Inside

The AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 combination handles Inside with a wide performance envelope, ranging from a smooth 60.9 FPS at 4K High to a blistering 257.8 FPS at 1080p Low. This pairing demonstrates that the game’s demands scale predictably, but the bottlenecks shift significantly depending on your target resolution and settings.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS drop from 1080p to 4K reveals a clear GPU-bound scenario at higher resolutions, while the CPU holds its ground. At Ultra settings, the average frame rate falls from 123 FPS at 1080p to 85.6 FPS at 1440p, a reduction of roughly 30%. Pushing further to 4K Ultra yields 55.6 FPS, which is a 55% drop from the 1080p result. This steep decline indicates that the RTX 2060’s rendering pipeline becomes the limiting factor as pixel count increases.

At Low settings, the scaling is even more dramatic. The 257.8 FPS average at 1080p drops to 181.9 FPS at 1440p (a 29% reduction) and then to 114.3 FPS at 4K (a 56% drop from 1080p). This pattern suggests that even with minimal graphical load, the GPU’s memory bandwidth and shading throughput cap performance at higher resolutions. The Ryzen 7 5800XT, with its 8 cores and 16 threads, does not appear to hold back frame rates at any resolution—the 1080p Low result of 257.8 FPS shows the CPU can feed frames well past typical display refresh rates.

The gap between Low and Ultra settings widens with resolution. At 1080p, Ultra is 52% slower than Low (123 vs 257.8 FPS). At 4K, Ultra is 51% slower than Low (55.6 vs 114.3 FPS). This consistency implies that the game’s settings scale uniformly, with no sudden bottleneck switching between CPU and GPU across the resolution range.

How This Combo Ranks

This specific combination achieves a rank of 1372 out of 1671 tested combos for Inside. That places it in the lower 18% of all pairings tested, which is a modest result for a CPU that sits in the 86th percentile overall and a GPU in the 58th percentile. The ranking suggests that while the individual components are capable, the pairing is not optimized for this particular puzzle platformer, likely due to the game’s relatively light CPU requirements compared to the GPU’s mid-range position.

The combo’s rank is more indicative of the GPU’s performance class than the CPU’s strength. The Ryzen 7 5800XT’s nearest rivals include the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5755GE (0.1% slower), AMD Ryzen 7 7840H (0.3% faster), and AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 (0.3% slower). These negligible deltas show that the CPU is competitive with modern chips, but the RTX 2060’s position relative to its rivals—the AMD Radeon RX 7600S (0.5% slower) and AMD Radeon Pro 5700 (1.7% faster)—keeps the overall combo from climbing higher.

In practical terms, this rank means the combo will handle Inside at playable frame rates for most settings, but it won’t be a leaderboard-topper. For a game with simple 2D visuals and limited draw distances, the RTX 2060’s raw compute is sufficient, yet the ranking indicates that many other tested pairs deliver higher averages.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 is built on the 12 nm TU106 chip with 1920 shading units, 120 texture mapping units, and 48 ROPs. Its 6 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus provides 336.0 GB/s of bandwidth, which is a critical factor for Inside’s higher resolution performance. The GPU’s boost clock of 1680 MHz (base 1365 MHz) allows it to reach 6.451 TFLOPS of FP32 performance, a figure that proves adequate for this game’s stylized art style.

At 4K Ultra, the RTX 2060 manages 55.6 FPS, which is above the 60 FPS threshold only if you drop to High settings (60.9 FPS). The memory bandwidth appears to be the constraining factor at 4K, as the 6 GB capacity is not exceeded by this game, but the 192-bit bus limits texture fetch rates. The GPU’s 30 RT cores and 240 tensor cores are present but largely unused in Inside, which lacks ray tracing or DLSS support, meaning the raw rasterization performance is what matters.

The GPU’s PassMark G3D score of 14111 and average benchmark score of 16074 place it just 0.5% ahead of the AMD Radeon RX 7600S, confirming its mid-range status. For Inside, the RTX 2060 delivers 257.8 FPS at 1080p Low, indicating that it can saturate high refresh rate monitors at lower settings, but the 4K Ultra result of 55.6 FPS shows its limits when pushing pixel counts.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the RTX 2060 delivers 257.8 FPS on Low, 202.9 FPS on Medium, 127.2 FPS on High, and 123 FPS on Ultra. The small gap between High and Ultra (just 4.2 FPS) suggests that Ultra settings add minimal overhead beyond High, making High the more efficient choice for competitive play. The jump from Medium to High is more significant, dropping 75.7 FPS, which indicates a major visual fidelity step.

Moving to 2560x1440, the averages are 181.9 FPS on Low, 145.6 FPS on Medium, 92.7 FPS on High, and 85.6 FPS on Ultra. The 1440p results show a similar pattern to 1080p, with High and Ultra closely matched (7.1 FPS apart). The 4K (3840x2160) results are 114.3 FPS on Low, 91.4 FPS on Medium, 60.9 FPS on High, and 55.6 FPS on Ultra. At 4K, the difference between High and Ultra narrows to just 5.3 FPS, reinforcing that Ultra settings are not worth the performance cost.

Across all resolutions, the Low settings provide more than double the frame rate of Ultra at 1080p (257.8 vs 123 FPS) and 4K (114.3 vs 55.6 FPS). The Medium setting offers a balanced middle ground, with 202.9 FPS at 1080p and 91.4 FPS at 4K.

FAQ

*Q: Can this combo run Inside at 60 FPS on a 4K monitor?*

A: Yes, at High settings the average is 60.9 FPS, but Ultra drops to 55.6 FPS. You’ll need to use High or lower to maintain a consistent 60 FPS at 4K.

Q: What is the best setting for high refresh rate 1080p gaming?

A: Low settings yield 257.8 FPS, which is ideal for a 240Hz monitor. Medium produces 202.9 FPS, still sufficient for 144Hz displays, while High and Ultra both hover around 123-127 FPS.

Q: How does the RTX 2060 compare to its closest rival in this game?

A: The RTX 2060 averages 16074 in benchmarks, which is 0.5% ahead of the AMD Radeon RX 7600S and 1.8% ahead of the AMD Radeon Pro W5500. In Inside, this translates to roughly the same frame rates at each resolution.

Q: Is the CPU or GPU the bottleneck at 1440p?

A: The data shows a 30% FPS drop from 1080p to 1440p at Ultra settings, indicating the GPU is the limiting component. The Ryzen 7 5800XT’s 8 cores and 16 threads provide ample headroom, as evidenced by the 257.8 FPS at 1080p Low.

Q: What is the performance difference between High and Ultra settings?

A: At 1080p, Ultra is just 3.3% slower than High (123 vs 127.2 FPS). At 4K, the difference is 8.7% (55.6 vs 60.9 FPS). Ultra offers marginal visual improvements for a small performance hit.

Q: Does the 6 GB VRAM limit performance at 4K?

A: The FPS drops from 114.3 (Low) to 55.6 (Ultra) at 4K suggest the GPU’s compute and bandwidth are the constraints, not VRAM capacity. The 336.0 GB/s bandwidth is likely the limiting factor, as Inside’s textures are modest.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT provides 8 cores and 16 threads based on the Zen 3 architecture, with a base clock of 3.80 GHz and a boost clock of 4.80 GHz. Its 32 MB of L3 cache and 51.2 GB/s memory bandwidth are more than sufficient for Inside, which is a lightweight puzzle platformer that rarely stresses multi-threaded workloads. The CPU’s Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 23794 and single-core score of 3359 place it in the 86th percentile of all CPUs, confirming its strength.

In this game, the CPU’s role is to feed the GPU without becoming a bottleneck. The 1080p Low result of 257.8 FPS demonstrates that the 5800XT can handle high frame rates, likely because the game’s physics and logic are simple. The 3DMark single-thread score of 959 indicates strong per-core performance, which matters for games that rely on a few threads. The 16 threads provide headroom for background tasks, but Inside likely uses only a fraction of them.

The CPU’s nearest rival, the AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS, is only 0.3% faster in average benchmarks, showing that the 5800XT is competitive with newer mobile chips. However, the combo’s rank of 1372 out of 1671 suggests that the CPU’s performance is wasted in this pairing, as the RTX 2060 is the limiting factor at most settings. For Inside, the 5800XT’s 105W TDP and AM4 socket are irrelevant to gameplay, but its 4.80 GHz boost clock ensures that even at 1080p Ultra, the CPU never holds back the 123 FPS average.