Inside

The Intel Core i5-11400F paired with the AMD Radeon RX 6600 delivers a remarkably scalable experience in Inside, a puzzle platformer that proves far less demanding than its atmospheric presentation suggests. Benchmark data across three resolutions and four quality presets reveals a system that shifts from being entirely GPU-bound at 4K to increasingly CPU-limited at 1080p, with the measured frames per second telling a clear story about where the bottleneck lies.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS drop from 1080p to 4K is dramatic but expected, and the shape of that curve reveals a system with headroom to spare. At the High preset, the combo delivers 129.8 FPS at 1920x1080, falls to 89.7 FPS at 2560x1440, and bottoms out at 60.6 FPS at 3840x2160. That is a 53.3% reduction in frame rate from 1080p to 4K, indicating that the RX 6600 is doing progressively heavier lifting as pixel count rises, while the i5-11400F remains largely untaxed.

The Low preset shows an even starker scaling pattern. At 1080p, the system produces 260.1 FPS — a figure that suggests the CPU is nearing its practical limit for this title. Moving to 1440p drops that to 187.4 FPS, and at 4K it still manages 117 FPS. The fact that Low settings at 4K outperform High settings at 1440p by 27.3 FPS underscores how much of the performance envelope here is dictated by resolution rather than visual complexity.

The Medium preset follows the expected trajectory: 203.6 FPS at 1080p, 146.8 FPS at 1440p, and 92.7 FPS at 4K. The Ultra preset, meanwhile, shows the narrowest scaling gap between 1440p and 4K — 90.2 FPS versus 54.5 FPS — which suggests that at the highest settings, the GPU is hitting a more consistent workload ceiling. The data indicates that this processor and graphics card combination is well-balanced for 1440p gaming, where even the demanding Ultra preset clears 90 FPS, while 4K Ultra dips below 60 FPS and becomes the only configuration where the experience feels compromised.

How This Combo Ranks

Among the 1,671 tested CPU-GPU combinations in this database, the i5-11400F and RX 6600 pairing ranks 1,324th for Inside. This places it in the bottom 21% of all combos, which initially seems surprising given the strong absolute frame rates. However, the rank reflects the fact that Inside is an older, lightweight title where even mid-range hardware from recent generations can achieve extremely high frame rates, pushing the top of the leaderboard into triple-digit territory across all resolutions.

The CPU itself sits in the 75th percentile against all processors, with an average benchmark score of 17,181. Its nearest rivals include the AMD Ryzen 7 5700U at 17,189 (a 0% delta), the Intel Core i7-1260P at 17,212 (a -0.2% delta), and the Intel Core Ultra 7 164U at 17,215 (also -0.2% delta). The tight clustering — all within a fraction of a percent — means the i5-11400F is effectively performance-equivalent to those mobile and hybrid parts in synthetic tests, though its desktop-oriented 6-core, 12-thread configuration with a 4.40 GHz boost clock gives it a distinct advantage in sustained gaming workloads.

The GPU, meanwhile, holds the 69th percentile against all graphics cards with an average benchmark score of 25,235. Its nearest rival is the AMD Radeon 890M at 25,246 (0% delta), followed by the AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP at 25,287 (-0.2% delta) and the AMD Radeon RX 6700M at 25,180 (0.2% delta). The near-identical scores suggest that the RX 6600 sits in a crowded performance band where architectural differences matter less than driver optimization and thermal headroom.

The combination of a 75th-percentile CPU and a 69th-percentile GPU yielding a 21st-percentile ranking in Inside is instructive: it shows that this game rewards raw pixel throughput and memory bandwidth more than compute-heavy features, areas where the RX 6600's 224.0 GB/s bandwidth and 8 GB of GDDR6 memory are adequate but not exceptional.

Settings Recommendations

For players targeting a 60 FPS baseline, the data shows that 4K Ultra is the only configuration that falls short, averaging 54.5 FPS. Dropping to 4K High recovers to 60.6 FPS — a marginal but playable improvement — while 4K Medium jumps to 92.7 FPS, offering a far more comfortable margin. At 1440p, every preset exceeds 89 FPS, meaning players can confidently select Ultra for the best visual fidelity without sacrificing smoothness.

The sweet spot for this combo is 1440p Ultra, which delivers 90.2 FPS and represents the highest visual quality that still maintains a frame rate well above typical display refresh rates. At 1080p, the choice becomes more nuanced: Ultra produces 122.6 FPS, High produces 129.8 FPS, and Medium produces 203.6 FPS. Given that Inside is a atmospheric puzzle platformer where visual polish matters, the jump from Medium to High is nearly imperceptible in frame rate terms (a 36% reduction) but yields noticeably better lighting and shadow quality. The jump from High to Ultra, however, costs only 7.2 FPS and is worth taking if the display supports it.

For competitive or high-refresh-rate play, 1080p Low at 260.1 FPS is the only preset that approaches the limits of what the CPU can feed the GPU, and even then, the 1440p Low figure of 187.4 FPS is high enough to satisfy all but the most demanding esports-oriented setups.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the system produces its highest frame rates across the board. Low settings average 260.1 FPS, Medium averages 203.6 FPS, High averages 129.8 FPS, and Ultra averages 122.6 FPS. The gap between Low and Medium is 56.5 FPS, while the gap between High and Ultra is just 7.2 FPS — a clear indication that the High preset captures nearly all of the visual benefit of Ultra at this resolution.

At 2560x1440, the picture shifts. Low averages 187.4 FPS, Medium averages 146.8 FPS, High averages 89.7 FPS, and Ultra averages 90.2 FPS. Interestingly, Ultra slightly outperforms High here by 0.5 FPS, which is within measurement noise and suggests that the two presets impose nearly identical GPU workloads at this resolution. The Medium to High step is the largest single drop at 57.1 FPS, making Medium the last preset that feels genuinely fluid on a 144 Hz display.

At 3840x2160, the performance ceiling tightens considerably. Low averages 117 FPS, Medium averages 92.7 FPS, High averages 60.6 FPS, and Ultra averages 54.5 FPS. The scaling from Medium to High is a 32.2 FPS drop, while High to Ultra costs only 6.1 FPS. This pattern suggests that the RX 6600's 8 GB frame buffer and 128-bit memory bus become the limiting factors at 4K, particularly when texture quality and shadow resolution scale with the preset.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 6600 is built on the RDNA 2.0 architecture with a 7 nm process from TSMC, featuring 11,060 million transistors on a 237 mm² die. Its 8 GB of GDDR6 memory operates across a 128-bit bus, yielding 224.0 GB/s of bandwidth — a figure that proves sufficient for Inside at 1080p and 1440p but becomes a constraint at 4K Ultra, where the 54.5 FPS result suggests memory pressure.

The GPU's clock behavior is notable: a base clock of 1626 MHz, a game clock of 2044 MHz, and a boost clock of 2491 MHz. The large gap between base and boost — 865 MHz — indicates that the card is designed to aggressively ramp under load, and the measured frame rates confirm that it sustains high clocks in this title. The 1792 shading units and 64 ROPs deliver a pixel rate of 159.4 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 279.0 GTexel/s, which translate directly into the strong 1080p performance observed.

The GPU's 132 W TDP and 300 W suggested PSU requirement place it in the mid-range power tier, and its PCIe 4.0 x8 interface provides adequate bandwidth for this game's data demands. The RX 6600's nearest rival, the AMD Radeon 890M, matches its average benchmark score almost exactly, yet the RX 6600's dedicated 8 GB VRAM and higher sustained clocks give it a measurable edge in Inside's higher-resolution presets. The data shows that this GPU is the clear bottleneck at 4K, while the i5-11400F has enough single-thread throughput — evidenced by its 868 3DMark single-thread score and 2,029 Cinebench R23 single-core score — to keep feeding frames well past 200 FPS at lower resolutions.