Inside

The benchmark data for Inside with the Intel Core i5-12400F and AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT shows a configuration that scales predictably across resolutions, though the relationship between settings presets and frame rate is not linear. The combo ranks 1070th out of 1671 tested configurations, placing it in the lower-middle portion of the database for this title. This pairing of a 6-core, 12-thread Alder Lake processor with an 8 GB RDNA 2 GPU delivers playable results at every tested setting, but the performance ceiling varies dramatically depending on how the game is configured.

Resolution Scaling

The frame rate drop from 1080p to 4K is substantial, but the pattern reveals that the GPU becomes the primary limiting factor only at the highest resolution. At 1080p with Low settings, the combo produces 291.3 FPS, which drops to 211 FPS at 1440p and further to 129.4 FPS at 4K. This represents a 55.6% reduction from 1080p to 4K at Low settings, indicating that the RX 6650 XT is being pushed harder as pixel count increases. The scaling is more pronounced at higher presets: High settings yield 144.1 FPS at 1080p, 103.6 FPS at 1440p, and 65.1 FPS at 4K — a 54.8% decline overall.

The data suggests that at 1080p, the CPU still has headroom, as the jump from Low to Ultra costs only 149.8 FPS (from 291.3 to 141.3). At 4K, the same settings spread narrows to a 63.5 FPS difference (from 129.4 to 65.9), which indicates the GPU is increasingly saturated. Medium settings at 4K produce 107.6 FPS, which is surprisingly close to the 1440p High result of 103.6 FPS — a sign that the game's medium preset at 4K is roughly equivalent in demand to high at 1440p. The 4K Ultra result of 65.9 FPS is nearly identical to the 4K High result of 65.1 FPS, suggesting that the Ultra preset adds minimal additional load over High at this resolution.

How This Combo Ranks

With a rank of 1070 out of 1671 combos, this configuration sits in the 36th percentile of all tested systems for Inside. This is a lower position than the component-level percentiles might suggest: the CPU ranks in the 77th percentile against all processors, and the GPU ranks in the 72nd percentile against all graphics cards. The discrepancy indicates that Inside is not particularly demanding on either component, and the combo's rank is dragged down by the fact that many other configurations with higher-end parts achieve similar frame rates due to the game's relatively modest requirements.

The CPU's nearest rivals in general benchmarks are the Intel Core i7-8700K (0.1% higher average score), Intel Core i5-1335U (0.3% higher), AMD Ryzen 5 7533HS (0.7% lower), and AMD EPYC 7773X (1.3% higher). These deltas are all within a narrow band, meaning the i5-12400F's processing power is not a differentiator in this title. The GPU's nearest rivals include the AMD Radeon RX 6800M (0% delta), AMD Radeon RX 470 (0.1% higher), Intel Arc A370M (0.5% lower), and AMD Radeon RX Vega M GH (0.6% lower). The RX 6650 XT is effectively tied with these cards in aggregate benchmarks, which explains why the combo's rank is unremarkable — the game does not stress the hardware enough to separate these components from their peers.

GPU Role

The Radeon RX 6650 XT features 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus, delivering 280.3 GB/s of bandwidth. The GPU clocks are relatively high for the RDNA 2 architecture: a base clock of 2055 MHz, game clock of 2410 MHz, and boost clock of 2635 MHz. The memory runs at 2190 MHz with 17.5 Gbps effective speed. These specifications translate to a pixel rate of 168.6 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 337.3 GTexel/s, with FP32 performance of 10.79 TFLOPS.

For Inside, the VRAM capacity is not a limiting factor at any tested resolution. The game's visual style — a 2D side-scrolling puzzle platformer with atmospheric lighting — does not require large texture buffers. The 8 GB frame buffer is more than sufficient even at 4K Ultra, as evidenced by the 65.9 FPS result. The GPU's 64 ROPs and 128 TMUs handle the game's rendering efficiently, and the PCIe 4.0 x8 interface provides adequate bandwidth for this workload. The GPU's passmark G3D score of 17166 and 3DMark Steel Nomad score of 1859 indicate solid raw performance, but the game's low geometric complexity means the card rarely reaches its compute limits.

Settings Recommendations

The measured data shows that the Ultra preset provides negligible gains over High at every resolution. At 1080p, Ultra delivers 141.3 FPS versus 144.1 FPS on High — a difference of 2.8 FPS. At 1440p, the gap narrows to 4.9 FPS (98.7 vs 103.6), and at 4K, Ultra actually performs slightly worse than High (65.9 vs 65.1 FPS, a 1.2% deficit). This suggests that the Ultra preset in Inside introduces settings that do not meaningfully improve visual quality while consuming additional GPU resources.

The Medium preset offers the best balance of performance and quality. At 1080p, Medium produces 231.5 FPS, which is 87.4 FPS higher than High. At 1440p, Medium achieves 170.5 FPS versus 103.6 FPS on High — a 64.7% improvement. Even at 4K, Medium holds 107.6 FPS, which is comfortably above the 60 FPS threshold and 42.5 FPS higher than High. For users with 144Hz displays, Medium at 1080p or 1440p is the only preset that fully saturates the refresh rate. Low settings push frame rates to 291.3 FPS at 1080p and 211 FPS at 1440p, but the visual compromise is likely unnecessary given the Medium preset's strong results.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the combo delivers 291.3 FPS on Low, 231.5 FPS on Medium, 144.1 FPS on High, and 141.3 FPS on Ultra. The spread from Low to Ultra is 150 FPS, with the largest single drop occurring between Medium and High (87.4 FPS). This indicates that the High preset introduces significant rendering costs over Medium, likely related to shadow quality or post-processing effects that are computationally expensive on this GPU.

At 2560x1440, the results are 211 FPS on Low, 170.5 FPS on Medium, 103.6 FPS on High, and 98.7 FPS on Ultra. The Medium-to-High drop is 66.9 FPS, again the largest step. The 1440p results scale almost exactly in proportion to 1080p: Low drops by 27.6%, Medium by 26.3%, High by 28.1%, and Ultra by 30.1%. This consistent scaling suggests that the GPU's compute units are the bottleneck, as the workload increases linearly with pixel count.

At 3840x2160, the results are 129.4 FPS on Low, 107.6 FPS on Medium, 65.1 FPS on High, and 65.9 FPS on Ultra. The 4K results show a different pattern: Low-to-Medium drops by 21.8 FPS, but Medium-to-High drops by 42.5 FPS, nearly double the previous step. The High and Ultra results are essentially identical (65.1 vs 65.9), confirming that the Ultra preset adds no measurable performance penalty at 4K but also no benefit. The 4K Low result of 129.4 FPS is still above 120 FPS, making this resolution viable for high-refresh-rate gaming if visual fidelity is sacrificed.