Inside

The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 achieves a combo rank of 193 out of 1,671 tested combinations in Inside, placing it in the top 11.5% of all systems benchmarked for this title. This ranking reflects a configuration where the 8-core CPU and the flagship 40-series GPU combine to deliver exceptional frame rates, though the data reveals that the RTX 4090 is frequently operating well beyond the demands of this 2016 puzzle platformer.

How This Combo Ranks

Within the database of 1,671 tested combos for Inside, the 5800X + RTX 4090 pairing sits at position 193. This top-tier placement is consistent with the individual component standings: the Ryzen 7 5800X holds an 84th percentile ranking among all CPUs, while the RTX 4090 sits in the 91st percentile among all GPUs. The combination of a high-percentile CPU and an even higher-percentile GPU produces a system that is over-provisioned for the game’s modest graphical demands, yet the ranking shows it is not the absolute fastest configuration available.

The CPU’s nearest rivals in aggregate benchmark scores are extremely tight. The Ryzen 7 5800X averages 27,606 points, which is only 0.3% ahead of the AMD Ryzen 7 5800 (27,535) and 0.4% behind the AMD Ryzen 5 8500GE (27,708). The Intel Core i7-13700H (27,716) and Intel Core i5-12600KF (27,827) are also within 0.8% of the 5800X’s average score. These sub-1% differences indicate that the CPU is not the differentiating factor in this combo’s ranking; the GPU’s overwhelming performance headroom is what pushes this system into the top 200.

At 4K Ultra settings, the combo produces 139 FPS, which places it well above the refresh rates of most displays. The gap between the 193rd rank and the top spot likely comes down to systems with even newer CPUs or multiple GPUs, but for a single-GPU setup, this configuration delivers near-maximal performance in Inside.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X is a Zen 3 (Vermeer) processor built on TSMC’s 7 nm process, featuring 8 cores and 16 threads. Its base clock is 3.80 GHz with a boost clock of 4.70 GHz, and it carries 32 MB of L3 cache. The CPU communicates with DDR4 memory over a dual-channel bus at 51.2 GB/s, and it supports PCIe Gen 4 with 20 CPU lanes. These specifications produce strong synthetic benchmarks: a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 23,571, a single-core score of 3,327, and a Geekbench multi-core score of 10,220 with a single-core score of 2,194.

For Inside, a puzzle platformer that is not heavily threaded, the 5800X’s single-core performance is the more relevant metric. The 3DMark single-thread score of 943 and the extremely high PassMark single-thread score of 3,445 indicate that the CPU can handle the game’s physics and logic without bottlenecking. The multi-threaded capabilities, evidenced by a PassMark multi-thread score of 27,732 and a 3DMark 16-thread score of 7,586, are largely unused in this title.

The data confirms this CPU is not a limiting factor at any resolution. At 1080p Low, the combo hits 317.3 FPS, which is the highest measured value across the entire test suite. This suggests the CPU can feed the GPU with enough data to reach frame rates that far exceed typical display capabilities. The CPU’s 84th percentile ranking among all processors, combined with its tight rival margins (all within 0.8% in average score), shows that the 5800X is a mature, well-balanced part that does not hold back the RTX 4090 in this game.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 is based on the AD102 chip using Ada Lovelace architecture on a 5 nm TSMC process. It packs 16,384 shading units, 512 texture mapping units, and 176 ROPs, along with 128 ray tracing cores and 512 tensor cores. The GPU operates at a base clock of 2235 MHz with a boost clock of 2520 MHz, and it is paired with 24 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 384-bit bus, delivering 1.01 TB/s of bandwidth. The memory runs at 1313 MHz with 21 Gbps effective speed.

These specifications yield a PassMark G3D score of 38,194 and a 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 9,223. The GPU’s average benchmark score of 66,473 places it in the 91st percentile of all GPUs. Its nearest rivals are professional workstation cards: the NVIDIA Tesla T4 is 0.4% ahead, while the Tesla P40 is 0.5% behind, and the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 and NVIDIA Quadro P6000 trail by 0.9% and 1.3%, respectively. This comparison underscores that the RTX 4090 is a consumer flagship operating in the same performance envelope as enterprise compute cards.

In Inside, the RTX 4090’s raw power is evident in the frame rates. At 4K High, the combo produces 144.9 FPS, which is already above the 144 Hz threshold for many gaming monitors. The GPU’s 24 GB VRAM buffer is vastly more than the game requires, and the 82.58 TFLOPS of FP32 compute power means the rendering pipeline is never starved. The GPU’s role here is to provide massive headroom, ensuring that even at 4K Ultra, the frame rate remains at 139 FPS, a figure that would be considered high for most modern titles but is simply a baseline for this hardware in a lighter game.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS values show a clear pattern across resolutions and settings. At 1080p, the combo ranges from 239.6 FPS at Ultra to 317.3 FPS at Low. The Medium setting yields 292.9 FPS, and High produces 242.4 FPS. The spread between Low and Ultra at 1080p is 77.7 FPS, indicating that the GPU has enough headroom to render the game at very high speeds regardless of quality preset.

Moving to 1440p, the frame rates remain high but begin to compress. Low settings produce 283.5 FPS, Medium drops to 258.9 FPS, High yields 216.3 FPS, and Ultra comes in at 215.8 FPS. The difference between Low and Ultra shrinks to 67.7 FPS, suggesting that the GPU is starting to feel the resolution increase, but the CPU is still keeping pace.

At 4K, the impact of resolution becomes more pronounced. Low settings deliver 241.4 FPS, Medium drops to 223.3 FPS, High falls to 144.9 FPS, and Ultra bottoms out at 139 FPS. The gap between Low and Ultra at 4K is 102.4 FPS, which is larger than the gaps at lower resolutions. This indicates that the GPU is becoming the limiting factor at 4K Ultra, though even the lowest 4K figure of 139 FPS is still highly playable.

The settings progression within each resolution follows a consistent pattern: Low > Medium > High > Ultra, with the exception of High and Ultra being very close at 1440p (216.3 vs 215.8 FPS). This near-identical performance at 1440p suggests that the difference between High and Ultra presets has minimal impact on GPU load at this resolution, likely because the game’s visual effects are not demanding enough to stress the RTX 4090.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate scaling from 1080p to 4K reveals where the bottleneck shifts. At Low settings, the FPS drops from 317.3 at 1080p to 283.5 at 1440p, and then to 241.4 at 4K. This represents a 23.9% reduction from 1080p to 4K, which is modest and indicates that the CPU is the primary limiter at lower resolutions. At Low settings, the GPU is so fast that it is waiting on the CPU to deliver draw calls, so the resolution increase does not dramatically hurt performance.

At Ultra settings, the scaling is steeper. The FPS goes from 239.6 at 1080p to 215.8 at 1440p, and then to 139 at 4K. This is a 42.0% drop from 1080p to 4K, showing that the GPU is now the limiting component. The 4K Ultra workload requires the RTX 4090 to work harder, and the frame rate falls accordingly. The gap between Low and Ultra at 4K (102.4 FPS) is nearly double the gap at 1080p (77.7 FPS), confirming that resolution scaling amplifies the GPU’s role.

The data shows that this combo is CPU-bound at 1080p, as evidenced by the relatively small FPS differences between Low and Ultra at that resolution. As resolution increases, the GPU becomes the bottleneck, and the FPS differences between settings grow. At 4K Ultra, the system produces 139 FPS, which is still excellent for any game, but it is 44.2% lower than the 1080p Low result of 317.3 FPS. This scaling behavior is typical for a high-end GPU paired with a mid-range CPU: the CPU saturates at lower resolutions, while the GPU’s limits are exposed at higher resolutions.