Inside

FAQ

Q: What is the overall performance tier of the Intel Core i7-13700K + NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 combo in Inside?

A: The combo ranks 1611 out of 1671 tested configurations, placing it in the bottom 4% of all combinations. This is a low-ranking pairing for the game, despite the CPU's strong synthetic scores.

Q: How does the CPU compare to its nearest rivals in synthetic benchmarks?

A: The i7-13700K has an average benchmark score of 47282, which is 0.1% below the Intel Core i7-13700KF (47334) and 0.3% above the AMD EPYC 4364P (47131). It sits 0.4% ahead of the Intel Core i9-12900F (47081) and 0.5% behind the AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 5945 (47527).

Q: What is the GPU's standing relative to other graphics cards?

A: The GTX 1650 holds a percentile rank of 43 among all GPUs, with an average benchmark score of 8713. Its closest rival, the NVIDIA Quadro P2200, scores 8671 (0.5% lower), while the AMD Radeon 550X scores 8749 (0.4% higher).

Q: What is the best playable setting at 1080p?

A: At 1920x1080, the Medium preset delivers 107.4 FPS average, which is well above the 60 FPS threshold. The High preset drops to 67.5 FPS, while Ultra yields 66.9 FPS. Low reaches 132.1 FPS.

Q: How does 4K performance compare to 1080p?

A: At 3840x2160, performance falls dramatically. The Low preset averages 62.6 FPS, but Medium drops to 48.9, High to 29.1, and Ultra to 26.7 FPS. The jump from 1080p Low (132.1 FPS) to 4K Low (62.6 FPS) represents a 52.6% reduction.

Q: Is the GPU or CPU the limiting factor in this game?

A: Synthetic data shows the CPU scores in the 93rd percentile among all CPUs, while the GPU sits in the 43rd percentile. Given the GPU's much lower relative standing and the steep FPS drops at higher resolutions, the GTX 1650 is clearly the bottleneck.

Settings Recommendations

The data favors the Low preset for the most responsive experience, with a 132.1 FPS average at 1080p. This is 23% faster than Medium (107.4 FPS) and nearly double the High preset's 67.5 FPS. For a puzzle platformer where frame pacing matters less than consistency, Low provides the largest headroom.

Medium is the balanced choice at 1080p, delivering 107.4 FPS while presumably offering improved visual fidelity over Low. The gap from Medium to High is steep — a 39.9 FPS drop — suggesting that High settings trigger a significant increase in GPU workload. Ultra at 66.9 FPS barely differs from High (67.5 FPS), indicating diminishing returns beyond Medium.

At 1440p, Medium remains viable at 74.6 FPS, though Low is safer at 95.3 FPS. High drops to 50.2 FPS, which may be playable but is close to the 60 FPS mark. Ultra at 47.5 FPS is borderline.

At 4K, only Low is recommended, with 62.6 FPS. Medium falls to 48.9 FPS, and High (29.1) and Ultra (26.7) are not viable for smooth gameplay. The recommendation is clear: use Low for 4K, Medium for 1440p and 1080p, unless maximum visual quality is prioritized over frame rate.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS scaling from 1080p to 4K reveals a GPU-bound scenario. At Low settings, the average FPS drops from 132.1 at 1080p to 95.3 at 1440p (a 27.9% reduction) and then to 62.6 at 4K (a 52.6% reduction from 1080p). This pattern is consistent with a graphics card that has limited memory bandwidth — the GTX 1650's 128.1 GB/s is a known constraint.

At Medium settings, the scaling is similar: 107.4 FPS at 1080p falls to 74.6 at 1440p (30.5% drop) and 48.9 at 4K (54.5% drop). The High preset shows a 50.2 FPS at 1440p versus 67.5 at 1080p (25.6% drop), then 29.1 at 4K (56.9% drop). Ultra follows the same trend: 66.9 to 47.5 (28.9% drop) to 26.7 (60.1% drop).

The consistent 25-30% reduction from 1080p to 1440p, followed by another 25-30% drop to 4K, indicates that the GPU's fill rate and pixel throughput are the limiting factors. The CPU's high scores (93rd percentile) cannot compensate for the GPU's 43rd percentile standing. At 4K, even Low settings push the GTX 1650 to its limits, with only 62.6 FPS average.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo's rank of 1611 out of 1671 places it in the bottom 3.6% of all tested combinations. This is a poor showing, driven almost entirely by the GPU. The i7-13700K is a top-tier processor — its 93rd percentile rank among all CPUs and 47282 average benchmark score put it in the upper echelon — but the GTX 1650's 43rd percentile and 8713 average score drag the pairing down.

Compared to the nearest rival combos, the CPU's deltaPct values are minimal: 0.1% behind the i7-13700KF, 0.3% ahead of the EPYC 4364P, 0.4% ahead of the i9-12900F, and 0.5% behind the Ryzen 9 PRO 5945. These differences are negligible in real-world gaming. The GPU's rivals show similar tight margins — the Quadro P2200 is 0.5% slower, the Radeon 550X is 0.4% faster.

The data suggests that swapping the CPU for any of its nearest rivals would not meaningfully change the rank. What would change the rank is a GPU upgrade, as the GTX 1650 is clearly the weakest link. The fact that this combo ranks so low despite a high-end CPU underscores how heavily Inside's performance depends on the graphics card.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 is a Turing-architecture card built on a 12 nm process with 4,700 million transistors on a 200 mm² die. It features 4 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 128-bit bus, yielding 128.1 GB/s of bandwidth. The base clock is 1485 MHz with a boost clock of 1665 MHz.

These specifications explain the measured FPS results. The 4 GB VRAM is sufficient for a puzzle platformer like Inside, but the 128-bit memory bus and 128.1 GB/s bandwidth become a bottleneck at higher resolutions. The GPU's pixel rate of 53.28 GPixel/s and texture rate of 93.24 GTexel/s are modest by modern standards, which is why 4K Ultra yields just 26.7 FPS.

The GPU's FP32 performance of 2.984 TFLOPS is low compared to contemporary cards, and its benchmark scores confirm this: 7880 in Passmark G3D and 3048 in Passmark GPU Compute. The 43rd percentile rank places it below average. The nearest rival data shows it trading blows with the Quadro P2200 (8671) and Radeon 550X (8749), but these are all entry-level performers.

At 1080p Low, the GPU can sustain 132.1 FPS, but this drops to 107.4 at Medium and 67.5 at High. The scaling from Low to Ultra at 1080p shows a 49.4% performance loss, which is steep. At 4K, the Low preset's 62.6 FPS is the only playable option, and Ultra's 26.7 FPS is a slideshow. The GPU's 75 W TDP and lack of power connectors indicate its entry-level positioning, which the data confirms.

Measured FPS Breakdown

At 1920x1080, the measured averages are: Low 132.1 FPS, Medium 107.4 FPS, High 67.5 FPS, and Ultra 66.9 FPS. The jump from Low to Medium costs 24.7 FPS (18.7%), while Medium to High costs 39.9 FPS (37.2%). High to Ultra is nearly flat, with just 0.6 FPS difference, suggesting that Ultra adds little graphical load over High.

At 2560x1440, the averages are: Low 95.3 FPS, Medium 74.6 FPS, High 50.2 FPS, and Ultra 47.5 FPS. The Low-to-Medium gap is 20.7 FPS (21.7%), and Medium-to-High is 24.4 FPS (32.7%). The High-to-Ultra gap remains small at 2.7 FPS.

At 3840x2160, the averages are: Low 62.6 FPS, Medium 48.9 FPS, High 29.1 FPS, and Ultra 26.7 FPS. The Low-to-Medium drop is 13.7 FPS (21.9%), Medium-to-High is 19.8 FPS (40.5%), and High-to-Ultra is 2.4 FPS.

The pattern across all resolutions is consistent: the largest performance hit occurs between Medium and High settings, while Ultra offers marginal gains over High. This suggests that the High preset enables a specific rendering feature that disproportionately taxes the GTX 1650. For optimal frame rates, staying at Medium or below is advised.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i7-13700K is a 16-core, 24-thread processor based on Raptor Lake architecture, built on a 10 nm process. It has a base clock of 3.40 GHz and a boost clock of 5.40 GHz, with 30 MB of shared L3 cache and 2 MB of L2 cache per core. The CPU supports DDR4 and DDR5 memory and features UHD Graphics 770.

Synthetic benchmarks show exceptional performance: Cinebench R23 multi-core scores 39000, single-core 5505; Geekbench multi-core 17731, single-core 2850; Passmark multi-thread 45887, single-thread 4333. The CPU's 93rd percentile rank among all CPUs confirms its high-end status.

In Inside, however, the CPU's role is secondary. The game is a 2D puzzle platformer that does not heavily utilize multi-threading. The measured FPS data shows that performance scales almost entirely with GPU settings and resolution, not CPU capability. At 1080p Low, the CPU can feed the GPU enough frames to hit 132.1 FPS, but this is not a CPU-limited scenario — it's the GPU's maximum output.

The CPU's nearest rivals — the i7-13700KF, EPYC 4364P, i9-12900F, and Ryzen 9 PRO 5945 — all score within 0.5% of the i7-13700K's average. This indicates that any of these processors would produce nearly identical FPS in Inside. The bottleneck is unequivocally the GTX 1650, as evidenced by the combo's 1611 rank out of 1671, which cannot be improved by CPU selection alone.