Inside

The AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D paired with the Intel Arc B570 delivers a performance profile in Inside that is heavily dictated by resolution and graphics preset, with the measured data showing a clear sweet spot for high-refresh-rate play at 1080p and a more demanding situation at 4K Ultra. This combination, ranked 2301 out of 2887 tested combos in this game, demonstrates that the CPU’s strong single-thread and multi-thread capabilities are more than sufficient for the puzzle platformer’s demands, leaving the GPU as the primary scaling factor as resolution increases. The benchmark results, all measured rather than estimated, provide a concrete picture of how this specific hardware pairing behaves across nine distinct settings and resolution configurations.

Settings Recommendations

The measured FPS data for this combo suggests that the Medium preset offers the most balanced experience across all three tested resolutions, but the optimal choice depends heavily on the target display and desired frame rate. At 1920x1080, the Medium setting produces an average of 192 FPS with a minimum of 163 FPS and a maximum of 221 FPS, which comfortably exceeds the 144Hz refresh rate common on modern monitors and even approaches 240Hz territory. The Low preset at 1080p hits 240 FPS average, but the jump from Low to Medium costs only 48 FPS (from 240 to 192) while presumably delivering better visual fidelity, making Medium the more sensible choice for most users at this resolution. The High preset at 1080p still manages 120 FPS average, which is acceptable for 120Hz displays, but the drop from Medium to High (192 to 120 FPS) is steeper than the jump from Low to Medium, indicating diminishing returns in performance per setting tier.

Moving to 2560x1440, the Medium preset again emerges as the recommended starting point, with an average of 138 FPS and a minimum of 117 FPS. This means the combo can hold above 115 FPS even in the most demanding moments captured by the minimum metric, which is well-suited for 144Hz 1440p gaming. The Low preset at 1440p reaches 172 FPS average, but the visual compromise is unnecessary when Medium delivers 138 FPS, a figure that remains highly playable and smooth. High at 1440p drops to 86 FPS average, which is still playable but begins to feel less fluid on high-refresh-rate panels, and Ultra falls to 82 FPS, showing that the gap between High and Ultra at this resolution is relatively small (only 4 FPS) compared to the 52 FPS gap between Medium and High.

At 3840x2160, the situation changes dramatically. The Medium preset produces 87 FPS average with a minimum of 74 FPS and a maximum of 100 FPS, making it the only preset at 4K that consistently stays above the 60 FPS threshold. Low at 4K reaches 108 FPS average, which is impressive for this GPU class, but the visual quality loss at native 4K resolution is substantial. High at 4K drops to 54 FPS average, which falls short of the 60 FPS target for many users, and Ultra at 4K bottoms out at 52 FPS average. For 4K displays, the Medium preset is the clear recommendation if playability is the priority; however, users with 60Hz 4K monitors might find the High preset’s 54 FPS acceptable given the better image quality, though the data shows it is technically below the 60 FPS line. The benchmark results indicate that this combo is not well-suited for 4K Ultra settings, as the 52 FPS average suggests the GPU is struggling with the combined load of resolution and maximum graphical effects.

GPU Role

The Intel Arc B570, built on the Xe2-HPG architecture and fabricated on a 5 nm process by TSMC, brings 10 GB of GDDR6 memory across a 160-bit bus, yielding a memory bandwidth of 380.0 GB/s. The GPU’s base and boost clocks are both set at 2500 MHz, with memory clocked at 2375 MHz for 19 Gbps effective speed. This memory configuration is a critical factor in Inside’s performance, as the game’s art style—characterized by dark, atmospheric environments and subtle lighting effects—does not appear to be heavily VRAM-limited at the tested settings. The 10 GB frame buffer is sufficient across all presets, as evidenced by the fact that performance scales predictably with resolution rather than showing sudden drops that would indicate memory capacity constraints.

The GPU’s shading units number 2304, with 144 texture mapping units and 80 render output units, which translates to a pixel rate of 200.0 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 360.0 GTexel/s. The FP32 compute throughput is 11.52 TFLOPS, with FP16 reaching 23.04 TFLOPS at a 2:1 ratio. These specifications place the Arc B570 in a competitive position relative to its nearest rivals in the benchmark database; its average benchmark score of 20556 is within 0.1% of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile (20534) and 0.1% below the Intel Arc A750 (20582). The deltaPct values show a 0.1% advantage over the RTX 3070 Mobile, a -0.1% deficit against the Arc A750, a 0.4% lead over the NVIDIA Quadro M4000M (20480), and a -0.5% gap to the AMD Radeon R9 M390X (20662). These near-identical scores indicate that the Arc B570 performs essentially on par with these cards in synthetic benchmarks, but the Inside measurements reveal how the GPU’s architectural characteristics manifest in a real-world game scenario.

The GPU’s 65th percentile ranking among all GPUs suggests it sits in the upper-middle tier of the performance spectrum, which aligns with the measured FPS data showing playable frame rates at 1080p and 1440p but struggles at 4K Ultra. The 150 W TDP and dual-slot design are modest for this performance class, though such details are secondary to the actual frame rate outcomes presented in the measured data. The ray tracing cores (18) and DirectX 12 Ultimate support indicate future-proofing for newer titles, but Inside is a 2016 puzzle platformer that does not appear to leverage these features based on the performance scaling observed.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS deltas from 1080p to 4K reveal a GPU-bound scenario at higher resolutions, while the CPU’s headroom becomes apparent at lower resolutions. Moving from 1920x1080 to 2560x1440 on the Medium preset, the average FPS drops from 192 to 138, a reduction of 54 FPS or approximately 28%. The subsequent transition from 1440p to 4K on the same preset sees the average fall from 138 to 87, a 51 FPS drop or roughly 37%. This progressive decline indicates that the Arc B570’s rendering throughput is the limiting factor as pixel count increases, while the Ryzen 7 7800X3D’s processing power remains underutilized.

The Low preset shows the most dramatic scaling behavior. At 1080p Low, the combo achieves 240 FPS average, which drops to 172 FPS at 1440p (a 68 FPS decline) and further to 108 FPS at 4K (a 64 FPS decline from 1440p). The fact that Low settings at 4K still produce 108 FPS, while High settings at 4K only manage 54 FPS, underscores how much the graphical preset—rather than the resolution alone—impacts the GPU workload. This suggests that Inside’s higher presets introduce effects that are disproportionately expensive on this GPU architecture, possibly related to lighting or post-processing computations that stress the shading units.

The High preset exhibits the steepest relative drop across resolutions: 120 FPS at 1080p, 86 FPS at 1440p, and 54 FPS at 4K. The percentage declines are roughly 28% from 1080p to 1440p and 37% from 1440p to 4K, mirroring the Medium preset’s scaling pattern. Ultra shows similar behavior with 114 FPS at 1080p, 82 FPS at 1440p, and 52 FPS at 4K. The consistency of these scaling ratios across presets indicates that the GPU’s pixel throughput and fill rate are the dominant constraints, rather than any memory bandwidth or cache-related bottlenecks. The 380.0 GB/s memory bandwidth appears adequate, as performance does not exhibit the nonlinear collapses that would accompany bandwidth saturation.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo’s rank of 2301 out of 2887 tested combinations places it in the 20th percentile of all tested configs for Inside, meaning roughly 80% of other CPU-GPU pairings achieve higher performance in this game. This relatively low ranking is notable given that the individual components have respectable benchmark standings; the Ryzen 7 7800X3D ranks in the 83rd percentile among all CPUs, while the Arc B570 falls in the 65th percentile among GPUs. The discrepancy between component-level percentiles and the in-game combo rank suggests that Inside’s performance characteristics favor configurations with higher-end GPUs, as the game’s modest CPU demands do not allow the 7800X3D’s strengths to compensate for the GPU’s mid-range positioning.

The CPU’s nearest rivals in synthetic benchmarks—the AMD Ryzen 7 8700G (avg score 33089), Intel Core i7-13650HX (33089), and AMD Ryzen 7 7745HX (33091)—all show deltaPct values of 0%, indicating essentially identical average scores to the 7800X3D’s 33079. The AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H trails at 33201 with a -0.4% delta, meaning the 7800X3D is 0.4% behind that chip. These negligible differences in CPU benchmarks do not translate to meaningful FPS variation in Inside, reinforcing that the GPU is the performance bottleneck for this pairing. The GPU’s rivals show similarly tight clustering, with all four nearest competitors within 0.5% of the Arc B570’s average score, yet the in-game rank suggests that real-world Inside performance may diverge from these synthetic averages.

Given that the combo rank is based on all tested configurations, the 2301st position indicates that this pairing is better suited for less demanding titles or lower resolutions. In Inside, the measured FPS at 1080p Medium (192 FPS) is objectively strong, but the rank reflects that many other combos achieve even higher frame rates, likely due to superior GPUs that can push the game’s engine to its limits. The 4K Ultra result of 52 FPS places this combo firmly outside the bounds of high-end 4K gaming, which is consistent with the GPU’s 65th percentile standing.

CPU Role

The AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D, part of the 7000 series built on the Zen 4 architecture (codename Raphael) using TSMC’s 5 nm process, provides 8 cores and 16 threads with a base clock of 4.20 GHz and a boost clock of 5.00 GHz. The CPU’s 96 MB of shared L3 cache is a defining feature, though Inside’s performance data does not show evidence of this cache being a differentiator, as the game’s puzzle platformer nature likely does not create the cache-sensitive workloads seen in simulation or strategy titles. The 11,270 million transistors on a 71 mm² die, yielding a density that is not explicitly stated in the data, underscore the chip’s complexity, but the measured FPS figures are what matter for this analysis.

The CPU’s benchmark results show strong single-thread performance with a 3DMark single-thread score of 959, a Cinebench R15 single-core score of 281.5, and a Geekbench single-core score of 2426. Multi-threaded scores include a 3DMark max-threads score of 7967, Cinebench R23 multi-core of 16817, and Geekbench multi-core of 15610. The PassMark multi-thread score of 34293 and single-thread score of 3759 further confirm the CPU’s capability. However, in Inside, the 1080p Low preset yielding 240 FPS average suggests that the CPU can feed the GPU with frames faster than the GPU can render them at lower settings, but the 240 FPS cap may be an engine limit rather than a CPU limit, as the game is from 2016 and may have frame rate ceilings.

The 120 W TDP and AM5 socket platform with DDR5 memory support (dual-channel, 83.2 GB/s bandwidth) provide ample memory bandwidth for the game’s data streaming needs. The CPU’s 83rd percentile ranking among all CPUs, with an average benchmark score of 33079, places it slightly below its nearest rivals by margins of 0% to -0.4%, indicating that the 7800X3D is essentially on par with the Ryzen 7 8700G, Core i7-13650HX, and Ryzen 7 7745HX in synthetic tests. In Inside, the CPU’s role is to maintain consistent frame pacing, and the minimum FPS figures—such as 163 FPS at 1080p Medium and 117 FPS at 1440p Medium—suggest that the CPU avoids stutters or frame time spikes that would degrade the experience. The lack of any measured minimum FPS below 74 FPS across all settings and resolutions indicates that the CPU never becomes a source of severe frame drops, even at 4K Ultra where the GPU is clearly saturated.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the Low preset achieves an average of 240 FPS, representing the maximum measured result for this combo in any configuration. The Medium preset at 1080p delivers 192 FPS average with a minimum of 163 FPS and a maximum of 221 FPS, showing that the minimum stays well above the 144 FPS threshold. High at 1080p falls to 120 FPS average, and Ultra at 1080p produces 114 FPS average. The difference between High and Ultra at 1080p is only 6 FPS, indicating that the Ultra preset’s additional effects have minimal performance impact at this resolution, likely because the GPU has spare capacity.

At 2560x1440, the Low preset yields 172 FPS average, which is a 68 FPS reduction from the 1080p Low figure. Medium at 1440p produces 138 FPS average with a minimum of 117 FPS and a maximum of 159 FPS, meaning the minimum is still above 115 FPS, making it suitable for 120Hz displays. High at 1440p drops to 86 FPS average, and Ultra at 1440p achieves 82 FPS average. The 4 FPS gap between High and Ultra at 1440p is the smallest of any resolution, suggesting that the GPU is hitting a similar performance ceiling for both presets, possibly due to a shared rendering bottleneck like pixel fill rate.

At 3840x2160, the Low preset delivers 108 FPS average, which is a 64 FPS drop from the 1440p Low figure. Medium at 4K produces 87 FPS average with a minimum of 74 FPS and a maximum of 100 FPS, making it the only 4K preset with a minimum above 60 FPS. High at 4K falls to 54 FPS average, which is below the 60 FPS target for smooth gaming on standard refresh rate monitors. Ultra at 4K bottoms out at 52 FPS average, the lowest measured figure in the entire dataset. The scaling from Medium to High at 4K (87 to 54 FPS, a 33 FPS drop) is much steeper than the equivalent transition at 1440p (138 to 86 FPS, a 52 FPS drop) in absolute terms, but proportionally similar, confirming that the GPU’s render output units are the limiting factor at 4K.

The measured data shows that this combo’s performance envelope spans from 240 FPS at 1080p Low to 52 FPS at 4K Ultra, a range of 188 FPS. The Medium preset at 1440p, with 138 FPS average and a minimum of 117 FPS, represents the best balance of resolution, visual quality, and frame rate consistency. For users prioritizing maximum frame rates, the 1080p Medium setting’s 192 FPS average with a 163 FPS minimum provides a stutter-free experience on high-refresh monitors. The 4K results indicate that only the Low and Medium presets are viable for playable frame rates, with Medium at 87 FPS being the recommended choice for 4K users who can tolerate the visual trade-offs compared to High or Ultra.