Inside

Resolution Scaling — how FPS drops from 1080p to 4K and what it says about the limiting component

The measured frame rates for Inside reveal a clear pattern of GPU-bound scaling as resolution increases. At 1920x1080 with Ultra settings, the system delivers 227.2 FPS average. Moving to 2560x1440 Ultra drops this to 205 FPS, a reduction of roughly 10%. At 3840x2160 Ultra, the average falls to 133.3 FPS, which is 35% below the 1080p result. This scaling curve is characteristic of a title where the GeForce RTX 5080 begins to hit its fill-rate and memory-bandwidth limits at higher pixel counts, rather than any CPU bottleneck emerging.

The Low settings presets tell the same story but with a steeper relative drop. At 1080p Low, the system reaches 299.1 FPS. At 1440p Low, it achieves 269.9 FPS, and at 4K Low, 230 FPS. The 4K Low figure is 23% below the 1080p Low result. Notably, the gap between Low and Ultra at each resolution shrinks as pixel count rises: at 1080p the spread is 71.9 FPS (299.1 vs 227.2), while at 4K it narrows to 96.7 FPS (230 vs 133.3). This indicates that at lower resolutions, settings changes have a larger proportional impact, while at 4K, the raw pixel throughput dominates.

The Medium preset shows intermediate behavior. At 1080p Medium, the average is 275.8 FPS; at 1440p Medium, 248.4 FPS; and at 4K Medium, 215.4 FPS. The 4K Medium figure is 22% lower than its 1080p counterpart, which is a smaller relative drop than the Ultra preset's 41% decline from 227.2 to 133.3. This suggests that the Ultra preset likely enables effects that are disproportionately expensive at 4K, such as higher-quality shadows or post-processing that stresses the GPU's compute units.

The data strongly indicates that the limiting component shifts entirely to the GPU at 4K. At 1080p, the Ryzen 7 5700G's eight Zen 3 cores are sufficient to push frame rates past 200 FPS even at Ultra, but the RTX 5080's 960.0 GB/s memory bandwidth and 56.28 TFLOPS of FP32 throughput become the decisive factor as resolution climbs. The fact that 4K High (138.4 FPS) lands close to 4K Ultra (133.3 FPS) while 4K Medium achieves 215.4 FPS suggests a specific settings threshold within the High-to-Ultra range that triggers a significant performance penalty — likely a feature that the GPU cannot accelerate efficiently at 4K.

CPU Role — cores, clocks, and how they relate to this game's results

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700G brings 8 cores and 16 threads, running at a base clock of 3.80 GHz and a boost clock of 4.60 GHz. For a puzzle platformer like Inside, the CPU's single-thread performance is more relevant than its multi-core capacity. The processor scores 2930 in Cinebench R23 single-core and 20755 in multi-core, placing it in the 83rd percentile among all CPUs. These scores indicate that the 5700G is more than capable of feeding the RTX 5080 at 1080p, where the system achieves 299.1 FPS on Low settings.

The Zen 3 architecture, built on TSMC's 7 nm process, provides a strong foundation for game logic and physics. The 16 MB of L3 cache and dual-channel DDR4 memory support (51.2 GB/s bandwidth) are adequate for a title of this scope. The benchmark data shows that at 1080p, frame rates scale almost linearly with settings changes — from 299.1 FPS at Low to 275.8 at Medium to 230.1 at High to 227.2 at Ultra. This pattern would not be possible if the CPU were the limiting factor; the consistent 200+ FPS at all 1080p presets demonstrates that the 5700G has ample headroom.

At 1440p, the CPU continues to perform without issue. The High preset delivers 206.2 FPS, and Ultra achieves 205 FPS. The near-identical results between High and Ultra at 1440p (206.2 vs 205) mirror the behavior at 4K (138.4 vs 133.3), suggesting that the GPU's workload at these resolutions begins to dominate. The Ryzen 7 5700G's single-thread score of 2930 in Cinebench R23 translates to solid frame pacing in a game that likely relies on a single main thread for player character updates and collision detection.

The 3DMark results further contextualize the CPU's role. The 16-thread score of 6629 and single-thread score of 899 indicate that the processor scales well across its 16 threads, but Inside's engine likely does not utilize all of them. The multi-thread benchmark of 24419 in PassMark confirms that the 5700G can handle heavy parallel workloads, yet the game's frame rates at 1080p Low (299.1) versus 1080p Ultra (227.2) show a 24% drop that cannot be attributed to CPU limitations — the processor's performance is essentially constant across these settings.

FAQ

Q: What is the maximum average FPS this system can achieve in Inside?

A: The highest recorded average is 299.1 FPS at 1920x1080 with Low settings. The lowest is 133.3 FPS at 3840x2160 with Ultra settings.

Q: How does the system perform at 4K Ultra compared to 1080p Ultra?

A: At 4K Ultra, the average is 133.3 FPS, which is 41% lower than the 227.2 FPS achieved at 1080p Ultra. This large drop indicates the GPU becomes the primary bottleneck at 4K.

Q: Is the Ryzen 7 5700G sufficient for this game at high frame rates?

A: Yes. At 1080p, all settings presets deliver above 227 FPS average, indicating the CPU is not limiting performance. The processor's 8 cores and 16 threads with a 4.60 GHz boost clock provide ample headroom for this puzzle platformer.

Q: What settings preset offers the largest performance jump at 4K?

A: Moving from High (138.4 FPS) to Medium (215.4 FPS) at 3840x2160 provides a 77 FPS improvement, which is a 56% increase. The jump from Ultra to High is much smaller, at only 5.1 FPS.

Q: How does the RTX 5080 compare to its nearest rival in aggregate benchmarks?

A: The RTX 5080 has an average benchmark score of 59188, which is 1.6% higher than the Intel Arc A570M (58239) and 2.5% higher than the Intel Arc A580 (57756). It trails the Intel Arc Pro A60 by 1.9%.

Q: What does the 4K Medium result (215.4 FPS) suggest about the game's GPU demands?

A: The 4K Medium preset achieves 215.4 FPS, which is 62% higher than 4K Ultra. This large gap suggests that Ultra settings enable effects that heavily tax the GPU, while Medium remains well within the RTX 5080's capabilities.

Measured FPS Breakdown — resolution by resolution, settings by settings, exact numbers

At 1920x1080, the system delivers its highest frame rates across all presets. Low settings produce an average of 299.1 FPS, Medium achieves 275.8 FPS, High reaches 230.1 FPS, and Ultra settles at 227.2 FPS. The difference between High and Ultra is minimal at only 2.9 FPS, while the gap from Low to Medium is 23.3 FPS. This resolution clearly demonstrates the CPU's ability to maintain high frame rates, as even the most demanding preset stays above 227 FPS.

Moving to 2560x1440, the frame rates drop but remain high. Low settings average 269.9 FPS, Medium 248.4 FPS, High 206.2 FPS, and Ultra 205 FPS. The High and Ultra presets are nearly identical, with only 1.2 FPS separating them. The drop from 1080p to 1440p is most pronounced at High settings, where the average falls from 230.1 to 206.2 FPS, an 11.6% reduction. At Low settings, the reduction is 29.2 FPS (from 299.1 to 269.9), which is a 10.8% decline.

At 3840x2160, the GPU's workload becomes the dominant factor. Low settings still achieve 230 FPS average, which is higher than the 1080p Ultra result of 227.2 FPS. Medium settings deliver 215.4 FPS, High drops to 138.4 FPS, and Ultra bottoms out at 133.3 FPS. The dramatic fall from Medium to High — a 77 FPS drop — indicates a significant settings-dependent workload increase. The difference between High and Ultra at 4K is only 5.1 FPS, suggesting that the Ultra preset adds marginal visual fidelity at a steep performance cost.

The overall pattern across resolutions shows that the RTX 5080 maintains playable frame rates even at 4K Ultra (133.3 FPS), but the step from 1080p to 4K at Ultra settings costs 93.9 FPS. The combination ranks 287th out of 1671 tested combinations for this game, placing it in the top 17% of all system configurations measured.

GPU Role — VRAM, clocks, and how they relate to this game's results

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 is built on the Blackwell 2.0 architecture with the GB203 chip, manufactured on TSMC's 5 nm process. It features 16 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 256-bit bus, delivering 960.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The GPU's base clock is 2295 MHz with a boost clock of 2617 MHz, and memory runs at 1875 MHz (30 Gbps effective). These specifications drive the measured frame rates in Inside, particularly at higher resolutions where memory bandwidth becomes critical.

The GPU's 10752 shading units, 336 TMUs, and 112 ROPs contribute to its 56.28 TFLOPS of FP32 compute and 879.3 GTexel/s texture rate. The 16 GB VRAM capacity is far more than Inside requires, but the high bandwidth ensures that texture streaming and frame buffering at 4K do not become bottlenecks. The 4K Low result of 230 FPS demonstrates that even at minimal settings, the GPU's raw throughput is sufficient to maintain high frame rates, while the 4K Ultra result of 133.3 FPS shows the cost of enabling all visual features.

The RTX 5080's PassMark G3D score of 36565 and 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 8637 place it in the 89th percentile among all GPUs. Its average benchmark score of 59188 is 1.6% above the Intel Arc A570M and 2.5% above the Intel Arc A580, but 1.9% below the Intel Arc Pro A60. These comparisons indicate that the RTX 5080 sits in a competitive mid-to-high tier, though Inside's modest graphics demands mean the GPU is rarely stressed to its limits except at 4K Ultra.

The 4K data reveals a clear threshold between Medium and High settings. At Medium, the GPU delivers 215.4 FPS; at High, it drops to 138.4 FPS. This 36% reduction suggests that High and Ultra presets enable effects that heavily utilize the GPU's compute units and memory bandwidth, while Medium keeps the workload within a more efficient range. The RTX 5080's 960.0 GB/s bandwidth is likely the limiting factor at 4K Ultra, as the 133.3 FPS result indicates the GPU is nearing its effective throughput ceiling for this title.

The combination of the Ryzen 7 5700G and RTX 5080 shows that for Inside, the GPU is the primary performance determinant at resolutions above 1080p. The CPU's 8 cores and 16 threads are more than sufficient, and the GPU's 16 GB GDDR7 memory and high clock speeds ensure that even 4K Ultra remains comfortably above 120 FPS. The rank of 287 out of 1671 combinations confirms that this pairing delivers strong performance in this specific game, with the GPU's capabilities being the decisive factor in the measured results.