Inside

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT paired with the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX delivers exceptionally high frame rates in Inside, a 2016 Puzzle Platformer. The measured data shows this combination is capable of pushing far beyond standard display refresh rates at every tested setting and resolution, with the primary bottleneck shifting from the GPU at 4K to the CPU at lower resolutions. This analysis breaks down the scaling behavior, component roles, and exact performance metrics observed.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate data reveals a clear and predictable pattern of scaling as resolution increases, though the magnitude of the drop varies significantly by preset. At 1080p Low, the combo achieves 304.6 FPS; moving to 1440p Low reduces this to 276.9 FPS, a modest decline of 27.7 FPS. The step to 4K Low yields 236.5 FPS, representing a further 40.4 FPS reduction. This gradual decline at Low settings indicates the system is not purely GPU-limited, as the RX 7900 XTX has substantial headroom at these lower resolutions.

The scaling behavior changes character when examining heavier presets. At High settings, the transition from 1080p (235.4 FPS) to 1440p (192.8 FPS) costs 42.6 FPS, while the jump to 4K (122.7 FPS) removes another 70.1 FPS. The Ultra preset shows the steepest absolute drop: 229.9 FPS at 1080p falls to 181.0 FPS at 1440p, then plummets to 114.0 FPS at 4K. The percentage loss from 1080p to 4K at Ultra is approximately 50%, whereas at Low it is roughly 22%. This widening gap as settings increase strongly suggests that at 4K Ultra, the GPU is becoming the limiting component, while at 1080p Low, the CPU's single-thread performance caps the frame rate.

The data indicates that the RX 7900 XTX has ample compute capacity for Inside. The difference between 4K Low (236.5 FPS) and 4K Ultra (114.0 FPS) is 122.5 FPS, demonstrating that the GPU's workload scales dramatically with visual fidelity. Conversely, the difference between 1080p Low and 4K Low is only 68.1 FPS, suggesting that even at 4K, the game's relatively simple geometry and effects (due to its 2016 release) do not fully saturate the GPU's 61.39 TFLOPS of FP32 throughput.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT is a 6-core, 12-thread processor based on the Zen 3 architecture, running at a base clock of 3.60 GHz and a boost clock of 4.60 GHz. For a puzzle platformer like Inside, which typically relies on a limited number of threads for game logic and physics, the single-thread performance is often more critical than raw multi-core throughput. The benchmark data shows a single-thread score of 913 in 3dmark_single_thread and 2438 in cinebench_r23_singlecore. These scores position the CPU in the 78th percentile versus all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 20740.

The CPU's influence is most apparent in the 1080p results, particularly at Low settings where the frame rate reaches 304.6 FPS. This high value indicates the CPU can feed the GPU with enough draw calls to maintain a very high frame rate, but the fact that it does not go higher suggests a ceiling. Comparing the 1080p Low result to the 1440p Low result (276.9 FPS) shows a 27.7 FPS drop, which is relatively small. However, at 1080p Ultra (229.9 FPS), the frame rate is lower than at 1080p Medium (283.0 FPS), a difference of 53.1 FPS, showing that the GPU is now doing more work per frame.

In terms of cache hierarchy, the CPU has 64 KB of L1 cache per core, 512 KB of L2 per core, and a 16 MB L3 cache. This configuration is adequate for a game of Inside's scope, but the dual-channel DDR4 memory bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s could theoretically be a limiting factor at extreme frame rates. The data does not show a clear memory bottleneck, as the frame rates scale with resolution and settings in a logical manner. The CPU's performance relative to its nearest rivals is essentially identical: it sits within 0.5% of the Intel Core i7-10700 and the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, with deltaPct values of 0 and 0.3, respectively.

How This Combo Ranks

Within the benchmark database, this specific CPU-GPU combination is ranked 330 out of 1671 tested combos for Inside. This places it in the top 20% of all tested systems, which is a strong showing for a game that is not exceptionally demanding on modern hardware. The rank reflects the combined capability of the Ryzen 5 5600GT and the RX 7900 XTX to produce high frame rates across all tested configurations.

The ranking is likely buoyed by the GPU's massive memory bandwidth and compute resources. The RX 7900 XTX has a 384-bit memory bus with 24 GB of GDDR6 memory, providing 960.0 GB/s of bandwidth. This is crucial for high-resolution rendering, but for a game like Inside, the sheer pixel throughput of 479.6 GPixel/s and texture rate of 959.2 GTexel/s are more relevant. The combo's rank of 330 suggests that while it is not the absolute fastest (which would be rank 1), it outperforms the vast majority of systems, including those with potentially newer CPUs but weaker GPUs.

The fact that the combo achieves over 100 FPS even at 4K Ultra (114.0 FPS) indicates that the GPU is doing the heavy lifting at that resolution, while the CPU is sufficient to avoid becoming a severe bottleneck. The rank is a holistic measure, but the data suggests it is driven by the GPU's ability to maintain high frame rates at 4K, a task that many other GPUs would struggle with.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data provides a comprehensive view of performance across three resolutions and four settings presets.

At 1920x1080, the combo delivers its highest frame rates. The Low preset yields an average of 304.6 FPS, which is the maximum recorded in the dataset. Medium follows closely at 283.0 FPS, a 21.6 FPS reduction. High settings produce 235.4 FPS, a further 47.6 FPS drop from Medium. Ultra is the most demanding at 1080p, with an average of 229.9 FPS, which is only 5.5 FPS lower than High. This narrowing gap between High and Ultra at 1080p suggests the CPU is starting to limit performance, as the additional GPU load from Ultra settings does not translate into a proportional frame rate drop.

At 2560x1440, the frame rates remain high but show a more distinct separation between presets. Low yields 276.9 FPS, which is 27.7 FPS lower than the 1080p Low result. Medium achieves 251.4 FPS, a 31.6 FPS drop from Low. High delivers 192.8 FPS, a significant 58.6 FPS reduction from Medium. Ultra produces 181.0 FPS, which is 11.8 FPS lower than High. The relative drop from Low to Ultra at 1440p is 95.9 FPS, compared to 74.7 FPS at 1080p, indicating that the GPU is becoming more of a factor at this resolution.

At 3840x2160, the GPU is clearly the primary bottleneck. Low settings yield 236.5 FPS, which is still very high but 40.4 FPS lower than the 1440p Low result. Medium drops to 190.5 FPS, a 46.0 FPS reduction from Low. High falls to 122.7 FPS, a substantial 67.8 FPS drop from Medium. Ultra is the most demanding, with an average of 114.0 FPS, only 8.7 FPS lower than High. The small difference between High and Ultra at 4K (8.7 FPS) contrasts sharply with the 1080p difference (5.5 FPS), suggesting that at 4K, the GPU is saturated and the extra load from Ultra settings has a diminishing impact on frame rate.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX is a flagship GPU built on the RDNA 3.0 architecture with the Navi 31 chip. It features 6144 shading units, 384 texture mapping units, and 192 raster operation units. The GPU operates at a base clock of 1929 MHz and a boost clock of 2498 MHz, with a game clock of 2365 MHz. These specifications translate to a pixel rate of 479.6 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 959.2 GTexel/s. The GPU's 24 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 384-bit bus provides 960.0 GB/s of bandwidth, which is critical for maintaining high frame rates at 4K.

In Inside, the GPU's role is dominant at higher resolutions. The data shows that from 1080p to 4K, the frame rate drops by an average of 40-50% depending on the preset. This is typical for a game where the rendering workload scales with pixel count. The GPU's 61.39 TFLOPS of FP32 performance is more than sufficient for this game, as evidenced by the fact that even at 4K Ultra, the combo maintains 114.0 FPS. The GPU's benchmark scores reinforce this: it achieved a Passmark G3D score of 31238 and a 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 6841, placing it in the 85th percentile versus all GPUs.

The GPU's performance relative to its rivals is tight. It is 0.8% ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile and 1.6% ahead of the NVIDIA Quadro M6000, while being 2.0% behind the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti and 0.4% behind the AMD Radeon Pro 580. These deltas are negligible in real-world gaming, but the measured FPS in Inside confirms that the RX 7900 XTX is capable of pushing extremely high frame rates, particularly at 1440p and 4K where its memory bandwidth and compute throughput are fully utilized. The GPU's 96 ray accelerators and support for DirectX 12 Ultimate are unlikely to be stressed by this title, but they ensure compatibility with modern rendering features.