Inside

The AMD Ryzen 5 7600 paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 delivers a remarkably consistent experience in Inside, a game whose minimalist aesthetic and 2D side-scrolling perspective place modest demands on modern hardware. The measured frame rates across all resolutions and settings indicate that this combo is never truly bottlenecked, though the data reveals clear thresholds where visual fidelity can be maximized without sacrificing smoothness.

Settings Recommendations

For this combination, the High preset represents the optimal balance between image quality and frame rate stability. At 1920x1080, High settings produce an average of 128 FPS, which is more than sufficient for the game's deliberate pacing and puzzle-solving mechanics. The jump to Medium only adds 77 FPS (205 vs. 128), a difference that is imperceptible on most displays and comes at the cost of reduced shadow quality and texture filtering. Meanwhile, Ultra settings at 1080p drop the average to 122 FPS, a mere 6 FPS below High, suggesting that the extra fidelity options in Ultra are not heavily taxing this hardware.

At 2560x1440, the High preset again emerges as the recommended choice. The average of 92 FPS remains comfortably above the 60 FPS threshold for smooth gameplay, and the visual upgrade from 1080p is substantial on a 1440p panel. Medium at this resolution delivers 147 FPS, but the gap to High is only 55 FPS, and the visual degradation is more noticeable at this pixel density. Ultra at 1440p drops to 88 FPS, which is still playable but begins to approach the lower boundary where frame pacing issues can become apparent in a game that relies on precise timing for its platforming sections.

For 4K (3840x2160), the data tells a different story. High settings yield 58 FPS, which is just below the ideal 60 FPS target but generally acceptable for a puzzle platformer where twitch reactions are not required. Medium at 4K produces 93 FPS, a significant improvement that makes it the best choice for 4K owners who prioritize smoothness over the marginal visual enhancements of High. The Low preset at 4K reaches 116 FPS, but the reduction in ambient occlusion and shadow resolution is plainly visible on a large 4K display, making it a less attractive option unless the user has a high-refresh-rate 4K monitor (which is uncommon for this class of GPU). Ultra at 4K drops to 55 FPS, making it the only preset that falls below the 60 FPS threshold, and the visual gains over High are minimal in a game with such a subdued art style.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 is built on the Turing architecture with a 12 nm process node and features 6 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus, providing a bandwidth of 336.0 GB/s. The GPU's base clock of 1365 MHz and boost clock of 1680 MHz are modest by modern standards, but the data shows that this is more than adequate for Inside. The card's 1920 shading units and 48 ROPs handle the game's 2D rendering with ease, and the 80.64 GPixel/s pixel rate ensures that even the most complex particle effects or lighting transitions in the game's darker sequences do not cause frame drops.

The 6 GB VRAM capacity is never a limiting factor in Inside, as the game's textures are relatively low-resolution by design. The measured FPS at 4K High (58 FPS) versus 4K Medium (93 FPS) indicates that memory bandwidth is not the primary constraint; rather, the GPU's compute throughput is being challenged by the higher resolution's fill rate demands. The RTX 2060's FP32 performance of 6.451 TFLOPS is sufficient for the game's shader work, but the data shows a clear scaling pattern: as resolution increases, the gap between settings presets narrows, which is characteristic of a GPU-bound scenario at higher pixel counts.

Interestingly, the RTX 2060's nearest rivals in benchmark scores include the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 (0% delta), the AMD Radeon 680M (0.1% delta), and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM (0.6% delta). This places the RTX 2060 in a performance tier that is well above the minimum requirements for Inside, and the measured FPS confirms that the GPU is never the bottleneck at 1080p or 1440p, even at Ultra settings.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS scaling from 1080p to 4K reveals a predictable pattern of GPU-bound performance at higher resolutions. At High settings, the average FPS drops from 128 at 1080p to 92 at 1440p (a 28% reduction) and then to 58 at 4K (a 37% reduction from 1440p). This scaling is roughly proportional to the pixel count increase: 1440p has 1.78 times the pixels of 1080p, and 4K has 2.25 times the pixels of 1440p. The slightly steeper drop from 1440p to 4K suggests that the RTX 2060's fill rate and memory bandwidth are becoming more significant factors at 4K.

At Medium settings, the scaling is similar but with higher absolute values: 205 FPS at 1080p, 147 FPS at 1440p, and 93 FPS at 4K. The percentage drops are 28% and 37%, respectively, indicating that the GPU is consistently the limiting component across all settings when moving to higher resolutions. The Low preset shows the same pattern: 256 FPS at 1080p, 184 FPS at 1440p, and 116 FPS at 4K, with drops of 28% and 37%.

The data strongly suggests that the CPU (AMD Ryzen 5 7600) is not a limiting factor at any resolution. If the CPU were the bottleneck, we would expect to see a smaller FPS drop when increasing resolution, as the GPU would have more headroom to work with. Instead, the near-identical percentage drops across all settings presets indicate that the GPU is the primary constraint, especially at 4K where even the Low preset cannot maintain the 256 FPS seen at 1080p.

How This Combo Ranks

In the benchmark database, this combination of AMD Ryzen 5 7600 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 ranks 2915 out of 3716 tested combos for Inside. This places it in the bottom half of all configurations, which is expected given the age of the GPU relative to newer hardware. However, the ranking is somewhat misleading because the game's requirements are so low that even this mid-range-tier combo achieves playable frame rates at all settings and resolutions.

The CPU's benchmark scores provide context for the combo's ranking. The Ryzen 5 7600 has an average benchmark score of 26324, which places it in the 78th percentile of all CPUs. Its nearest rivals include the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX (0.2% higher score), the AMD Ryzen 7 7435HS (0.3% lower), and the Intel Core i9-11900KF (0.4% higher). This indicates that the CPU is a strong performer in absolute terms, but the GPU's 58th percentile ranking (average score of 15290) drags the combo down in the overall ranking for Inside.

The GPU's nearest rivals in benchmark scores are the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 (0% delta), AMD Radeon 680M (0.1% delta), and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM (0.6% delta). The fact that the RTX 2060 scores nearly identically to a GTX 580, a GPU from 2010, highlights how much the GPU market has evolved, yet for Inside, the RTX 2060's Turing-era features such as 30 RT cores and 240 tensor cores are irrelevant, and the game only exercises the traditional rasterization pipeline.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 5 7600 is a 6-core, 12-thread processor from the 7000 series, based on the Zen 4 architecture (codenamed Raphael) and fabricated on TSMC's 5 nm process. Its base clock of 3.80 GHz and boost clock of 5.10 GHz, combined with a 32 MB L3 cache, provide ample single-thread and multi-thread performance for Inside. The CPU's benchmark scores support this: a Cinebench R23 single-core score of 1852 and multi-core score of 12735, with a Geekbench single-core score of 2521 and multi-core score of 13413.

In Inside, the CPU's role is minimal because the game's 2D rendering and physics calculations are not heavily threaded. The data shows that at 1080p Low, the combo achieves 256 FPS, which is likely near the game's engine limit. The CPU's 3DMark single-thread score of 999 and 2-thread score of 1938 indicate strong per-core performance, which is what matters for a game that likely uses only a few threads for its main loop.

The Ryzen 5 7600's memory support for DDR5 with dual-channel configuration and 83.2 GB/s bandwidth is more than sufficient for the game's modest memory bandwidth requirements. The CPU's integrated Radeon Graphics are not utilized in this configuration, but their presence does not affect performance. The 65 W TDP and 6,570 million transistors on a 71 mm² die show that this is a power-efficient chip, though power consumption is not a factor in the measured FPS data.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the combo delivers its highest frame rates across all settings. Low settings produce an average of 256 FPS, which is likely capped by the game engine or the display refresh rate rather than hardware limits. Medium settings yield 205 FPS (with a minimum of 174 and maximum of 236), High settings produce 128 FPS, and Ultra settings achieve 122 FPS. The relatively small gap between High and Ultra (6 FPS) suggests that Ultra's additional effects, such as higher-quality shadows or post-processing, are not significantly taxing the GPU at this resolution.

At 2560x1440, the frame rates remain high but show the expected drop. Low settings average 184 FPS, Medium averages 147 FPS (minimum 125, maximum 169), High averages 92 FPS, and Ultra averages 88 FPS. The gap between High and Ultra narrows to 4 FPS, and the gap between Medium and High widens to 55 FPS, indicating that the Medium to High transition involves more substantial visual changes that impact GPU performance.

At 3840x2160, the GPU becomes the clear limiting factor. Low settings average 116 FPS, Medium averages 93 FPS (minimum 79, maximum 106), High averages 58 FPS, and Ultra averages 55 FPS. The drop from Medium to High is 35 FPS, while the drop from High to Ultra is only 3 FPS. This suggests that the Ultra preset at 4K is not worth the performance cost, as the visual improvements are imperceptible at this resolution on the game's art style. The minimum FPS of 79 at 4K Medium indicates that even in the most demanding scenes, the combo maintains smooth performance, while the 4K High and Ultra presets dip below the 60 FPS threshold, which could be noticeable during fast-moving sequences or when the screen is filled with dynamic lighting effects.