Inside

The Intel Core i7-13700K paired with Intel's Arc B370 integrated graphics delivers a clear-cut result in Inside: fully playable at 1080p across every preset, playable at 1440p up to Medium, and restricted to Low settings at 4K. The bottleneck is unambiguous. The Core i7-13700K sits in the 89th percentile of all CPUs in the database, while the Arc B370, an integrated GPU with a 25 W TDP and system-shared memory, sits in just the 5th percentile of all GPUs. This pairing puts overwhelming processor firepower behind a very modest graphics solution, and the frame rates reflect exactly that imbalance.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The recorded data covers three resolutions with four presets each, and the scaling pattern is consistent and instructive.

At 1920x1080, the combo is comfortably playable at every setting level. Low averages 141 FPS, Medium averages 113 FPS with a minimum of 96 and a maximum of 130, High averages 70 FPS, and Ultra still clears the 60 FPS playable threshold with an average of 67. That Medium frame range (96 to 130) is remarkably tight, indicating stable, consistent delivery rather than a spiky average masking stutters.

At 2560x1440, two presets remain playable. Low averages 101 FPS, Medium averages 81 FPS with a minimum of 69 and a maximum of 93, High drops to an average of 51, and Ultra falls to 48. The Medium minimum of 69 matters here: even the worst recorded moments stay above the 60 FPS threshold, so 1440p Medium is a genuinely stable configuration rather than a marginal one.

At 3840x2160, only Low survives. It averages 64 FPS, Medium averages 51 with a minimum of 43 and a maximum of 59, High averages 32, and Ultra averages 30. The Medium data at 4K is the most revealing of the set: even its maximum frame rate of 59 never reaches 60, meaning the entire experience sits below the playable line at that preset.

The drop from 1080p to 1440p at Medium is 32 FPS (113 to 81), and from 1440p to 4K is another 30 FPS (81 to 51). This near-linear decline with pixel count is the signature of GPU-bound behavior, which the component analysis below confirms.

How This Combo Ranks

Inside the database's rankings for this game, the i7-13700K plus Arc B370 combination places 3422nd out of 3716 tested combinations. That places it in the bottom tranche of tested pairings for Inside, which is entirely attributable to the graphics side. The ranking should be read carefully: it does not mean the game is unplayable, since 1080p Ultra still delivers 67 FPS on average. It means most other tested combinations deliver substantially higher frame rates, typically because they pair discrete GPUs with stronger graphics throughput.

The context for that rank comes from the component percentiles. The Core i7-13700K sits at the 89th percentile versus all CPUs in the database, with an average benchmark score of 46881 across its recorded tests, including a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 30745, a Geekbench multi-core score of 19429, and a PassMark multithread score of 45887. The Arc B370, by contrast, sits at the 5th percentile versus all GPUs, with a sole recorded synthetic result of 1184 in 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12. A top-decile CPU mated to a bottom-decile GPU produces a bottom-decile combo rank, and the data shows precisely that.

CPU and GPU Roles

The GPU is the limiting component at every resolution tested, and the evidence is overwhelming.

First, resolution scaling. From 1080p to 4K at Medium settings, the average falls from 113 to 81 to 51 FPS. Frame rates that collapse in proportion to pixel count are GPU-bound; a CPU-bound configuration would hold nearly flat as resolution rises, because the processor's workload barely changes between 1080p and 4K. Inside shows the opposite pattern.

Second, preset scaling within a resolution. At 1080p, moving from Low to Ultra cuts the average from 141 to 67 FPS. If the i7-13700K were the constraint, raising visual quality would have little effect on frame rate, since the CPU does not render shadows or post-processing. Instead, each preset step costs roughly 28 to 43 FPS at 1080p, exactly the gradient expected when the Arc B370's 1280 shading units, 6.144 TFLOPS of FP32 throughput, and system-shared memory are doing the heavy lifting.

Third, the sheer headroom on the CPU side. The i7-13700K is a 16-core, 24-thread Raptor Lake-S processor with a 5.40 GHz boost clock, 30 MB of shared L3 cache, and a single-thread PassMark score of 4333. It rivals chips like the AMD Ryzen 9 5900 (within 0.2 percent on average benchmark score) and sits effectively even with the Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 375 and Ryzen 9 7845HX. A puzzle platformer released in 2016 poses no meaningful load to hardware in that class. Inside is a lightweight, atmospheric 2.5D title, and the measured results confirm the processor is never the ceiling: the ceiling is set by the 25 W integrated graphics solution, whose memory bandwidth is system-dependent and therefore constrained by dual-channel system RAM rather than dedicated VRAM.

The practical takeaway: upgrading the CPU in this pairing would change nothing in Inside. Upgrading the graphics side would change nearly everything.

Similar Performance Alternatives

On the graphics side, the database's nearest rivals for the Arc B370 are revealing because of their vintage. The ATI Radeon HD 5770 (average score 1190, 0.5 percent faster), the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5570 (1186, 0.2 percent faster), the AMD Radeon HD 7650M (1192, 0.7 percent faster), and the AMD FirePro M2000 (1168, 1.4 percent slower) all cluster within a fraction of a percent of the Arc B370's synthetic score. Systems built around any of those graphics solutions would be expected to deliver Inside frame rates broadly similar to the ones measured here, meaning playable at 1080p across presets and increasingly constrained at 1440p and 4K.

On the CPU side, the nearest rivals are far more modern and far more capable. The AMD Ryzen 9 5900 (average score 46971) is statistically indistinguishable from the i7-13700K, at a delta of just 0.2 percent. The AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 375 (47022, 0.3 percent ahead) and the AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX (46654, 0.5 percent behind) are likewise within rounding distance, as is the Intel Xeon w3-2535 (46653, 0.5 percent behind). Any of these processors paired with equivalent integrated-class graphics would produce essentially identical Inside results, because the game's frame rate is decided at the GPU, not the CPU.

Best Settings per Resolution

The database defines the playable threshold as 60 FPS average, and the verdict by resolution identifies the most demanding preset that stays at or above it.

At 1920x1080, the best setting is Ultra, averaging 67 FPS. Every preset is playable at this resolution, ranging from the 141 FPS Low average up through Medium at 113 and High at 70. Players wanting the largest frame budget should use Medium, whose 96 FPS minimum guarantees smoothness; players wanting full visual fidelity can enable Ultra and still stay above threshold.

At 2560x1440, the best setting is Medium, averaging 81 FPS, with a recorded minimum of 69 and maximum of 93. High (51 FPS) and Ultra (48 FPS) both fall below the threshold here, so Medium is the ceiling for a 1440p display.

At 3840x2160, the best setting is Low, averaging 64 FPS. This is the only 4K preset that clears 60 FPS; Medium averages 51 and never exceeds 59 even at its maximum. Players on a 4K display who want the playable guarantee must accept the lowest preset, or drop the rendering resolution instead.

FAQ

Q: Can the i7-13700K and Arc B370 run Inside at 4K?

A: Only at Low settings, where the average is 64 FPS. Medium at 4K averages 51 FPS with a maximum of 59, so even the best moments stay below the 60 FPS playable threshold. High and Ultra average 32 and 30 FPS respectively and are not viable.

Q: Which component limits performance in Inside?

A: The GPU. The Arc B370 sits in the 5th percentile of all GPUs, while the i7-13700K sits in the 89th percentile of all CPUs. Frame rates fall sharply as resolution and preset quality rise (113 FPS at 1080p Medium versus 51 FPS at 4K Medium), which is the classic signature of a graphics-bound configuration.

Q: Is 1080p Ultra playable?

A: Yes. Ultra at 1920x1080 averages 67 FPS, above the database's 60 FPS playable threshold. All four presets are playable at 1080p, from Low at 141 FPS to Ultra at 67 FPS.

Q: How stable is the frame rate at 1440p Medium?

A: Very stable. The recorded range is a minimum of 69 FPS and a maximum of 93 against an average of 81, meaning even the slowest recorded frame delivery remains above the 60 FPS threshold.

Q: Where does this combo rank among tested configurations for Inside?

A: It ranks 3422 out of 3716 tested combinations. The low rank reflects the Arc B370's limited graphics throughput rather than any CPU shortcoming, since the i7-13700K's average benchmark score of 46881 places it within 0.2 percent of the AMD Ryzen 9 5900.

Q: Would a different CPU with similar graphics behave the same way?

A: Yes. Processors such as the AMD Ryzen 9 5900, Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 375, and Ryzen 9 7845HX all sit within half a percent of the i7-13700K's average benchmark score, and Inside's frame rate is set by the graphics side, so equivalent integrated graphics would produce comparable results.