Inside

The Intel Core i5-10400F paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER delivers a strong showing in Inside, a title that is far more forgiving on hardware than its puzzle-platformer genre might suggest. The combo sits in the 753rd position out of 1,671 tested combinations, placing it in the upper-middle tier of the database. This rank reflects a system that is neither at the bleeding edge nor struggling to keep up; it is a configuration that comfortably clears the frame rate thresholds most users target, with the GPU doing the heavy lifting while the older six-core processor handles the game's modest CPU demands without presenting a meaningful bottleneck at standard resolutions.

How This Combo Ranks

The 753rd rank out of 1,671 combos places this system in the 55th percentile of tested configurations for Inside. This is a respectable position, but it does not tell the full story. The rank is heavily influenced by the RTX 4070 SUPER's raw graphics throughput, which pushes frame rates well into triple digits across all settings and resolutions. However, the i5-10400F's position in the broader CPU landscape—73rd percentile against all processors—suggests that in a lighter title like Inside, the processor is not the limiting factor. The data indicates that the combo's rank is driven almost entirely by GPU performance, as the game's visual style and 2.5D perspective place minimal strain on multi-threaded CPU resources. When compared to the nearest rivals in the CPU benchmarks, the i5-10400F's average score of 14,168 is within 1.2% of the AMD Ryzen 3 7320C and Intel Core i5-8500, meaning that swapping the processor for a similarly-tiered part would result in negligible frame rate differences in this specific game. The GPU, conversely, sits at the 84th percentile against all GPUs, and its nearest rivals—like the NVIDIA RTX A6000 and AMD Radeon RX 7650 GRE—are within 0.3% of its average score, indicating that the graphics card is the primary driver of this combo's placement.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER is the dominant component in this pairing for Inside. With 12 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 192-bit bus, the card provides 504.2 GB/s of bandwidth, which is more than sufficient for a game that does not feature high-resolution texture packs or open-world streaming. The GPU's architecture, Ada Lovelace on a 5 nm process from TSMC, includes 7,168 shading units, 224 texture mapping units, and 80 ROPs. These specifications translate to a pixel rate of 198.0 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 554.4 GTexel/s, which are the key metrics for a side-scrolling title with limited geometric complexity. The boost clock of 2,475 MHz ensures that the card operates at high frequencies during gameplay, and the benchmark results reflect this: at 1080p with High settings, the combo achieves 180.1 FPS average, which is only slightly below the 230.4 FPS seen at Low settings. The GPU's FP32 performance of 35.48 TFLOPS is far beyond what Inside requires, meaning the card is never fully utilized; instead, the frame rate is capped by the game's engine and CPU overhead. The 84th percentile ranking against all GPUs confirms that this is a high-end part, and in a game with such low graphical demands, it acts as an overqualified but effective engine for producing buttery-smooth frame rates.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data across resolutions reveals a clear pattern of GPU dominance, but also shows where the CPU begins to exert influence. At 1080p with High settings, the combo averages 180.1 FPS. Moving to 1440p High, the average drops to 160.6 FPS, a reduction of 19.5 FPS, or roughly 11%. At 4K High, the average falls to 114.9 FPS, which is a 36% decrease from the 1440p figure. This scaling is not linear, and the diminishing returns at higher resolutions indicate that the GPU is still the primary bottleneck, but the CPU's single-thread performance—evidenced by a Passmark single-thread score of 2,541 and a Cinebench R23 single-core score of 1,453—becomes more relevant as frame rates climb. At 1080p Low, the combo hits 230.4 FPS, and the gap between Low and High settings at the same resolution is 50.3 FPS. This gap narrows to 29.1 FPS at 1440p and 65.5 FPS at 4K, suggesting that at 4K, the GPU is working harder to fill pixels, reducing the impact of settings changes. The data shows that at 1080p and 1440p, the system is often frame-limited by the CPU's ability to feed the GPU, especially at lower settings where the graphics card has spare capacity. At 4K, the GPU becomes the clear limiter, as evidenced by the 112.7 FPS Ultra result versus 180.4 FPS at Low—a spread of 67.7 FPS that highlights the card's scaling under load.

FAQ

Q: What is the average frame rate at 1080p with High settings for this combo?

A: The combo achieves an average of 180.1 FPS at 1080p with High settings, which is well above the refresh rate of most monitors.

Q: How does the i5-10400F compare to its nearest CPU rivals in terms of average benchmark score?

A: The i5-10400F has an average benchmark score of 14,168, which is 0.4% higher than the AMD EPYC 7552 and 0.8% lower than the AMD Ryzen 3 7320C, indicating near-identical performance.

Q: What is the GPU's percentile ranking against all GPUs in the database?

A: The RTX 4070 SUPER is in the 84th percentile against all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 42,576.

Q: Does the frame rate drop significantly when moving from 1440p to 4K at High settings?

A: Yes, the average FPS drops from 160.6 at 1440p to 114.9 at 4K, a reduction of 45.7 FPS, or about 28.5%.

*Q: What is the combo's rank in Inside out of all tested configurations?*

A: The combo ranks 753rd out of 1,671 tested combos for this game, placing it in the upper-middle range.

Q: How much faster is the combo at 1080p Low compared to 1080p Ultra?

A: At 1080p, the average FPS at Low is 230.4, while at Ultra it is 177.5, a difference of 52.9 FPS.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i5-10400F, with its 6 cores and 12 threads, is a Comet Lake processor on Intel's 14 nm process. Its base clock of 2.90 GHz and boost clock of 4.30 GHz provide adequate single-thread performance for Inside, which is not a multi-threaded workload. The CPU's benchmark scores—such as a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 10,297 and a single-core score of 1,453—show that it is a mid-range part from 2020, and its 73rd percentile ranking against all CPUs confirms this. In the context of Inside, the CPU's role is to maintain a stable frame pacing, and the data shows that it succeeds. At 1080p Low, the combo reaches 230.4 FPS, which is a high enough frame rate that the CPU's single-thread performance (Passmark single-thread score of 2,541) becomes a potential limiting factor. However, the game's low CPU overhead means that the i5-10400F's 12 MB of shared L3 cache and DDR4 memory support at 42.7 GB/s are more than sufficient. The nearest CPU rivals, including the Intel Core i5-8500 and AMD Ryzen Embedded V2546, have average scores within 1.2% of the i5-10400F, which means that in this game, the choice of processor has minimal impact on the final frame rate. The CPU's 65 W TDP and dual-channel memory bus are adequate for this workload, and the data indicates that the system is GPU-bound in most scenarios, with the CPU only becoming a factor at the lowest settings and highest frame rates, where its 2-thread score of 1,350 in 3DMark suggests limited headroom for extreme frame rates beyond the measured values.