Inside

# Inside: Intel Core i5-10400F + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

The Intel Core i5-10400F paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER delivers a decisive performance profile for Inside, a Puzzle Platformer from 2016. This combination ranks 2424th out of 3716 tested combos in this game, placing it in the lower-middle segment of the database. The CPU, with its 6 cores and 12 threads, boosts to 4.30 GHz, while the GPU features 2560 shading units and 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus. Measured results show this pairing produces frame rates ranging from 67 FPS at 4K Ultra to 233 FPS at 1080p Low, indicating a system that can handle the game smoothly across most configurations, though the data reveals specific strengths and bottlenecks that merit closer examination.

Settings Recommendations

The measured FPS data for Inside shows a clear hierarchy across presets, with the Medium setting representing the most balanced experience for this hardware combination. At 1080p, Medium produces an average of 215 FPS with a minimum of 183 FPS and a maximum of 247 FPS, whereas High averages 155 FPS and Ultra drops to 147 FPS. The gap between Medium and High is substantial—60 FPS at 1080p—while the jump from Medium to Low (233 FPS) yields only an 18 FPS improvement, suggesting diminishing returns at lower settings. This pattern holds across resolutions: at 1440p, Medium averages 178 FPS with a 151 FPS minimum, compared to 111 FPS on High and 106 FPS on Ultra; at 4K, Medium delivers 112 FPS with a 95 FPS minimum, while High and Ultra fall to 70 FPS and 67 FPS respectively.

Given these numbers, the Medium preset is the recommended starting point for most users. It maintains average frame rates above 112 FPS at every tested resolution, including 4K, while providing a minimum FPS of 95 at 4K that stays comfortably within playable territory. The Ultra preset, by contrast, offers only marginal visual gains over High—the FPS difference between High and Ultra is 8 FPS at 1080p, 5 FPS at 1440p, and 3 FPS at 4K—making it the least efficient choice for the performance cost. For users prioritizing maximum smoothness, the Low preset at 1080p delivers 233 FPS, but the 18 FPS gain over Medium comes at the expense of visual fidelity that the game's atmospheric puzzle-platformer design likely benefits from. The data suggests that Medium provides the best compromise between visual quality and performance headroom, especially since it keeps minimum FPS above 90 even at 4K resolution.

FAQ

Q: What is the highest average frame rate achievable with this hardware combination?

A: The highest measured average FPS is 233, achieved at 1920x1080 resolution with the Low settings preset. This represents the peak of the measured data, with other 1080p presets ranging from 147 FPS (Ultra) to 215 FPS (Medium).

Q: How does the RTX 2070 SUPER's performance compare to its nearest rivals in general benchmarks?

A: The GPU's average benchmark score is 20282, which places it slightly below all four nearest rivals listed. It trails the NVIDIA Quadro M4000M by 1%, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile by 1.2%, the Intel Arc B570 by 1.3%, and the Intel Arc A750 by 1.5%, indicating very close performance parity within a narrow 1.5% band.

Q: Does the CPU or GPU limit performance at 4K resolution in Inside?

A: The FPS drop from 1080p to 4K suggests GPU limitation. At Medium settings, average FPS falls from 215 at 1080p to 112 at 4K, a 48% reduction, while the CPU's multi-threaded capabilities (Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 10283) remain constant. The GPU's 8 GB VRAM and 448.0 GB/s bandwidth are the more likely constraints at higher resolutions.

Q: What is the minimum FPS recorded across all tested configurations?

A: The lowest minimum FPS in the measured data is 95, observed at 3840x2160 resolution with Medium settings. This is the only resolution-preset combination where a minimum FPS value was recorded below 100, with 1440p Medium minimum at 151 FPS and 1080p Medium minimum at 183 FPS.

Q: How does the CPU's general performance rank among all tested processors?

A: The Intel Core i5-10400F has a percentile rank of 68, meaning it outperforms 68% of all CPUs in the database. Its average benchmark score is 14185, with nearest rivals including the Intel Xeon 6756E (0.2% faster) and AMD EPYC 7552 (0.5% faster), showing close clustering around this performance level.

Q: Are there any settings where the frame rate drops below 60 FPS?

A: No. The lowest average FPS recorded is 67, at 3840x2160 resolution with Ultra settings. Even at the most demanding configuration, the average stays above 60 FPS, and the lowest minimum FPS is 95, confirming that this hardware never dips below playable thresholds in the measured data.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER is the primary driver of frame rate scaling in Inside, as evidenced by the measured FPS patterns across resolutions. The GPU's specifications include a base clock of 1605 MHz and a boost clock of 1770 MHz, with 2560 shading units, 160 TMUs, and 64 ROPs. Its 8 GB of GDDR6 memory runs at 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) across a 256-bit bus, providing 448.0 GB/s of bandwidth. These specifications support the card's general benchmark performance, where it scores 18169 in Passmark G3D and 7557 in Passmark GPU Compute, placing it in the 65th percentile of all GPUs.

In Inside specifically, the GPU's role becomes apparent when examining the FPS differences between settings at each resolution. At 1080p, moving from Low to Ultra reduces average FPS from 233 to 147, a 37% drop that reflects the increased rendering load on the GPU. The same trend appears at 1440p (208 to 106 FPS, a 49% drop) and 4K (140 to 67 FPS, a 52% drop). This scaling pattern indicates that the RTX 2070 SUPER is the limiting component at higher resolutions, as the proportional FPS loss tracks with pixel count increases. The GPU's 12 nm Turing architecture, with 40 RT cores and 320 tensor cores, provides the compute resources necessary for the game's visuals, though Inside's puzzle-platformer nature likely does not heavily utilize ray tracing or DLSS features. The card's 9.062 TFLOPS FP32 performance and 283.2 GTexel/s texture rate are more than adequate for the game's demands, as evidenced by the never-dipping-below-67 FPS results even at 4K Ultra.

How This Combo Ranks

This Intel Core i5-10400F + RTX 2070 SUPER combination ranks 2424th out of 3716 tested combos for Inside, positioning it in the 35th percentile from the top (or 65th from the bottom). This ranking places it in the lower half of all tested systems, which is notable given that the individual components sit at 68th (CPU) and 65th (GPU) percentiles among their respective categories. The discrepancy between component percentiles and combo rank suggests that Inside's performance characteristics do not fully utilize the strengths of this hardware pairing, or that many other combos in the database feature more powerful components.

The combo rank reflects the measured FPS data, which shows strong absolute performance—all configurations exceed 67 FPS average—but the rank of 2424 indicates that a majority of the 3716 tested combinations achieve higher frame rates in this game. This is likely because Inside is a relatively lightweight title for modern hardware, and thus even mid-range combos can saturate the game's demands, making the ranking more dependent on raw CPU and GPU power than on optimization. The 6-core, 12-thread CPU with a boost clock of 4.30 GHz, combined with the GPU's 2560 shading units, produces results that are respectable but not top-tier. For context, the CPU's nearest rivals in general benchmarks (Intel Xeon 6756E at 0.2% faster, AMD EPYC 7552 at 0.5% faster) show that the i5-10400F is competitive within its class, yet the combo's 2424th rank out of 3716 suggests that many systems with higher-tier GPUs or CPUs achieve better performance in Inside.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data reveals how this hardware combination scales across resolutions, with the most complete dataset available for the Medium preset. At 1080p Medium, the average FPS is 215 with a minimum of 183 and maximum of 247. Moving to 1440p Medium reduces the average to 178 FPS (a 17% drop) with a minimum of 151 FPS and maximum of 205 FPS. At 4K Medium, the average falls to 112 FPS (a 37% drop from 1440p) with a minimum of 95 FPS and maximum of 129 FPS. This scaling pattern shows a gradual, consistent decline as resolution increases, with the most significant relative drop occurring between 1440p and 4K.

For other presets, the scaling follows a similar trend but with different magnitudes. At Low settings, the average FPS drops from 233 at 1080p to 208 at 1440p (an 11% reduction) and then to 140 at 4K (a 33% reduction from 1440p). At High settings, the progression is 155 FPS (1080p) → 111 FPS (1440p, a 28% drop) → 70 FPS (4K, a 37% drop). Ultra settings show 147 FPS (1080p) → 106 FPS (1440p, a 28% drop) → 67 FPS (4K, a 37% drop). The consistent pattern of larger percentage drops at higher settings and resolutions indicates GPU-bound scaling, as the CPU's performance remains constant regardless of resolution. The RTX 2070 SUPER's 8 GB VRAM and 448.0 GB/s bandwidth are sufficient to handle the increasing pixel loads, but the data shows that 4K resolution imposes a substantial penalty, with the highest 4K average (140 FPS at Low) still being 40% lower than the corresponding 1080p result (233 FPS).

Measured FPS Breakdown

The complete measured FPS dataset for this hardware combination covers four presets (Low, Medium, High, Ultra) across three resolutions, with Medium being the only preset where minimum and maximum FPS values were recorded for all resolutions.

At 1920x1080, the results are as follows: Low averages 233 FPS, Medium averages 215 FPS with a minimum of 183 FPS and maximum of 247 FPS, High averages 155 FPS, and Ultra averages 147 FPS. The spread from Low to Ultra is 86 FPS, representing a 37% performance reduction at the highest settings. The Medium preset's minimum of 183 FPS ensures smooth gameplay even during demanding scenes, while the maximum of 247 FPS indicates headroom for higher refresh rate displays.

At 2560x1440, the data shows: Low averages 208 FPS, Medium averages 178 FPS with a minimum of 151 FPS and maximum of 205 FPS, High averages 111 FPS, and Ultra averages 106 FPS. The Low-to-Ultra spread narrows to 102 FPS (a 49% reduction), reflecting the increased resolution pressure. The Medium minimum of 151 FPS remains well above typical 144 Hz refresh rates, while the maximum of 205 FPS shows the GPU still has capacity at this resolution.

At 3840x2160, the results are: Low averages 140 FPS, Medium averages 112 FPS with a minimum of 95 FPS and maximum of 129 FPS, High averages 70 FPS, and Ultra averages 67 FPS. The Low-to-Ultra spread is 73 FPS (a 52% reduction), indicating that 4K resolution imposes the heaviest load. The Medium preset's minimum of 95 FPS is the lowest recorded minimum across all configurations, yet it remains above 60 FPS, confirming playable performance even at 4K. The maximum FPS values across all Medium configurations (247 at 1080p, 205 at 1440p, 129 at 4K) demonstrate that frame rates scale down predictably with pixel count.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-10400F plays a supporting role in Inside's performance, as the game's puzzle-platformer nature does not heavily tax the CPU's 6 cores and 12 threads. The processor operates at a base clock of 2.90 GHz and boosts to 4.30 GHz, with a 65 W TDP and 12 MB of shared L3 cache. Its benchmark scores include a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 10283 and single-core score of 1451, a Geekbench multi-core score of 6257, and a Passmark multi-thread score of 12115. These figures position the CPU at the 68th percentile among all processors, with an average benchmark score of 14185 that is closely matched by its nearest rivals (Intel Xeon 6756E at 14163, AMD EPYC 7552 at 14115, Intel Core 7 160UL at 14232, and AMD Ryzen 3 7320C at 14277).

In the context of Inside's measured results, the CPU's role is primarily to provide sufficient single-thread performance to avoid bottlenecking the GPU. The 3DMark single-thread score of 688 and Passmark single-thread score of 2541 indicate solid single-core capability, which is crucial for maintaining consistent frame pacing. The CPU's multi-threaded performance (3DMark max threads score of 4735, Passmark physics score of 696) is more than adequate for a game that likely uses only a few threads, as evidenced by the fact that FPS scales almost entirely with resolution rather than CPU load. The 14 nm Comet Lake architecture, with DDR4 memory support and dual-channel 42.7 GB/s bandwidth, provides sufficient memory throughput for the GPU to access game assets. While the CPU's 68th percentile ranking shows it is not a top-tier processor, the measured FPS data for Inside suggests it does not limit performance—even at 1080p Low, where the CPU would be most likely to bottleneck, the 233 FPS average indicates the processor keeps pace with the GPU's output.