Inside

The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER combination delivers exceptional performance in Inside, a 2016 puzzle platformer that is far more demanding at high refresh rates than its minimalist art style suggests. With measured frame rates ranging from 115.7 FPS at 4K Ultra to 403.2 FPS at 1080p Low, this pairing proves that the CPU’s 3D V-Cache and the GPU’s 16 GB of GDDR6X memory are both heavily utilized, though the scaling patterns reveal a system that is primarily GPU-bound at higher resolutions and increasingly CPU-bound as resolution drops.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate progression across resolutions is stark and highly informative. At 1080p with Low settings, the combo achieves 403.2 FPS, which drops to 366 FPS at 1440p and 242.3 FPS at 4K. This represents a 39.9% performance decline from 1080p to 4K at Low settings, indicating that even at 4K, the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is not fully saturated, as the CPU is still capable of pushing over 240 frames per second. The gap narrows considerably at higher settings. With High settings, the combo delivers 268.7 FPS at 1080p, 193.3 FPS at 1440p, and 121.8 FPS at 4K — a 54.7% drop from 1080p to 4K, showing a clear shift toward GPU limitation as the pixel count and shading complexity increase.

The Medium preset follows a similar trajectory: 372.5 FPS at 1080p, 313.7 FPS at 1440p, and 196.7 FPS at 4K. The 47.2% reduction from 1080p to 4K at Medium is less severe than at High, suggesting that the game’s Medium preset imposes less shading load, allowing the CPU to maintain a larger share of the bottleneck. Ultra settings produce the most GPU-bound results: 256.4 FPS at 1080p, 184.6 FPS at 1440p, and 115.7 FPS at 4K, a 54.9% drop. The consistency of the 1080p-to-4K decline at High and Ultra (both around 55%) indicates that these presets are where the GPU’s 44.10 TFLOPS FP32 throughput and 672.3 GB/s memory bandwidth become the limiting factors.

At 1080p Low, the 403.2 FPS result is particularly telling. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D, with its 5.20 GHz boost clock and 96 MB of shared L3 cache, is clearly capable of feeding frames far beyond typical display refresh rates, but the data shows diminishing returns as settings increase. The difference between 1080p Low and 1440p Low is 37.2 FPS (9.2%), while the difference between 1440p Low and 4K Low is 123.7 FPS (33.8%). This non-linear scaling confirms that resolution is the dominant variable, and the GPU’s 256-bit memory bus is the primary constraint at 4K, even with the relatively modest demands of a 2D side-scroller.

GPU Role

The RTX 4070 Ti SUPER’s role in Inside is defined by its memory subsystem and clock speeds. The GPU runs at a base clock of 2340 MHz with a boost of 2610 MHz, and its 16 GB of GDDR6X memory operates at 21 Gbps effective across a 256-bit bus, yielding 672.3 GB/s of bandwidth. For a game that relies heavily on texture streaming and alpha effects, this bandwidth is ample, as evidenced by the 242.3 FPS result at 4K Low, which is still nearly double the 120 Hz refresh rate target.

The VRAM capacity of 16 GB is never a limiting factor in Inside, as even the Ultra preset at 4K produces 115.7 FPS without memory-related stutters. However, the benchmark results show that the GPU’s compute resources are what scale with settings. The jump from Low to Medium at 4K is 45.6 FPS (18.8% reduction), while Medium to High is 74.9 FPS (38.1% reduction), and High to Ultra is 6.1 FPS (5.0% reduction). This pattern suggests that the High preset is the sweet spot for the GPU’s 8448 shading units and 264 tensor cores, as the incremental cost of Ultra is minimal in terms of performance but likely adds negligible visual improvements for a game of this style.

The GPU’s 86th percentile ranking among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 48704, places it in strong company, though its nearest rivals — including the NVIDIA CMP 50HX at -0.7% and the Intel Arc A550M at -2.1% — are not direct gaming competitors. In Inside, the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER’s Ada Lovelace architecture, with 66 RT cores and 264 tensor cores, is underutilized since the game lacks ray tracing and DLSS support, but the raw rasterization performance is more than sufficient. The pixel rate of 250.6 GPixel/s and texture rate of 689.0 GTexel/s are the specifications that matter here, and they deliver accordingly.

FAQ

*Q: What is the highest average FPS achievable with this combo in Inside?*

A: The highest measured average FPS is 403.2, achieved at 1920x1080 resolution with Low settings.

Q: How does the combo perform at 4K Ultra settings?

A: At 3840x2160 with Ultra settings, the combo delivers an average of 115.7 FPS, which is above the 60 FPS standard but below the 120 FPS high-refresh threshold.

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

A: At 2560x1440 with Medium settings, the combo achieves 313.7 FPS. The 16.3% drop from 1080p Medium (372.5 FPS) indicates a balanced load, with the GPU beginning to assert more influence but the CPU still contributing significantly.

Q: What is the performance difference between Low and Ultra at 1080p?

A: At 1920x1080, Low settings produce 403.2 FPS while Ultra produces 256.4 FPS, a difference of 146.8 FPS (36.4% reduction).

Q: How does the combo rank among all tested configurations?

A: This combo ranks 88th out of 1671 tested combinations, placing it in the top 5.3% of all configurations.

Q: Does the GPU’s 16 GB VRAM ever become a limiting factor?

A: No. Even at 4K Ultra, the combo maintains 115.7 FPS with no indication of memory capacity issues, as Inside is not a VRAM-intensive title.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo’s rank of 88 out of 1671 tested configurations places it in the 94.7th percentile of all combinations, which is an exceptional standing for a game released in 2016. This ranking is driven primarily by the CPU’s extraordinary gaming performance — the Ryzen 7 9800X3D sits in the 90th percentile among all CPUs with an average benchmark score of 37780, just 0.1% behind the Intel Xeon 6353P and 0.7% behind the Intel Core i5-13600KF. The GPU, while ranked 86th among all GPUs, contributes a strong average benchmark score of 48704, which is 1.6% ahead of the NVIDIA RTX A2000 and 2.0% ahead of the NVIDIA RTX A1000 Mobile.

What makes this ranking particularly noteworthy is that the CPU’s nearest rivals are largely workstation or laptop parts, underscoring the 9800X3D’s dominance in gaming workloads. The 3D V-Cache, which provides 96 MB of shared L3 cache, is the key differentiator in Inside, a game that benefits from large cache pools for its physics and collision detection. The data shows that the combo’s rank is not merely a function of high-end components, but of the specific synergy between the CPU’s cache architecture and the GPU’s bandwidth. The 88th rank means that only 87 other combinations — likely featuring even more powerful GPUs like the RTX 4090 series — outperform it, and those are typically paired with CPUs that lack the 9800X3D’s gaming-specific optimizations.

Settings Recommendations

The measured data provides clear guidance for optimizing the Inside experience. For players targeting 60 FPS, every resolution and preset combination in the FACT PACK exceeds this threshold, with the lowest result being 115.7 FPS at 4K Ultra. At 4K, Ultra settings are viable, but the 5.0% drop from High (121.8 FPS) to Ultra (115.7 FPS) is minimal, making High the recommended preset for 4K as it offers near-maximum visual quality with a 6.1 FPS advantage.

For 1440p, the High preset at 193.3 FPS is the optimal balance, as it is 8.7 FPS faster than Ultra (184.6 FPS) while the jump from Medium (313.7 FPS) to High is 120.4 FPS (38.4% reduction). The 1440p Medium result of 313.7 FPS is overkill for most displays, so High is the sensible choice. At 1080p, the High preset at 268.7 FPS is the best experience, as it provides 12.3 FPS more than Ultra (256.4 FPS) while the difference between Medium (372.5 FPS) and High is 103.8 FPS (27.9%), which is beyond the refresh rate of nearly all monitors.

The Low presets, while delivering the highest frame rates (403.2 FPS at 1080p), are not recommended for actual gameplay, as the visual compromise in a puzzle platformer — where environmental cues and lighting are integral to the experience — likely outweighs the performance benefit. The data suggests that High is the universal sweet spot across all three resolutions, delivering 268.7 FPS at 1080p, 193.3 FPS at 1440p, and 121.8 FPS at 4K, all of which are well above the 60 FPS standard and competitive with high-refresh-rate displays.