44795 across its benchmark suite and also lands at the 84th percentile versus all GPUs. Its nearest rivals include the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile at 45152 (-0.8 percent), the AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT at 45384 (-1.3 percent), the NVIDIA RTX A6000 at 44075 (1.6 percent), and the Intel Arc A730M at 45592 (-1.7 percent). Substituting any of these for the RTX 4070 Ti would produce broadly similar results — and for a game of Inside's demands, all of them are heavily overkill.

How This Combo Ranks

Within the benchmark database, this specific pairing ranks 337th out of 3716 tested combinations for Inside. That places it comfortably within the top tenth of all tested configurations for this game. Given that the game's minimum measured result with this hardware — 117.8 FPS at 4K Ultra — already doubles the playable threshold, the ranking reflects a pairing that far exceeds what the game requires. Combos ranking above it are, by implication, extracting frame rates beyond what Inside's engine meaningfully benefits from at standard refresh rates.

It is worth contextualizing the components individually: both the CPU and the GPU sit at the 84th percentile of their respective hardware pools. This is a balanced pairing — neither component dramatically outclasses the other in aggregate benchmark terms, which is consistent with the scaling behavior seen across resolutions.

The Verdict

Yes — emphatically. This PC runs Inside at every tested resolution and every tested preset above 60 FPS. At 1920x1080 the best setting is Ultra at 258.2 FPS average; at 2560x1440 Ultra delivers 185.7 FPS; at 3840x2160 Ultra still manages 117.8 FPS. All four presets — Low, Medium, High, and Ultra — are classified as playable at all three resolutions in the verdict data. For a 2016 puzzle platformer running on a 12-core, 20-thread Alder Lake CPU and an Ada Lovelace GPU with 7680 shading units and 12 GB of GDDR6X, the outcome was never in doubt: the constraint is not performance but display refresh rate.

CPU and GPU Roles

The scaling data points to the GPU as the binding constraint at every resolution — though even that constraint is loose. Moving from 1920x1080 Ultra to 3840x2160 Ultra drops the average from 258.2 FPS to 117.8 FPS, a fall of 140.4 FPS as pixel count quadruples. That resolution-driven decline — steeper at higher resolutions than the preset-driven decline within a resolution — is the classic signature of a GPU-limited scenario rather than a CPU-limited one.

The preset scaling reinforces this. At 4K, going from Low (245.8 FPS) to Medium (197.6) to High (123.2) to Ultra (117.8) shows the heavy cost concentrated in the Medium-to-High step, which adds shader and effect load borne almost entirely by the GPU. Meanwhile, the extremely high 1080p figures — 367.4 FPS on Low — indicate the CPU is not the ceiling even at low resolutions where processor limitations typically surface first. The i7-12700K, with a single-thread Passmark score of 4013 and a Geekbench single-core score of 2308, provides far more per-core throughput than this 2016 title can exploit.

In short: Inside is GPU-sensitive on this hardware in the technical sense that frame rate scales with resolution and preset, but in practical terms neither component is meaningfully challenged. Any of the CPU or GPU rivals listed above would behave essentially the same.