Inside

Inside is a 2016 puzzle platformer from Playdead, and the benchmark data for the AMD Ryzen 5 5600G paired with the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT shows a title that is extraordinarily easy to drive at high frame rates, even at 4K resolution. The measured results indicate that the GPU is rarely the limiting factor, with the system’s performance scaling in a way that suggests the CPU and its memory subsystem play a more significant role in determining the final output. The data set provides a clear picture of how this combination behaves across three resolutions and four quality presets, revealing a performance profile that is both consistent and revealing about the hardware’s strengths.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate drop from 1080p to 4K is surprisingly modest, which is a strong indicator that the game is not heavily GPU-bound at lower resolutions. At High settings, the average frame rate falls from 222.5 FPS at 1920x1080 to 164.3 FPS at 2560x1440, a reduction of roughly 26%. Moving to 3840x2160, the average dips further to 103.7 FPS, which represents a 53% drop from the 1080p figure. This steep decline at 4K suggests that the Radeon RX 9070 XT is finally being pushed to its limits, but the absolute numbers remain exceptionally high for a game of this visual complexity.

The scaling pattern is more telling when examining the Low preset. At 1080p Low, the system achieves an average of 289.6 FPS. At 1440p Low, that number drops to 258.9 FPS, and at 4K Low it settles at 207.5 FPS. The difference between 1080p and 4K at Low settings is only 28%, which is a much smaller penalty than what is seen at High settings. This indicates that at lower quality presets, the frame rate is being throttled by something other than the GPU’s pixel throughput, likely the CPU’s ability to feed the render thread with draw calls and physics updates.

The Ultra preset shows the most significant resolution scaling, with averages of 220.1 FPS at 1080p, 156.6 FPS at 1440p, and 97.1 FPS at 4K. The 4K Ultra result is the only instance in the entire data set where the system dips below the 100 FPS mark, suggesting that this is the point where the combination of the GPU’s compute load and memory bandwidth finally becomes the dominant constraint. Overall, the data shows that Inside scales predictably with resolution, but the relatively small gaps at Low and Medium presets reveal a bottleneck that is not purely graphical.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is a high-end graphics card built on the RDNA 4.0 architecture, featuring 16 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus, yielding a bandwidth of 644.6 GB/s. With a boost clock of 2970 MHz and a game clock of 2400 MHz, this GPU is clearly designed for high-throughput rendering. In Inside, the GPU’s role is largely to handle the game’s minimalist 2.5D environments and lighting effects, which are not particularly demanding by modern standards. The benchmark results confirm this, as the card is able to maintain triple-digit frame rates at 4K High, which confirms its raw compute power.

The memory configuration deserves attention. The 16 GB frame buffer is more than sufficient for a game like Inside, which does not require large texture pools. The 644.6 GB/s of bandwidth is likely a more critical factor, as the game’s side-scrolling camera and constant streaming of level geometry can benefit from quick data transfers. However, the performance difference between the Medium and High presets at 4K (167.3 FPS vs 103.7 FPS) suggests that certain effects, possibly related to shadow resolution or post-processing, are taxing the GPU’s shader units more than its memory subsystem.

The GPU’s nearest rivals in the benchmark database include the AMD Radeon Pro 575 and the NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile, with performance deltas of -0.1% and 0.2%, respectively. This places the RX 9070 XT in a peculiar position, as these are not consumer gaming cards, yet the scores are comparable. The data indicates that for Inside, the GPU is rarely the limiting factor except at the most demanding settings, where its 48.66 TFLOPS of FP32 compute is still able to produce frame rates well above the 60 FPS threshold for smooth gameplay.

FAQ

Q: What is the highest average frame rate recorded for this hardware combination in Inside?

A: The highest average frame rate is 289.6 FPS, achieved at 1920x1080 resolution with the Low settings preset.

Q: How does the system perform at 4K Ultra settings?

A: At 3840x2160 with Ultra settings, the system produces an average of 97.1 FPS, which is the lowest frame rate recorded in the entire benchmark data set.

Q: Is the CPU or GPU more likely to be the bottleneck at 1080p?

A: The data suggests the CPU is the primary limiter at 1080p. The difference between Low (289.6 FPS) and Ultra (220.1 FPS) at 1080p is only 24%, indicating that the Ryzen 5 5600G cannot push the frame rate much higher despite the GPU’s capacity.

Q: What is the frame rate drop from 1440p to 4K at High settings?

A: At High settings, the average frame rate drops from 164.3 FPS at 2560x1440 to 103.7 FPS at 3840x2160, a reduction of approximately 37%.

Q: How does the RX 9070 XT compare to its nearest rival in terms of average benchmark score?

A: The RX 9070 XT has an average benchmark score of 39647, which is 0.1% lower than the AMD Radeon Pro 575 and 0.2% higher than the NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile.

Q: Does the game ever drop below 100 FPS in the measured scenarios?

A: Yes, only at 3840x2160 with the Ultra settings preset, where the average frame rate falls to 97.1 FPS.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The complete set of measured results for this configuration is as follows. At 1920x1080, the Low preset delivers an average of 289.6 FPS, Medium produces 266.6 FPS, High reaches 222.5 FPS, and Ultra achieves 220.1 FPS. The progression shows that the step from Medium to High incurs a larger performance penalty than the step from High to Ultra, which suggests that the Medium preset lacks certain effects that are enabled at High, but the additional settings at Ultra have minimal cost.

At 2560x1440, the averages are 258.9 FPS for Low, 241.6 FPS for Medium, 164.3 FPS for High, and 156.6 FPS for Ultra. The gap between Medium and High at 1440p is notably larger than at 1080p, indicating that the GPU is beginning to feel the strain of the higher pixel count. The difference between High and Ultra at this resolution is only 7.7 FPS, reinforcing the idea that Ultra settings add little visual overhead on top of High.

At 3840x2160, the data shows 207.5 FPS for Low, 167.3 FPS for Medium, 103.7 FPS for High, and 97.1 FPS for Ultra. The dramatic drop from Medium to High at 4K (a 64% reduction) highlights that the High preset likely enables computationally expensive effects like advanced lighting or particle simulations. The system ranks 513th out of 1671 combinations tested for Inside, placing it in the top third of all hardware configurations in the database.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600G is a 6-core, 12-thread processor based on the Zen 3 architecture, with a base clock of 3.90 GHz and a boost clock of 4.40 GHz. It features 16 MB of L3 cache and supports DDR4 memory with a bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s. In Inside, the CPU’s role is critical because the game’s 2D side-scrolling nature relies heavily on a single main thread for game logic and physics, with secondary threads handling audio and streaming. The benchmark data shows that the 5600G is capable of driving frame rates well beyond 200 FPS at 1080p, which suggests that its strong single-thread performance, evidenced by a 3dmark single-thread score of 872 and a Cinebench R23 single-core score of 2365, is sufficient for this workload.

The CPU’s average benchmark score of 19983 places it nearly even with the Intel Core i7-11600H, which has a deltaPct of 0.2%, and slightly behind the Intel Core i7-11800H at -0.2%. This parity indicates that the 5600G’s processing power is competitive with modern mobile chips, but it is not a high-end desktop part. The data from Inside shows that the CPU becomes the limiting factor at lower resolutions, as the frame rates at 1080p Low and 1080p Ultra are only 24% apart, despite the GPU being capable of far higher output at Low settings.

The memory bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s is a potential constraint, as the CPU’s integrated memory controller must handle both game data and any potential iGPU tasks, though the discrete GPU handles rendering. The 16 MB L3 cache is moderate by modern standards, but for a game like Inside, which has a small working set, it is likely adequate. The CPU’s percentile ranking of 78 means it outperforms 78% of all CPUs in the database, and its multicore scores, such as the Cinebench R23 multicore result of 16758, show that it has headroom for multithreaded workloads, even if this specific game does not fully utilize it.