Inside

The Intel Core i7-12700KF paired with the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT delivers a performance profile in Inside that is defined by massive headroom at lower resolutions and a clear transition to GPU-bound territory at 4K. The combination ranks 1060th out of 1671 tested configurations, placing it in the lower-middle tier of the database. This ranking is heavily influenced by the GPU's 63rd percentile standing against all graphics cards, while the CPU's 89th percentile score suggests the processor is not the primary constraint in this title. The data indicates a system capable of extremely high frame rates at 1080p and 1440p, with 4K performance remaining playable but requiring settings adjustments to maintain high refresh rates.

How This Combo Ranks

Positioned at rank 1060 out of 1671 combos, this configuration sits in the 36th percentile of tested systems for Inside. The ranking reflects a significant imbalance between the two components: the Core i7-12700KF is a high-end processor that outperforms 89% of all CPUs in the database, while the RX 7600 XT outperforms only 63% of all GPUs. This disparity suggests the combo's overall rank is pulled downward by the graphics card's more modest standing. In practical terms, the system is not among the top performers for this game, but it occupies a solid mid-range position where frame rates remain well above playable thresholds. The CPU's average benchmark score of 35355 places it within 0.3% of the Intel Core i5-13600T and 0.2% of the Intel Core i9-12900HX, indicating that processor performance is tightly clustered among several competing models. The GPU's average score of 20146 places it 1.9% ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER and 0.6% behind the AMD Radeon RX 7600, showing that the XT variant offers only marginal gains over its non-XT sibling. For a game like Inside, which is not graphically intensive by modern standards, this combo's rank is more than adequate, but the data clearly shows the GPU as the limiting factor in achieving higher standings.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i7-12700KF brings substantial processing power to this pairing, featuring 12 cores and 20 threads based on the Alder Lake architecture. Its base clock of 3.60 GHz can boost up to 5.00 GHz, providing strong single-thread performance that is relevant for Inside's physics and logic calculations. The processor's benchmark results confirm its capability: a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 28979 and a single-core score of 4091 demonstrate excellent throughput. In 3DMark testing, the CPU scores 1043 in single-thread and 9983 at max threads, showing good scaling across its core count. The 25 MB of shared L3 cache and dual-channel memory support for both DDR4 and DDR5 provide ample bandwidth for game data. Given that Inside is a puzzle platformer with relatively simple computational demands, the i7-12700KF is never the bottleneck in this system. At 1080p with Low settings, the combo achieves 295.1 FPS, a figure that is only possible when the CPU can feed frames faster than the GPU can render them. The CPU's 89th percentile ranking versus all processors reinforces that it has more than enough headroom for this title, even at lower resolutions where CPU overhead typically becomes more pronounced. The processor's 125W TDP and unlocked multiplier indicate it is designed for performance-oriented systems, though the game itself does not stress it to anywhere near its limits. The nearest rival comparisons show the i7-12700KF trading blows with the Core i5-14400 (0.1% faster) and Core i7-13800H (0.2% slower), confirming that this CPU generation remains competitive in synthetic benchmarks.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT is the determining factor for this combo's performance in Inside. Built on the RDNA 3.0 architecture with the Navi 33 chip, the GPU features 2048 shading units, 128 texture mapping units, and 64 render output units. Its 16 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus provides 288.0 GB/s of bandwidth, which is more than sufficient for a game of this visual complexity. The GPU's boost clock of 2755 MHz and game clock of 2470 MHz enable solid rasterization performance, reflected in its Passmark G3D score of 17132. However, the GPU's 63rd percentile ranking and average benchmark score of 20146 place it in the mid-range segment. In Inside, the GPU's role becomes increasingly important as resolution increases. At 1080p, the GPU can render frames quickly enough to exceed 144 FPS on High settings and reach nearly 300 FPS on Low, indicating that the graphics card has ample headroom at this resolution. The transition to 1440p shows the GPU still performing well, with 211.7 FPS on Low and 103.4 FPS on High. At 4K, the GPU begins to show its limits: High settings drop to 64 FPS, and Ultra settings fall to 63.6 FPS. The RX 7600 XT's 16 GB VRAM is never a concern in this game, as Inside's art style and geometric complexity do not demand large memory allocations. The GPU's nearest rivals include the RTX 2060 SUPER, which it beats by 1.9%, and the RX 7600, which beats it by 0.6%, showing that the XT model offers only a marginal performance uplift in synthetic tests, though the extra VRAM may benefit other titles. The GPU's 190W TDP and dual-slot design are modest, and the 450W suggested PSU indicates this is not a power-hungry configuration.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured frame rates across resolutions and settings reveal a consistent pattern of performance scaling. At 1920x1080, the combo delivers 295.1 FPS on Low, 234.9 FPS on Medium, 144.3 FPS on High, and 137.4 FPS on Ultra. The gap between Low and Medium is 60.2 FPS, while the gap between High and Ultra is only 6.9 FPS, suggesting diminishing returns at the highest quality settings. Moving to 2560x1440, frame rates drop to 211.7 FPS on Low, 167 FPS on Medium, 103.4 FPS on High, and 102.2 FPS on Ultra. The 1440p High to Ultra difference narrows to just 1.2 FPS, indicating that the Ultra preset adds negligible visual load over High at this resolution. At 3840x2160, the numbers become more moderate: 132.6 FPS on Low, 106.4 FPS on Medium, 64 FPS on High, and 63.6 FPS on Ultra. The 4K High and Ultra results are nearly identical, separated by only 0.4 FPS, which strongly suggests a hard performance ceiling imposed by the GPU. Across all resolutions, the Low preset always delivers more than double the frame rate of the Ultra preset, with the ratio being 2.15x at 1080p, 2.07x at 1440p, and 2.08x at 4K. This consistent scaling indicates that the game's settings have a predictable impact on GPU load. The highest recorded frame rate in the dataset is 295.1 FPS at 1080p Low, while the lowest is 63.6 FPS at 4K Ultra, showing a range of 231.5 FPS across the entire test matrix.

Resolution Scaling

The performance drop from 1080p to 4K reveals important information about where the bottleneck lies. At High settings, the average FPS decreases from 144.3 at 1080p to 103.4 at 1440p, a 28.3% reduction, and then to 64 at 4K, a further 38.1% reduction from 1440p. The cumulative drop from 1080p to 4K at High settings is 55.6%. At Low settings, the drop is steeper: 295.1 FPS at 1080p falls to 211.7 FPS at 1440p (28.3% reduction) and then to 132.6 FPS at 4K (37.4% reduction from 1440p), totaling a 55.1% drop from 1080p. At Medium settings, the decline is 167 FPS at 1440p to 106.4 FPS at 4K, a 36.3% reduction, while Ultra settings show a 38.0% reduction from 102.2 FPS at 1440p to 63.6 FPS at 4K. These percentages are remarkably consistent across all settings, hovering around 28% for the 1080p to 1440p step and around 37-38% for the 1440p to 4K step. This uniformity indicates that the GPU is the limiting component at higher resolutions. The fact that the 1080p to 1440p drop (28%) is smaller than the 1440p to 4K drop (37-38%) aligns with the pixel count increase: 1440p has 1.78 times the pixels of 1080p, while 4K has 2.25 times the pixels of 1440p. The measured drops are less than these theoretical pixel ratios, suggesting some level of CPU involvement at lower resolutions. Specifically, at 1080p Low, the 295.1 FPS result is likely partially CPU-bound, as the GPU may not be fully saturated. Once resolution increases and GPU load rises, the frame rates scale more predictably with pixel count. The data shows that for 4K gaming on this combo, High settings at 64 FPS or Medium settings at 106.4 FPS are the viable options, while 1080p and 1440p offer ample headroom for high refresh rate displays at any quality setting.