Inside

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700X and AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT combination delivers a remarkably consistent experience in Inside, a puzzle platformer from 2016. The pairing produces triple-digit frame rates at nearly every tested configuration, with the only sub-100 fps result occurring at 4K Ultra settings. This combo ranks 1207th out of 1671 tested combinations, placing it in the 72nd percentile of all systems in the database for this specific title. The data indicates a system that is heavily GPU-limited at higher resolutions, while the CPU headroom becomes apparent only at lower settings where frame rates exceed 200 fps.

FAQ

Q: What is the average frame rate at 1080p with High settings?

A: The system achieves an average of 139.9 fps at 1920x1080 with High settings, which is more than double the 60.3 fps recorded at 4K Ultra.

Q: How does the combo perform at 4K resolution?

A: At 3840x2160, the average frame rate ranges from 60.3 fps at Ultra settings to 127.2 fps at Low settings. The High preset yields 61.7 fps, while Medium produces 98.8 fps.

Q: Does the CPU bottleneck the GPU in this game?

A: No. The Ryzen 7 5700X demonstrates significant headroom, as evidenced by the jump from 139.9 fps at 1080p High to 279.3 fps at 1080p Low. The GPU becomes the limiting factor at higher resolutions and quality settings.

Q: What is the difference between the 1080p and 1440p results at Ultra settings?

A: The system delivers 131.2 fps at 1080p Ultra and 97 fps at 1440p Ultra, representing a 26% reduction in average frame rate when moving up one resolution step.

Q: How does the RX 6600 XT compare to its nearest rival, the RTX 3070?

A: The RX 6600 XT has an average benchmark score of 27985, which is 0.9% lower than the RTX 3070's 28238. However, the RX 6600 XT outperforms the GTX 980 Ti by 0.1%.

Q: Is the Ryzen 7 5700X a high-performing CPU in general benchmarks?

A: Yes. It scores 22620 in Cinebench R23 multi-core and 3193 in single-core, placing it in the 83rd percentile of all CPUs with an average benchmark score of 26214.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT is built on the RDNA 2.0 architecture with a Navi 23 chip manufactured on a 7 nm process. The GPU contains 2048 shading units, 128 texture mapping units, and 64 raster operation pipelines, along with 32 ray tracing cores. Its memory subsystem consists of 8 GB of GDDR6 on a 128-bit bus, providing 256.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The card operates at a base clock of 1968 MHz, a game clock of 2359 MHz, and a boost clock of 2589 MHz, with memory running at 2000 MHz effective 16 Gbps.

In Inside, the GPU's role becomes increasingly dominant as resolution increases. At 1080p Ultra, the system produces 131.2 fps, but at 4K Ultra, the frame rate drops to 60.3 fps, a 54% decrease. This scaling pattern indicates that the RX 6600 XT is the primary performance limiter at 4K, especially with higher quality settings. The GPU's 10.60 TFLOPS of FP32 compute and 165.7 GPixel/s pixel rate are sufficient for the game's 2D side-scrolling rendering, but the 128-bit memory bus constrains performance at 4K Ultra where bandwidth demands are highest.

The graphics card achieves a passmark G3D score of 16461 and a passmark GPU compute score of 7520, placing it in the 71st percentile of all GPUs. Its average benchmark score of 27985 puts it within 0.9% of the RTX 3070's score, though the RX 6600 XT's performance in this game at 4K Ultra (60.3 fps) suggests that its memory bandwidth and ROP count are adequate for the title's relatively modest visual complexity.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate progression from 1080p to 4K reveals a predictable GPU-bound scaling pattern. At High settings, the system delivers 139.9 fps at 1080p, 104.1 fps at 1440p, and 61.7 fps at 4K. This represents a 25.6% drop from 1080p to 1440p, followed by a 40.7% drop from 1440p to 4K. The 4K result at High settings falls just above the 60 fps threshold, indicating that the RX 6600 XT is approaching its limit at this resolution with quality settings enabled.

The scaling at Ultra settings is even more pronounced: 131.2 fps at 1080p, 97 fps at 1440p, and 60.3 fps at 4K. The percentage drops are 26.1% and 37.8% respectively, with the 4K Ultra result barely maintaining playability. Interestingly, the Low settings results show a different pattern: 279.3 fps at 1080p, 200.6 fps at 1440p, and 127.2 fps at 4K. The 4K Low result is still higher than the 1080p Ultra result, demonstrating that the GPU's raw compute power is substantial, but its memory bandwidth becomes the limiting factor at high resolutions with complex shading.

The difference between High and Ultra settings at each resolution is relatively small: 8.7 fps at 1080p, 7.1 fps at 1440p, and 1.4 fps at 4K. This suggests that the Ultra preset in Inside does not impose a significantly heavier load than High, and the GPU is able to maintain similar performance levels across both presets. The medium settings provide intermediate results, with 222.6 fps at 1080p, 163.1 fps at 1440p, and 98.8 fps at 4K, showing consistent scaling across all three resolutions.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the Ryzen 7 5700X and RX 6600 XT ranks 1207th out of 1671 tested combos in Inside, placing it in the 72nd percentile of all systems tested. This ranking reflects the GPU's mid-range positioning rather than any CPU limitation, as the processor demonstrates substantial headroom in this title. The data indicates that the combo's performance in this game is primarily determined by the RX 6600 XT, which ranks in the 71st percentile among all GPUs.

Comparatively, the CPU's percentile ranking of 83rd among all processors is significantly higher than the GPU's 71st percentile, suggesting that the system is balanced toward CPU capability. This imbalance is not detrimental in Inside, as the game's puzzle platformer genre does not demand extreme multi-threaded performance. The combo's ranking of 1207th places it in the upper-middle range of tested systems, which aligns with the GPU's position relative to its rivals. The RX 6600 XT's nearest rival, the RTX 3070, has a 0.9% higher average benchmark score, yet the performance difference in this game would be minimal given the frame rates achieved.

The CPU's nearest rivals include the Intel Core i9-11900KF with a 0.1% higher average score, and the AMD Ryzen 5 7600X with a 0.2% lower score. These margins are negligible for gaming performance, and in Inside, the CPU's 8 cores and 16 threads at a 4.60 GHz boost clock provide more than enough processing power to avoid becoming a bottleneck at any resolution.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 5700X is a Zen 3 architecture processor codenamed Vermeer, manufactured on a 7 nm process at TSMC. It features 8 cores and 16 threads with a base clock of 3.40 GHz and a boost clock of 4.60 GHz. The processor includes 64 KB of L1 cache per core, 512 KB of L2 cache per core, and 32 MB of shared L3 cache, along with support for DDR4 memory in a dual-channel configuration providing 51.2 GB/s of bandwidth.

In Inside, the CPU's role is minimal due to the game's moderate processing requirements. The evidence for this comes from the measured frame rates at 1080p Low: 279.3 fps. This exceptionally high frame rate indicates that the CPU can feed the GPU with data far faster than the graphics card can render frames at lower resolutions. The 3dmark benchmarks support this, showing a single-thread score of 921 and a 16-thread score of 6858, with the max-thread score of 6850 being nearly identical.

The CPU's Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 22620 and single-core score of 3193 place it in the 83rd percentile of all CPUs. Its average benchmark score of 26214 is within 0.2% of the AMD Ryzen 5 7600X and the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U, demonstrating that the 5700X remains competitive with newer parts. The processor's 65 W TDP and unlocked multiplier make it an efficient choice for systems where power consumption is a consideration, though this is not reflected in the gaming performance metrics.

The CPU's performance in Inside is further evidenced by the negligible difference between 1080p High (139.9 fps) and 1080p Ultra (131.2 fps) compared to the significant drop to 4K Ultra (60.3 fps). This pattern confirms that the Ryzen 7 5700X is not the limiting component at any tested configuration, and the system's frame rates are governed entirely by the RX 6600 XT's capabilities. The processor's 16 threads and 32 MB of L3 cache provide ample resources for the game's logic and physics, and its single-thread performance of 3193 in Cinebench R23 ensures that even the most demanding frame-time spikes are handled without issue.