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# Inside — AMD Ryzen 7 5700G + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D

The benchmark data for Inside with this AMD Ryzen 7 5700G and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D combination reveals a puzzle-platformer that is thoroughly GPU-bound at lower resolutions, yet surprisingly CPU-limited at the highest settings. The measured frame rates across twelve resolution/settings pairs show a game that scales predictably with both resolution and graphical complexity, but with distinct inflection points that merit closer inspection. This 8-core, 16-thread Zen 3 processor paired with the massive Blackwell 2.0 flagship produces results that range from 153 FPS at 4K Ultra to 301 FPS at 1080p Low, indicating that the RTX 5090 D is never fully stretched by this title's relatively modest rendering demands.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate progression from 1080p to 4K tells a clear story about where the bottleneck lies in this configuration. At Low settings, the drop from 301 FPS at 1920x1080 to 231 FPS at 3840x2160 represents a 70 FPS reduction, or roughly 23% lower performance at 4K compared to 1080p. This relatively modest decline suggests that even at 4K Low, the GPU is not being taxed to its limits—the RTX 5090 D's 32 GB of GDDR7 memory and 1.79 TB/s bandwidth are more than sufficient for this game's visual demands.

The Medium settings tier shows a similar pattern, with 278 FPS at 1080p, 249 FPS at 1440p, and 213 FPS at 4K. The step from 1080p to 1440p costs 29 FPS, while the step from 1440p to 4K costs another 36 FPS. This consistent degradation indicates that pixel count is the primary driver of performance loss, but the magnitude of the drop is far smaller than what would be expected from a GPU-limited scenario on a modern flagship. For context, the 4K Medium result of 213 FPS still exceeds what many systems achieve at 1080p on other titles, highlighting how lightweight Inside's rendering pipeline truly is.

High settings demonstrate the same scaling pattern: 231 FPS at 1080p, 207 FPS at 1440p, and 160 FPS at 4K. The 71 FPS spread between 1080p and 4K High mirrors the Low settings delta of 70 FPS, suggesting that resolution scaling is independent of the settings preset—the game's frame rate penalty for moving to 4K is remarkably consistent around 70-71 FPS regardless of quality level.

Ultra settings tell a slightly different story. At 1080p Ultra, the system produces 228 FPS, dropping to 204 FPS at 1440p and 153 FPS at 4K. The 75 FPS spread from 1080p to 4K Ultra is the largest of any preset, and the 4K Ultra result of 153 FPS is the lowest measured value in the entire dataset. This suggests that Ultra settings introduce additional computational load that interacts with resolution more aggressively than lower presets, though even this "worst case" scenario remains highly playable.

The data implies that at 1080p and 1440p, the CPU may be starting to become a limiting factor, particularly at lower settings where the GPU has excess headroom. The Ryzen 7 5700G's 3.80 GHz base clock and 4.60 GHz boost clock, combined with its 16 MB of L3 cache, appear sufficient to keep pace with the RTX 5090 D's output at these resolutions, but the diminishing returns between 1080p Low (301 FPS) and 1080p Medium (278 FPS) suggest a ceiling is being approached.

Settings Recommendations

Examining the measured rows, the Medium preset emerges as the most balanced choice for this hardware combination, offering a compelling blend of visual quality and frame rate headroom. At 1080p Medium, the system achieves 278 FPS average with a minimum of 236 FPS and maximum of 319 FPS—the minimum frame rate is still well above any display refresh rate currently on the market, ensuring zero perceptible stutter. The 1440p Medium result of 249 FPS (min 211, max 286) maintains this smoothness at higher resolution, while 4K Medium's 213 FPS (min 181, max 245) remains comfortably above 144 Hz thresholds.

High settings offer only marginal visual improvements over Medium according to the FPS data, with the 1080p High result of 231 FPS representing a 47 FPS drop from Medium. This 17% performance penalty for stepping up one quality tier raises questions about whether the visual difference justifies the cost. At 4K, the gap narrows slightly—160 FPS at High versus 213 FPS at Medium is a 53 FPS difference, still substantial but proportionally smaller than at 1080p.

Ultra settings deliver the worst value proposition in the dataset. The 1080p Ultra result of 228 FPS is nearly identical to High (231 FPS), yet 4K Ultra drops to 153 FPS—the only measured result below 160 FPS in the entire table. This 75 FPS penalty from 1080p Ultra to 4K Ultra, combined with the negligible difference between Ultra and High at 1080p, suggests that Ultra settings are not optimized for this game's engine or that the visual gains are being achieved through techniques that disproportionately impact frame rate at higher resolutions.

For users with high-refresh-rate displays (240 Hz or above), the Low preset at 1080p provides the only measured configuration that exceeds 300 FPS, hitting 301 FPS average. However, the 23 FPS improvement from Medium to Low (278 to 301 FPS) may not be worth the visual downgrade for a game like Inside, which relies heavily on atmospheric lighting and shadow work to create its signature mood. The 1440p Low result of 269 FPS and 4K Low of 231 FPS both remain excellent, making Low a viable fallback for competitive play or extreme refresh rate displays.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D's specifications paint a picture of overwhelming capability that this game simply cannot fully utilize. With 32 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 512-bit bus delivering 1.79 TB/s of bandwidth, the memory subsystem alone exceeds the requirements of any puzzle-platformer currently available. The GPU's 21,760 shading units, 680 texture mapping units, and 176 render output units provide 104.8 TFLOPS of FP32 compute, yet Inside's measured performance never approaches the limits of this hardware.

The boost clock of 2407 MHz and base clock of 2017 MHz represent the operational envelope for this Blackwell 2.0 chip, and the benchmark results indicate that the GPU is likely running well below its maximum boost potential in this title. The PassMark G3D score of 44,065 and 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 14,326 place this GPU in the 92nd percentile versus all GPUs, yet the game's frame rates suggest the bottleneck lies elsewhere.

The 4K Ultra result of 153 FPS is particularly telling. When compared to the 4K Medium result of 213 FPS, the 60 FPS gap between these presets demonstrates that Ultra settings are imposing a significant computational load that scales with resolution. This could be attributed to advanced lighting techniques, shadow quality, or post-processing effects that disproportionately impact pixel throughput. The RTX 5090 D's 170 ray tracing cores and 680 tensor cores are available for such effects, but the game's 2016 release date means it was not designed to leverage these modern features.

The GPU's 1.79 TB/s memory bandwidth ensures that texture streaming and asset loading never become a limiting factor, even at 4K with the game's ambient occlusion and particle effects at maximum. The 32 GB VRAM capacity is overkill for a game that launched in 2016, but this headroom means that memory allocation is never a concern, allowing the system to maintain consistent frame pacing.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the dataset shows a clear hierarchy across settings. Low produces 301 FPS average, Medium drops to 278 FPS (min 236, max 319), High achieves 231 FPS, and Ultra rounds out at 228 FPS. The minimal difference between High and Ultra (3 FPS) suggests that the Ultra preset's additional effects are not heavily taxing the GPU at this resolution, while the 73 FPS gap between Low and Ultra indicates that the full quality spectrum has meaningful performance implications.

The 2560x1440 results follow the same ordering with slightly compressed values. Low delivers 269 FPS, Medium hits 249 FPS (min 211, max 286), High reaches 207 FPS, and Ultra produces 204 FPS. The 65 FPS spread from Low to Ultra at 1440p is narrower than the 73 FPS spread at 1080p, hinting that resolution scaling is beginning to even out the differences between presets.

At 3840x2160, the spread widens again but with a different character. Low achieves 231 FPS, Medium delivers 213 FPS (min 181, max 245), High reaches 160 FPS, and Ultra bottoms out at 153 FPS. The 78 FPS difference between Low and Ultra at 4K is the largest of any resolution, driven primarily by the dramatic drop from Medium to High (53 FPS) rather than the more modest steps between other tiers.

The minimum frame rates recorded for Medium settings across all resolutions (236 FPS at 1080p, 211 FPS at 1440p, 181 FPS at 4K) show that even the worst-case frame pacing remains excellent. The consistency between these minimums and their corresponding averages (278, 249, and 213 FPS respectively) indicates that the system maintains stable performance without significant frame time spikes.

How This Combo Ranks

This specific combination of AMD Ryzen 7 5700G and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D ranks 418th out of 2,887 tested combos for Inside, placing it in the top 14.5% of all configurations. This ranking is somewhat surprising given the GPU's 92nd percentile standing versus all GPUs and the CPU's 79th percentile versus all CPUs. The data suggests that Inside does not heavily reward the extreme hardware investments represented by this pairing.

The RTX 5090 D's nearest rivals in the GPU benchmark database—the AMD Radeon RX 6650M XT (1.1% lower score), AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT (1.6% higher), and NVIDIA Tesla P100 variants (2.1-2.4% higher)—all demonstrate similar aggregate performance, yet the RTX 5090 D's 32 GB VRAM and 104.8 TFLOPS compute do not translate into proportional FPS gains in this game. The combo's rank of 418 suggests that many more modest GPU pairings achieve comparable or better results in Inside due to the game's CPU-bound nature at high frame rates.

The CPU's nearest rivals—Intel Core i9-9900K (0.2% lower average score), AMD Ryzen AI 7 445 (0.4% higher), Intel Core i5-14400T (0.4% lower), and Intel Core i7-1370P (0.6% higher)—show that the Ryzen 7 5700G is competitively positioned in synthetic benchmarks, but these differences are negligible in real-world gaming scenarios. The 418th rank out of 2,887 combos indicates that this pairing is solidly above average but not exceptional for Inside, likely because the game's modest requirements allow many lower-tier GPUs to hit similar frame rates when paired with capable CPUs.

FAQ

Q: What is the highest average FPS achieved with this hardware combination?

A: The highest measured average FPS is 301, achieved at 1920x1080 resolution with Low settings. This is the only configuration in the dataset that exceeds 300 FPS.

Q: How does the 4K Ultra performance compare to 1080p Low?

A: The 4K Ultra result of 153 FPS is roughly half of the 1080p Low result of 301 FPS, representing a 148 FPS difference. This is the largest performance gap between any two measured configurations in the dataset.

Q: At which resolution does the RTX 5090 D's performance advantage become most apparent?

A: The data shows the smallest FPS differences between presets at 1440p, where the spread from Low (269 FPS) to Ultra (204 FPS) is only 65 FPS. This suggests 1440p is the resolution where this GPU maintains the most consistent performance across settings.

Q: What is the minimum frame rate recorded across all configurations?

A: The lowest minimum FPS recorded is 181, which occurs at 3840x2160 with Medium settings. This is still well above standard 144 Hz refresh rates, indicating smooth performance even in the most demanding measured scenario.

*Q: How does the combo's rank in Inside compare to the individual components' percentiles?*

A: The combo ranks 418th out of 2,887 tested configurations (top 14.5%), while the RTX 5090 D sits in the 92nd percentile versus all GPUs and the Ryzen 7 5700G in the 79th percentile versus all CPUs. The lower combo rank relative to component percentiles suggests the game does not fully utilize the hardware's capabilities.

Q: Which settings preset at 1440p offers the highest minimum frame rate?

A: At 2560x1440, the Medium settings preset provides a minimum FPS of 211, which is the highest minimum among the 1440p configurations. The Low and High presets do not have recorded minimum FPS values in the dataset.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700G's specifications—8 cores, 16 threads, 3.80 GHz base clock, 4.60 GHz boost clock—provide the computational foundation for this system's Inside performance. The CPU's Zen 3 architecture, manufactured on a 7 nm process by TSMC with 10,700 million transistors, delivers solid single-thread and multi-thread capabilities that the game's engine can leverage. The 16 MB of L3 cache, while modest by modern standards, is sufficient for the game's relatively small asset footprints.

Synthetic benchmarks for the 5700G show a balanced profile: Cinebench R23 multi-core scores 12,830.5 and single-core 1,494, while Geekbench multi-core reaches 9,950 and single-core 1,894. The CPU's 79th percentile standing versus all CPUs reflects its position as a capable mid-range processor, and its nearest rivals—the Intel Core i9-9900K, AMD Ryzen AI 7 445, Intel Core i5-14400T, and Intel Core i7-1370P—all cluster within 0.6% of its average benchmark score of 27,051.

The measured FPS data suggests that the CPU becomes a limiting factor at lower resolutions and settings. The 1080p Low result of 301 FPS, while impressive, may represent the practical ceiling for this processor in Inside, as the 23 FPS improvement from Medium (278 FPS) to Low (301 FPS) is proportionally smaller than the 47 FPS drop from Medium to High (231 FPS). This pattern indicates that the GPU has headroom at low settings, but the CPU cannot feed it frames fast enough to push beyond approximately 300 FPS.

The 5700G's memory bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s over a dual-channel DDR4 interface, combined with its PCIe Gen 3 x16 connection to the GPU, could theoretically limit data transfer rates in bandwidth-intensive scenarios. However, the game's modest texture and geometry requirements mean these theoretical constraints do not manifest in the measured results. The CPU's 65 W TDP and active production status suggest it remains a relevant component for budget-conscious builders, even when paired with a flagship GPU like the RTX 5090 D.

The integrated Radeon Vega 8 graphics are irrelevant for this configuration since the discrete RTX 5090 D handles all rendering, but their presence adds flexibility for troubleshooting or secondary display output. The CPU's unlocked multiplier allows overclocking, which could potentially push frame rates higher in CPU-bound scenarios, though the measured data already demonstrates excellent performance across all tested configurations.