Inside

The Intel Core i5-12400F paired with the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX ranks 267th out of 1,671 tested combinations for Inside, placing it comfortably in the top 16% of all systems evaluated. This is a strong showing for a puzzle platformer, but the ranking reflects the fact that this game is far more dependent on the GPU than on the CPU, and the RX 7900 XTX is the dominant component in this pairing. The i5-12400F is a capable mid-range processor, sitting at the 77th percentile among all CPUs, and its average benchmark score of 19,221 puts it within a razor-thin 0.1% of the Intel Core i7-8700K and 0.3% of the Intel Core i5-1335U. However, the GPU is the star, with the RX 7900 XTX landing at the 85th percentile among all graphics cards, and its average score of 44,019 places it just 0.8% ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile and 1.6% ahead of the NVIDIA Quadro M6000. In a game like Inside, where the visual load is modest by modern standards, the sheer horsepower of this GPU pushes frame rates to extreme levels, making the overall combo rank proof of GPU dominance rather than CPU contribution.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX is the undisputed engine of this system, and its specifications explain why it performs so decisively in Inside. Built on the RDNA 3.0 architecture with the Navi 31 chip, this GPU carries 24 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 384-bit bus, delivering a memory bandwidth of 960.0 GB/s. The memory clock runs at 2500 MHz, which translates to 20 Gbps effective, and the boost clock reaches 2498 MHz, with a game clock of 2365 MHz. These figures are not trivial for a game that is a side-scrolling puzzle platformer; the data shows that the GPU’s massive memory pool and bandwidth are far beyond what Inside requires, but they ensure that frame rates remain exceptionally high even at 4K resolution. The GPU’s shading units number 6,144, with 384 texture mapping units and 192 render output units, and it achieves a pixel rate of 479.6 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 959.2 GTexel/s. In practical terms, the benchmark results indicate that the RX 7900 XTX is never the bottleneck in this pairing; instead, the CPU’s single-thread performance, which is strong but not elite, becomes the limiting factor at lower resolutions where the GPU could otherwise run even faster. The GPU’s 96 ray accelerators are irrelevant for Inside, which does not use ray tracing, but the raw rasterization power is what drives the measured FPS numbers upward.

Settings Recommendations

Examining the measured FPS rows, the optimal experience for Inside with this hardware depends on whether the user prioritizes raw frame rate or visual fidelity. The data shows that the "High" preset offers a balanced compromise across all resolutions, but the "Medium" preset is where the real sweet spot lies for most users. At 1080p, the "Medium" setting delivers 297.3 FPS, which is only 21.2 FPS below the "Low" setting’s 318.5 FPS, but it provides substantially better visual quality. At 1440p, "Medium" hits 266 FPS, which is still far above the refresh rate of any mainstream monitor, and it is 21.3 FPS ahead of "High" at 190.9 FPS. At 4K, "Medium" drops to 193.3 FPS, but this remains a fluid experience that exceeds 120 FPS, while "High" falls to 120.2 FPS and "Ultra" drops further to 116.2 FPS. The "Ultra" preset, while visually the most detailed, offers diminishing returns; at 4K it is only 4 FPS slower than "High," but at 1080p it is 6.4 FPS slower than "High" and 57.1 FPS slower than "Medium." Therefore, the recommendation is to use "Medium" for the best balance of image quality and performance, as it keeps frame rates high enough to avoid any perceptible stutter while providing a clear improvement over "Low." For users with high-refresh-rate displays at 1080p, "High" at 246.6 FPS is still a viable choice, but "Medium" is the data-driven pick for consistent smoothness.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS results for Inside reveal a clear pattern of GPU headroom at lower resolutions and a gradual tightening as resolution increases. At 1920x1080, the lowest resolution tested, the combo delivers extraordinary numbers: 318.5 FPS on "Low," 297.3 FPS on "Medium," 246.6 FPS on "High," and 240.2 FPS on "Ultra." The gap between "Low" and "Ultra" is 78.3 FPS, indicating that even at 1080p, the settings have a measurable impact, but the RX 7900 XTX is so powerful that it never falls below 240 FPS. Moving to 2560x1440, the frame rates remain high but begin to diverge more noticeably: "Low" produces 287.3 FPS, "Medium" produces 266 FPS, "High" produces 190.9 FPS, and "Ultra" produces 182.3 FPS. The drop from 1080p to 1440p is modest for "Low" (a 31.2 FPS reduction) but more pronounced for "High" (a 55.7 FPS reduction), suggesting that the GPU is still the primary driver but that the CPU’s limitations start to surface at higher settings. At 3840x2160, the full 4K resolution, the numbers tell a different story: "Low" yields 240.7 FPS, "Medium" yields 193.3 FPS, "High" yields 120.2 FPS, and "Ultra" yields 116.2 FPS. The gap between "Low" and "Ultra" at 4K is 124.5 FPS, which is significantly larger than at 1080p, demonstrating that the GPU is now working much harder to fill the extra pixels. Notably, the "High" and "Ultra" presets at 4K are nearly identical, with just a 4 FPS difference, while "Medium" is a full 73.1 FPS ahead of "High," making "Medium" the clear choice for 4K play.

Resolution Scaling

The resolution scaling behavior of this combo in Inside shows a predictable but informative trend: frame rates decrease as resolution increases, yet the magnitude of that decrease varies by preset. From 1080p to 4K, the "Low" preset drops from 318.5 FPS to 240.7 FPS, a reduction of 77.8 FPS (or roughly 24.4%). The "Medium" preset drops from 297.3 FPS to 193.3 FPS, a reduction of 104 FPS (or roughly 35%). The "High" preset drops from 246.6 FPS to 120.2 FPS, a reduction of 126.4 FPS (or roughly 51.3%). The "Ultra" preset drops from 240.2 FPS to 116.2 FPS, a reduction of 124 FPS (or roughly 51.6%). This scaling pattern indicates that at lower settings, the frame rate is more likely constrained by the CPU, because the GPU can render frames so quickly that the processor cannot feed it fast enough; at 1080p "Low," the 318.5 FPS figure is approaching the practical limit of what the i5-12400F can sustain in this game. As resolution increases to 4K, the GPU becomes the limiting component, and the frame rate falls proportionally with the pixel count. The fact that "High" and "Ultra" both see roughly a 50% reduction from 1080p to 4K, while "Low" sees only a 24% reduction, confirms that the CPU bottleneck is most severe at low settings and high frame rates. This is a classic sign of a powerful GPU paired with a mid-range CPU; the RX 7900 XTX has the headroom to run Inside at over 300 FPS, but the i5-12400F’s 6 cores and 12 threads, with a boost clock of 4.40 GHz, cap the maximum achievable frame rate. In summary, the data shows that this combo is overwhelmingly GPU-bound at 4K, but at 1080p, the CPU’s single-thread performance becomes a measurable constraint, particularly on the "Low" preset where the GPU is otherwise idle.