Inside

Inside is a 2016 puzzle platformer from Playdead, and pairing it with an Intel Core i7-14700K and an AMD Radeon RX 9070 produces some of the most lopsided performance data you'll encounter in a benchmark database. This is a game released years before either component existed, and the measured results reflect that gap: even at 3840x2160 with Ultra settings, the average frame rate sits at 92.4 FPS. The data below unpacks what that means for ranking, alternatives, and where the bottleneck actually lies.

How This Combo Ranks

Across the 3716 tested hardware combinations for Inside, the i7-14700K + RX 9070 pairing lands at rank 803. That placement is more a statement about the game than the hardware. The Core i7-14700K sits in the 94th percentile versus all CPUs in the database, and the RX 9070 sits in the 69th percentile versus all GPUs — yet the combo doesn't crack the top tier for this particular title.

The explanation is straightforward once you look at the frame rates themselves. At 1920x1080 on Low settings, the system averages 409.3 FPS. Inside is a puzzle platformer with modest demands, and any reasonably modern pairing will clear the 60 FPS playability threshold with enormous headroom. Ranking near the top for this game requires pushing into frame rates that only the most extreme combinations can reach, so a rank of 803 out of 3716 — roughly the top fifth of tested combos — still corresponds to performance that is, in any practical sense, unlimited for this title.

It's also worth questioning what rank even measures here. With minimum and maximum frame rates unavailable for these runs, ranking compresses into a narrow band of very high averages, and small differences between adjacent combos matter little when every result is multiple times the playable threshold.

Similar Performance Alternatives

If the goal is replicating this combo's behavior in Inside, the nearest-rivals data suggests several substitutions would be nearly indistinguishable.

On the CPU side, the i7-14700K carries an average benchmark score of 69355. Its closest rivals are remarkably tight: the AMD EPYC 9115 averages 69288 (a 0.1% difference), the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X averages 69515 (-0.2%), the AMD Ryzen 9 7940HX averages 69875 (-0.7%), and the AMD Ryzen 7 9700F averages 69996 (-0.9%). Swapping any of these processors in would shift the CPU-side baseline by less than one percent — a difference that Inside, which does not stress even a fraction of the i7-14700K's 28 threads, would never reveal in gameplay.

On the GPU side, the RX 9070 averages 23877 across its benchmark suite. Its nearest rivals are the NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z at 23736 (0.6% behind), the AMD Radeon RX 6800S at 24063 (-0.8%), the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile at 23628 (1.1% behind), and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER at 24170 (-1.2%). Any of these cards should produce Inside results within a small margin of the RX 9070's measured output.

The curious takeaway: a card as old as the GTX TITAN Z would statistically match a 4 nm RDNA 4.0 part in this database's aggregate scoring. For a game like Inside, that equivalence holds up in practice too — the game simply doesn't need modern GPU horsepower to run flat out.

FAQ

Q: Can the i7-14700K + RX 9070 run Inside at 4K with Ultra settings?

A: Yes. The measured average at 3840x2160 on Ultra is 92.4 FPS, well above the 60 FPS playability threshold.

Q: What is the highest frame rate recorded for this combo in Inside?

A: 409.3 FPS average, at 1920x1080 on Low settings.

Q: Is there any resolution or preset where this combo drops below 60 FPS?

A: No. Every tested combination of resolution (1920x1080, 2560x1440, 3840x2160) and preset (Low, Medium, High, Ultra) clears 60 FPS, with the lowest result being 92.4 FPS at 4K Ultra.

Q: How much performance is lost going from Low to Ultra at 1080p?

A: The average drops from 409.3 FPS on Low to 203.7 FPS on Ultra — Ultra still delivers roughly five times the playable threshold.

Q: How does this combo rank among all tested Inside configurations?

A: Rank 803 out of 3716 tested combinations.

Q: What CPU or GPU substitutions would perform similarly?

A: The AMD Ryzen 9 7950X, Ryzen 9 7940HX, Ryzen 7 9700F, and EPYC 9115 are all within about one percent of the i7-14700K's average score; the GTX TITAN Z, RX 6800S, RTX 3080 Mobile, and RTX 2080 SUPER are the RX 9070's nearest rivals, all within roughly one percent on aggregate GPU score.

The Verdict

Yes — and emphatically so. The verdict data shows that at every tested resolution, all four presets (Low, Medium, High, Ultra) are playable above the 60 FPS threshold.

• 1920x1080: Best settings are Ultra, averaging 203.7 FPS.
• 2560x1440: Best settings are Ultra, averaging 150.4 FPS.
• 3840x2160: Best settings are Ultra, averaging 92.4 FPS.

There is no configuration decision to make here. A player can plug in a 4K display, max every setting, and still enjoy frame rates suitable for high-refresh gaming. Even the worst-case measured result — 92.4 FPS — sits more than fifty percent above the playability line. For a puzzle platformer released in 2016, this hardware pairing removes performance from the conversation entirely.

Measured FPS Breakdown

All figures are measured averages; minimum and maximum frame rates were not recorded for these runs.

1920x1080:

• Low: 409.3 avg FPS
• Medium: 347.8 avg FPS
• High: 219.2 avg FPS
• Ultra: 203.7 avg FPS

2560x1440:

• Low: 310 avg FPS
• Medium: 248.2 avg FPS
• High: 154.4 avg FPS
• Ultra: 150.4 avg FPS

3840x2160:

• Low: 193.7 avg FPS
• Medium: 156.6 avg FPS
• High: 95.3 avg FPS
• Ultra: 92.4 avg FPS

The pattern is consistent: a steep cliff between Medium and High at every resolution, then a shallow drop from High to Ultra. At 1080p, Medium to High costs 127.6 FPS; High to Ultra costs only 15.5 FPS. The same shape repeats at 1440p (93.8 FPS lost from Medium to High, 4 FPS from High to Ultra) and 4K (61.3 FPS lost, then 2.9 FPS). Whatever the High preset enables — likely a heavier post-processing or shadow load — accounts for nearly all of the image-quality cost. Ultra adds visual refinement at almost no frame-rate expense.

Best Settings per Resolution

Using the 60 FPS threshold, the most demanding preset that stays at or above 60 FPS at each resolution is Ultra across the board:

• 1920x1080 — Ultra: 203.7 avg FPS (over three times the threshold)
• 2560x1440 — Ultra: 150.4 avg FPS (two and a half times the threshold)
• 3840x2160 — Ultra: 92.4 avg FPS (still comfortably above the threshold)

Since Ultra is the most demanding preset tested and it clears 60 FPS everywhere, there is no trade-off to navigate. A secondary consideration for high-refresh display owners: if the goal is maximizing frame rate rather than image quality, Low at 1080p delivers 409.3 FPS, and even 4K Low manages 193.7 FPS.

CPU and GPU Roles

Which component matters more for Inside on this pairing? The scaling data points firmly at the GPU — and only barely at that.

Consider the resolution scaling at a fixed preset. On Ultra, moving from 1920x1080 (203.7 FPS) to 3840x2160 (92.4 FPS) quadruples the pixel count and costs 54.6% of the frame rate. That is classic GPU-bound behavior: frame rate falls as render load rises, meaning the RX 9070 is the active limiter at higher resolutions. The Core i7-14700K, by contrast, shows no evidence of constraint anywhere in the data — if the CPU were the ceiling, frame rates would flatten across resolutions instead of scaling downward.

Preset scaling tells a complementary story. The large Medium-to-High drop at every resolution (347.8 to 219.2 FPS at 1080p, for example) reflects GPU-rendered effects work, again implicating the graphics side. Meanwhile the CPU's credentials are frankly irrelevant to this title: a processor with a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 33440.5 and a PassMark single-thread score of 4472, sitting in the 94th percentile of all CPUs, is feeding a game whose engine was built for far weaker hardware.

Even at 4K Ultra, the RX 9070 — with 3584 shading units, 16 GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus, and 644.6 GB/s of memory bandwidth — delivers 92.4 FPS in a puzzle platformer. The honest conclusion is that neither component is meaningfully challenged. At lower resolutions the GPU runs closer to its ceiling (409.3 FPS at 1080p Low suggests engine or platform limits may eventually intervene), and the CPU never leaves idle territory by this game's standards. For Inside, the GPU is the component that sets the frame rate, and the i7-14700K is simply along for the ride.