Inside

The AMD Ryzen 5 4600G paired with the AMD Radeon RX 7600 delivers a remarkably consistent experience in Inside, a game that clearly favors high frame rates over raw graphical fidelity. The dataset shows this combo is capable of pushing this puzzle platformer well past the 60 FPS threshold at nearly every setting, with the only exceptions appearing at 4K Ultra and High presets. This pairing behaves exactly as expected for a game of this genre: the CPU provides ample headroom, while the GPU becomes the primary scaling factor at higher resolutions.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate progression from 1080p to 4K reveals a textbook GPU-bound scenario. At 1920x1080 with Medium settings, the combo produces an average of 224 FPS. Moving to 2560x1440 at the same settings drops that to 162 FPS, a reduction of 62 FPS or roughly 28%. The jump to 3840x2160 at Medium yields 102 FPS, another 60 FPS drop from 1440p. This linear scaling pattern—where each resolution step costs approximately 60 FPS at Medium settings—indicates the RX 7600 is the performance limiter once you scale up pixel count.

The Low preset tells a similar story but with a steeper curve. At 1080p Low, the combo hits 243 FPS. At 1440p Low, it still manages 203 FPS, but 4K Low drops to 127 FPS. The 4K Low result being less than half of the 1080p Low figure suggests the GPU is being saturated by the sheer pixel throughput, even with minimal graphical work. Meanwhile, the High preset shows 141 FPS at 1080p, 101 FPS at 1440p, and 64 FPS at 4K. The gap between 1080p and 4K at High is 77 FPS, confirming that resolution scaling is aggressive and consistent across presets.

Ultra settings at 4K produce 61 FPS, which is the only configuration that dips near the 60 FPS line. Comparing 1080p Ultra (134 FPS) to 4K Ultra (61 FPS) shows a 73 FPS loss, nearly identical to the High preset's 77 FPS loss. This consistency across presets strongly implies the limiting component at higher resolutions is the GPU's fill rate and memory bandwidth, not the CPU. The data shows no scenario where the CPU bottleneck appears—even at 1080p Low, the frame rate remains well above what a six-core Zen 2 chip would cap in a lightweight title like this.

CPU Role

The Ryzen 5 4600G brings six cores and twelve threads, with a base clock of 3.70 GHz and a boost clock of 4.20 GHz. For a puzzle platformer like Inside, these specifications are more than sufficient. The CPU's 3DMark single-thread score of 726 and multi-thread score of 4889 place it in the 71st percentile of all CPUs, indicating solid but not exceptional processing power. Its nearest rivals include the AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 5355GE with an average score of 17482 (0.1% lower) and the Intel Core i3-14100T at 17648 (0.8% higher), showing it sits in a competitive mid-range tier.

The 8 MB of shared L3 cache is adequate for a game that does not demand extensive asset streaming. PassMark results show a single-thread score of 2653 and a multithread score of 15992, with physics performance at 676. These numbers suggest the CPU can handle the game's logic and any background tasks without becoming a limiting factor. The fact that frame rates at 1080p Low reach 243 FPS, while the CPU's 3DMark 16-thread score is 4863, indicates the processor is not near its ceiling in this workload.

The CPU's release in July 2020 at a launch MSRP of $154 positions it as a budget-friendly option, but its performance here shows it punches above its weight class. In a game where the CPU rarely needs to work hard, the 4600G's Zen 2 architecture provides stable frame pacing. The benchmark results show no frame drops or stutter patterns that would indicate CPU limitations, even at the lowest settings where the GPU has the least work to do. The 65 W TDP and AM4 socket compatibility make it a practical choice for existing platforms, but the data confirms it is not the star of this show—it simply does its job without complaint.

How This Combo Ranks

Within the database of tested combinations, this pairing of the Ryzen 5 4600G and RX 7600 achieves a combo rank of 2710 out of 3716 total combinations. That places it in the lower third of all tested combos, at roughly the 27th percentile. This ranking might seem surprising given the frame rates observed, but it reflects the fact that the CPU is a mid-range part from 2020, while the GPU, despite being newer, also sits in the mid-range tier.

The GPU's percentile versus all GPUs is 57, meaning it outperforms 57% of all graphics cards in the benchmark suite. Its average benchmark score of 15171 places it near the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM (15199, 0.2% higher) and the AMD Radeon 680M (15270, 0.7% higher). The CPU's percentile of 71 against all CPUs is higher than the GPU's percentile, suggesting the processor is relatively stronger compared to its peers than the graphics card is against its own competition. This dynamic explains why the combo rank is lower than either component's individual percentile—the pairing does not unlock any exceptional synergy.

The rank of 2710 out of 3716 combos means there are 1006 tested combinations that perform worse, but also a substantial number that perform better. For a game like Inside, which is not graphically demanding, many combos with faster CPUs or GPUs will naturally achieve higher frame rates. The practical takeaway is that while this combo does not top any charts, it delivers playable performance in this title across almost all settings, which is the more relevant metric for a puzzle platformer than raw benchmark ranking.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the measured results show a wide spread based on settings. Low preset produces 243 FPS average, Medium drops to 224 FPS with a minimum of 190 and maximum of 258, High yields 141 FPS, and Ultra brings 134 FPS. The gap between Low and Medium is only 19 FPS, but the jump from Medium to High costs 83 FPS, indicating a significant graphical workload increase between those presets. Ultra is only 7 FPS lower than High, suggesting diminishing returns at the top end.

Moving to 2560x1440, Low delivers 203 FPS, Medium drops to 162 FPS with a range of 138 to 186, High produces 101 FPS, and Ultra falls to 97 FPS. The drop from Low to Medium is 41 FPS, and from Medium to High is 61 FPS. Ultra is just 4 FPS below High, maintaining the same pattern seen at 1080p. At this resolution, even Ultra settings stay well above the 60 FPS floor, making 1440p a sweet spot for this combo.

At 3840x2160, the data shows Low at 127 FPS, Medium at 102 FPS with a minimum of 87 and maximum of 117, High at 64 FPS, and Ultra at 61 FPS. The 4K Medium result has a minimum of 87 FPS, which is still smooth, but the High and Ultra presets hover near the 60 FPS mark. The difference between High and Ultra at 4K is only 3 FPS, making the choice between them almost irrelevant from a performance standpoint. The 4K Low to Medium drop is 25 FPS, and the Medium to High drop is 38 FPS, showing that the GPU's workload scales steeply at this resolution.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 7600 is built on the RDNA 3.0 architecture with the Navi 33 chip, manufactured on a 6 nm process. It features 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus, providing 288.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The boost clock of 2655 MHz and game clock of 2250 MHz give it a theoretical FP32 performance of 21.75 TFLOPS. These specifications place it at the 57th percentile of all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 15171.

For Inside, the GPU's 8 GB of VRAM is more than sufficient, as the game's simple art style does not demand large texture pools. The 128-bit memory bus and 288.0 GB/s bandwidth are adequate for the pixel throughput required at 4K, though the data shows a clear performance cliff between Medium and High presets at that resolution. The GPU's 2048 shading units and 64 ROPs handle the game's rendering efficiently, but the limited memory bandwidth becomes apparent when fill rate demands increase.

The GPU's nearest rivals include the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM with a 0.2% higher score and the AMD Radeon Pro 560X with a 0.6% lower score. The RX 7600's DirectX 12 score of 58 in PassMark and DirectX 11 score of 172 indicate it performs better in older APIs, which aligns with Inside's 2016 release date. The GPU's 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 2310 suggests it handles modern workloads well, but this game does not push those features. The 165 W TDP and 450 W suggested PSU make it a practical fit for most systems, and its performance in this title shows it is the component that determines the frame rate ceiling at higher resolutions.

Settings Recommendations

The measured data points to Medium settings as the optimal balance for this combo. At 1080p Medium, the average of 224 FPS with a minimum of 190 ensures flawless smoothness on any display. At 1440p Medium, the 162 FPS average with a minimum of 138 remains far above the refresh rate of most monitors. Even at 4K Medium, the 102 FPS average with a minimum of 87 provides a comfortable experience, making this the only preset that delivers high frame rates across all three resolutions.

High settings are playable but less ideal. At 1080p High, 141 FPS is still excellent, and 1440p High at 101 FPS is fine, but 4K High drops to 64 FPS, which is borderline for a game that benefits from high refresh rates. Ultra settings offer no meaningful advantage over High in this title, as the frame rate difference is minimal (134 vs 141 FPS at 1080p, 97 vs 101 FPS at 1440p, 61 vs 64 FPS at 4K). The visual uplift from High to Ultra is likely imperceptible in a puzzle platformer with simple geometry.

Low settings push frame rates to extreme levels—243 FPS at 1080p and 203 FPS at 1440p—but such high numbers are unnecessary for this game's gameplay. The data suggests that players with 144 Hz monitors should use Medium at 1440p for the best balance of visual quality and performance. For 4K displays, Medium is the only viable preset that stays above 90 FPS, while High and Ultra hover near 60 FPS. Given that the GPU's VRAM is not stressed by this title, the limiting factor at 4K is raw compute and bandwidth, so Medium settings provide the most headroom without sacrificing the game's aesthetic.