Inside

Settings Recommendations

The measured frame rates for Inside across four quality presets and three resolutions reveal a title that is exceptionally forgiving on modern hardware. At 1080p, the gap between the Low preset at 300.8 FPS and the Ultra preset at 190.8 FPS is substantial, but both are far beyond any display refresh rate in common use. The High preset at 198 FPS offers a 7.2 FPS advantage over Ultra while delivering nearly identical visual fidelity in this puzzle platformer, making it the statistically optimal choice for 1080p users seeking the best balance of image quality and headroom.

Moving to 1440p, the pattern holds. High produces 144.2 FPS against Ultra's 138.6 FPS, a margin of 5.6 FPS that is unlikely to be perceptible. The Low preset at 270.1 FPS and Medium at 229.9 FPS show that even mid-range settings are far above the 144 Hz threshold. For 1440p, the High preset remains the recommended setting: it sits 5.6 FPS ahead of Ultra and 85.7 FPS behind Low, placing it in a sweet spot where the visual enhancements of the High preset are paired with a frame rate that exceeds most high-refresh monitors.

At 4K, the situation becomes more interesting. The High preset delivers 92 FPS, which is already above the 60 FPS standard and within reach of 120 Hz displays. The Ultra preset drops to 87.2 FPS, a reduction of 4.8 FPS from High. The Medium preset at 146 FPS and Low at 181.5 FPS show that the GPU has ample headroom even at this resolution. The optimal experience at 4K is achieved with the High preset: it maintains 92 FPS while the Ultra preset's additional visual effects cost 4.8 FPS, a trade that offers diminishing returns in a game where the art direction relies more on atmosphere than on high-frequency detail.

Across all resolutions, the High preset emerges as the consistent recommendation. It never falls below 92 FPS, stays within 7.2 FPS of Ultra at 1080p, and provides the visual features that the game's moody lighting and environmental storytelling require. The data does not support using Low or Medium settings on this hardware, as the performance gains are unnecessary at every resolution tested.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the AMD Ryzen 7 5700 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti ranks 642nd out of 1,671 tested combos for Inside, placing it in the 61.6th percentile of all configurations. This position reflects a pairing that is well above average for this title, though not at the very top of the leaderboard. The rank suggests that while this combo handles Inside with substantial margin, there are configurations with even higher headroom, likely those with newer flagship GPUs or CPUs with higher single-thread performance.

The CPU component, the Ryzen 7 5700, sits in the 84th percentile among all CPUs in the database. Its average benchmark score of 27,220 places it within 0.7% of the Intel Core i9-9900K, which scores 27,043, and within 0.8% of both the Intel Core i7-12700H at 27,006 and the Intel Core i7-1370P at 26,991. The closest rival is the AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 at 26,909, which trails by 1.2%. These deltas are minimal, indicating that the Ryzen 7 5700 is squarely in a performance tier with several competing designs, none of which hold a meaningful advantage in synthetic testing.

The GPU, the RTX 3070 Ti, achieves the 74th percentile among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 30,849. Its nearest rivals show a tight cluster: the AMD Radeon RX 590 GME trails by 0.3% with a score of 30,755, the AMD Radeon RX 6700 leads by 0.8% with 31,112, the NVIDIA Quadro M5000 leads by 0.9% with 31,142, and the NVIDIA GRID M60-1Q leads by 1.2% with 31,220. The RTX 3070 Ti is effectively at parity with these products, none of which would be considered a direct successor or clear upgrade in this context.

The 642nd rank out of 1,671 combos indicates that the bottleneck in this pairing is not computational but rather the inherent limits of the game's engine. Inside is a puzzle platformer from 2016, and the frame rates measured—ranging from 87.2 FPS at 4K Ultra to 300.8 FPS at 1080p Low—demonstrate that the game is not demanding by modern standards. The combo's rank is therefore more a reflection of the hardware's overall capability than of any specific optimization for this title.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti brings 8 GB of GDDR6X memory across a 256-bit bus, yielding a memory bandwidth of 608.3 GB/s. The memory clock runs at 1188 MHz, which translates to 19 Gbps effective. These specifications are more than sufficient for Inside, a game that does not stress memory capacity or bandwidth; the measured frame rates show no signs of memory-related stuttering or texture pop-in even at 4K Ultra.

The GPU's base clock is 1575 MHz with a boost clock of 1770 MHz. The boost behavior is relevant because Inside's frame rates at 1080p Low (300.8 FPS) and 1440p Low (270.1 FPS) suggest that the GPU is rarely at full utilization at lower settings. At 4K High, the 92 FPS average indicates that the GPU is being pushed harder, but the 87.2 FPS at 4K Ultra shows that even the highest settings do not saturate the card's capabilities. The pixel rate of 169.9 GPixel/s and texture rate of 339.8 GTexel/s provide ample fill rate for the game's 2D-rendered 3D environments.

The RTX 3070 Ti's 6,144 shading units and 192 texture mapping units handle Inside's simple geometry with ease. The 96 ROPs ensure that even at 4K, the pixel throughput is not a limiting factor. The FP32 performance of 21.75 TFLOPS is far beyond what a puzzle platformer requires, and the DirectX 12 Ultimate support means the GPU can run the game with maximum compatibility. The 8 GB VRAM is never at risk of being exhausted; Inside's texture budgets are modest, and the measured frame rates confirm that memory pressure is not affecting performance at any resolution or preset.

The GPU's role in this combo is therefore one of over-provisioning. The RTX 3070 Ti is a high-end Ampere part, and Inside is an undemanding title. The benchmark results indicate that the GPU is the primary driver of frame rates at 4K, where the difference between Low (181.5 FPS) and Ultra (87.2 FPS) is 94.3 FPS, but at 1080p, the CPU begins to play a more significant role, as evidenced by the narrowing gap between settings.

FAQ

Q: What is the highest average frame rate achievable with this combo in Inside?

A: The highest measured average frame rate is 300.8 FPS at 1080p with the Low preset. The next highest is 280.4 FPS at 1080p Medium, followed by 270.1 FPS at 1440p Low.

Q: How does the Ultra preset compare to High at 4K?

A: At 3840x2160, the Ultra preset delivers 87.2 FPS, while High delivers 92 FPS. The Ultra preset is 4.8 FPS slower, a difference of approximately 5.2% relative to High.

Q: Is the CPU or GPU the limiting factor at 1080p?

A: At 1080p, the frame rates range from 190.8 FPS (Ultra) to 300.8 FPS (Low). The narrow spread between Medium (280.4 FPS) and Low (300.8 FPS) suggests that the CPU, with a single-thread score of 901 in 3DMark, is approaching its limit at these high frame rates, while the GPU has headroom.

Q: What is the combo's rank among all tested configurations?

A: The combo ranks 642nd out of 1,671 tested combinations for Inside. This places it in the upper 61.6% of all configurations tested for this game.

Q: How does the Ryzen 7 5700 compare to its closest rival in CPU benchmarks?

A: The Ryzen 7 5700 scores 27,220 on average, which is 0.7% higher than the Intel Core i9-9900K (27,043) and 0.8% higher than both the Intel Core i7-12700H (27,006) and the Intel Core i7-1370P (26,991). It leads the AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 (26,909) by 1.2%.

Q: What is the difference between the Low and Ultra presets at 1440p?

A: At 2560x1440, the Low preset achieves 270.1 FPS, while the Ultra preset achieves 138.6 FPS. The difference is 131.5 FPS, meaning Low is approximately 94.9% faster than Ultra at this resolution.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate progression from 1080p to 4K reveals how the workload shifts between CPU and GPU. At 1080p High, the combo delivers 198 FPS. At 1440p High, this drops to 144.2 FPS, a reduction of 53.8 FPS or 27.2%. At 4K High, the frame rate falls to 92 FPS, which is 52.2 FPS or 36.2% lower than 1440p High. The scaling from 1080p to 4K High is a total drop of 106 FPS, or 53.5%.

The Low preset shows a similar pattern but with steeper absolute drops. At 1080p Low, the frame rate is 300.8 FPS. At 1440p Low, it is 270.1 FPS, a drop of 30.7 FPS (10.2%). At 4K Low, it reaches 181.5 FPS, a drop of 88.6 FPS (32.8%) from 1440p. The percentage drop from 1080p to 4K Low is 39.7%, which is smaller than the 53.5% drop seen on the High preset.

The Ultra preset scales the most aggressively. At 1080p Ultra, the frame rate is 190.8 FPS. At 1440p Ultra, it is 138.6 FPS, a drop of 52.2 FPS (27.4%). At 4K Ultra, it falls to 87.2 FPS, a drop of 51.4 FPS (37.1%) from 1440p. The cumulative drop from 1080p to 4K Ultra is 103.6 FPS, or 54.3%.

The data shows that the GPU becomes the primary limiting component as resolution increases. At 1080p, the CPU's single-thread performance (901 in 3DMark) is sufficient to drive frame rates above 190 FPS on all presets, but the GPU's utilization scales with pixel count. The RTX 3070 Ti's 608.3 GB/s memory bandwidth and 169.9 GPixel/s pixel rate are sufficient for 4K, but the rendering load at 4K Ultra (87.2 FPS) is nearly double the load at 4K Low (181.5 FPS), indicating that the GPU's shading units and texture units are the limiting factor at higher presets.

The scaling behavior confirms that this combo is GPU-limited at 4K and CPU-limited at 1080p. At 1440p, the balance shifts, with the High preset (144.2 FPS) representing the point where both components are adequately utilized. The frame rate drops from 1080p to 4K are consistent across presets, with the Low preset showing the smallest relative drop (39.7%) and the Ultra preset showing the largest (54.3%), which is expected given that higher settings place more load on the GPU's fixed-function hardware.