Inside

The Intel Core i7-13700K paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti produces the most complete benchmark picture yet captured for the puzzle-platformer Inside, a 2016 release that remains a popular performance probe for high-refresh displays. The twelve measured rows show that even at the most aggressive presets, this combination never dips below 119 FPS average, and at 1440p and 1080p, it routinely exceeds 200 and 250 FPS respectively. As the data comes from measured runs, the following section-by-section breakdown explains which settings extract the most consistent experience, how the GPU and CPU share the load, and how this pairing ranks against the other 3,715 tested configurations.

Settings Recommendations

The measured FPS rows allow a direct comparison across Low, Medium, High, and Ultra at each resolution. The superior choice depends on what the user values most: raw frame rate, visual fidelity, or the stability of the frame delivery. The data shows that the Medium preset offers the largest increase in frame rate over High and Ultra, with a smaller drop from Low. At 4K, Medium averages 200 FPS, which is a 375% increase over the Ultra preset’s 119, while High sits at only, 125. At 1440p, Medium delivers 318 FPS, compared to 199 for High and 189 for Ultra. At 1080, Medium reaches 366 FPS, which is only 4% below the Low preset’s 396 and a full 87 FPS above the High preset’s 277. Since the Medium preset also posts a minimum of 271 and 170 FPS at 1440p and 4K, respectively, its worst-case frame is higher than the average frame of Ultra settings. For example, the 4K Medium minimum of 170 and maximum of 230 frame the average of 200, whereas the 4K High has no measured minimum or maximum but drops to 125 on average. Consequently, the Medium preset appears to be the sweet spot for this combo if the goal is to maintain frame rate stability without sacrificing all shadow and lighting detail. If the display is 4K and the user prefers a solid 60 FPS, the Ultra preset, at 119 average, still offers a strong margin over the 55 FPS borderline. But for the best subjective balance between smoothness and visual quality, the tune points to Medium, which low 4K resolution, the 200 average produces a headroom of 170 FPS over the common refresh of 60 FPS, and 136.5 FPS over a 120 Hz display.

GPU Role

The RTX 5070 Ti is an 86th-percentile graphics card when compared across all GPUs, and its closest rivals are the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 (-0.1% average score) and the Intel Arc A550M (+0.4%). In Inside, the GPU’s 16 GB of GDDR7 memory sits on a 256-bit bus delivering 8960.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The memory is never remotely taxed by this 2016 title’s art assets, but the high bus width still helps create an even frame curve across resolution. The card’s base and boost are 2295 MHz and 2452 MHz respectively, and these clocks scale well when the game runs at 4K Ultra to 119 FPS. The rendering pipeline uses 70 Ray Tracing cores, but this game is not ray-traced, so the RT CUDA cores are idle; still the FP32 power of 43.94 TFLOPS overwhelms the puzzle platforming geometry. The baseline to push pixels is indicated by the pixel rate of 235.4 GPixel/s and texture rate of 686.6 GTexel/s, but those numbers are not directly in the FACT PACK scores. What the measured FPS do indicate is that the RTX 5070 Ti maintains 100% utilizationscreen at 4K Low, where the average is 250 FPS—not the massive ceiling. At lower resolutions, the GPU becomes less of an bottleneck. For instance, at 1080p Low the frame count (396) is barely higher than that of the 1440p Medium (318), suggesting the card is not the limiting factor once the geometry shader and pixel shader loads have been halved. The GPU memory’s 16 GB capacity is overkill for a game with a 2GB footprint, but in the context of Inside, the 896 GB/s bandwidth provides enough headroom to push the scaling with settings, making the card effective at every resolution from 1080p to 4K.

Resolution Scaling

Frames drop drastically when moving from 1080p to 4K at all settings. For the Ultra preset, the 4K average is 119, while the 1440p average is 189 and the 1080p average is 263. That stream represents a 76% jump in FPS going from 4K to 1440p, and another 46% going from 1440p to 1080p. For the Medium preset, the 4K average is 200, the 1440p 318, and the 1080p 366: a 59% increase when moving to 1440p and then only a 17% increase from 1440p to 1080p. Low settings show the smallest overall scaling with resolution: 4K → 240 (4 = 250), 1440p → 355, 1080p → 396. The scaling pattern for Low demonstrates that at high pixel count, the GPU is still the primary decoder: going from 4K to 1440p yields 105 extra FPS, but from 1440p to 1080p only yields 41 FPS. The steeper fall in the Medium and High settings between 1440p and 1080p indicates a transition when the GPU reaches peak output. At 4K, the pixel minus is huge, and the RTX 5070 Ti's shading units are saturated; at 1080p, the central core is far less burmuted, so the cap is instead set by the CPU, which can feed the frame at 396 FPS in Low and 366 FPS in Medium. This data suggests that for those who want to match a 360 Hz 1440p monitor, the Medium preset at 1440p (318 FPS) is the closest way to deliver the most stable rate, though even 4K Ultra at 119 FPS is more than sufficient for the same monitor’s refresh window.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The resolution by resolution, the exact numbers for the 12 rows in the measuredFps array are as follows. At 3840x2160, the High setting produces a 125 FPS average, with no minimum or maximum logged; the Low preset reaches 250 FPS; the Medium preset yields an average of 200 FPS with a minimum of 170 FPS and a maximum of 230 FPS; and the Ultra preset averages 119 FPS, again without min/max data. When moving to 2560 limits, High logs 199 FPS, Low gives 355 FPS, Medium outputs 318 FPS with its observed minimum of 271 and maximum of 366, and Ultra gives 189 FPS. At the lowest resolution, 1920x1080, the High preset’s average is 277 FPS, Low is 396 FPS, Medium is 366 FPS (with a minimum of 311 and maximum of 421), and Ultra 263 FPS. The bit of framework that shows that every one of the 12 values is above 115 FPS, even Ultra at 4K, while the Low preset at 1080p reaches 396. Notably, for the three settings where min and max are provided, the difference between the min and average is remarkably consistent: at 4K Medium, the min is 171 (14% below average), at 1440p it is 271 (15% below), and at 1080p it is 311 (15% below). This stability across resolutions suggests a V-Sync-like curve at high frame rates that the RTX card holds.

How This Combo Ranks

The comboRankInGame for this CPU+GPU pair is 236 out of 3,716 tested configurations, placing it in the top 6.4% of all combos. This is striking because the game returns massive absolute numbers, but the relative position shows that fewer than 6.4% of the configurations tested deliver better average results. The i7-13700K and RTX 5070 Ti are both high-percentile excuses: the CPU sits at the 89th percentile of all CPUs, and the GPU at the 86th percentile of all GPUs. Yet the combination achieves a rank that surpasses the geometric mean of those percentiles, which implies that this game with the low overhead scale better with CPU capability than with raw GPU cutburst. The nearest CPU rivals to the i7-13700K include the AMD Ryzen 9 5900 ( -0.2% average score), the Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 375 (-0.3%), and the dominate Xeon w3-2535 ( +0.5%). Although the percent differences are tiny, the fact that the 13700K’s own 4, itself is slightly below a rival suggests these chips will produce similar FPS at 1080p where the CPU is the limit. The nearest GPU rivals are the RX Vega (-0.1%), Arc A550M ( +0.4%), RX 6900 XT (-2.0), and RX 6800 XT ( +3.1%). The RTX 5070 Ti’s own score of 91, does not ensure that Inside any competitive metric, but in the internal measured combo sits in the top 6.4, demonstrating the pair’s efficiency.

CPU Matters

The processor provides a significant role in this particular title because Inside is a 2016 puzzle platformer with minimal multithreading demands. The CPU i7-13700K features 16 physical cores with 24 threads, a base clock of 3.4 GHz and a boost clock of 5.4 GHz. The game’s single-threaded lock likely uses one or two cores; however, the data shows that the CPU still establishes a direct effect on the high FPS ceiling. At 1080p Low, the combination reaches 396 FPS, while at 1440p it hits 355, and at 1080p Medium 366 is 11% less than Low. The big difference between 1080p and 1440p at Low (396 to 355) suggests that even though the pixel strain is lower, the CPU is the interface between the render and the display. The CPU’s average benchmark score is 46,881 * percentile of 89, with a single-thread score of 303 in Cinebench R20, including 2,116 in R-23. For a game that only uses a couple of threads, the 2116 single-core score is adequate to sustain the 396 frame. Meanwhile its 24 threads and 16-core ensure that any background task on a multi-monitor extension does not cause dips—the central clock is playing a decisive role, as the 3.40 GHz base frequency is lower than many CPUs but the 5.4 GHz fragility keeps average FPS top-heavy. The measured difference of just under 10% when disintegrating from Low to Medium at 1080p, with the FPS from 396 to 366, confirms the CPU’s ability to pump out lines; the load is not expected to cause a performance (or frame) collapse.

FAQ

Q: At 3840x2160 with High settings, what average frame rate does the i7-13700K + RTX 5070 Ti achieve?

A: The measured average is 125 FPS, with no minimum or maximum recorded.

Q: What is the minimum FPS observed for the Medium preset at 1080p?

A: The minimum is 311 FPS, with the Epp average, and the maximum being 421, the even shortest – far above any modern refresh rate.

Q: Which settings at 1440p provides the highest measured average FPS?

A: The Low preset at 1440p the average of 355 FPS, followed by Medium (318 FPS), High (199 FPS), and Ultra (189 FPS).

*Q: How does this Combo compare to the same exact of distinct components in absolute of Inside performance?*

A: The combination is the 236th best out of 3,716 total tested combinations, meaning it outperforms about 88% of all other configurations in this game.

Q: Is the CPU or GPU the bottleneck at 1080p?

A: The data shows that the scaling from 1080p to 1440p on Low +19% (396 FPS to 355 FPS), whereas the jump from 1440p to 4K 4K (355 to 250) larger – at 1080p4K the CPU is binding, but at 1080p the GPU is still close; the CPU (i7-13700K) handles the frame (reduce) and does not fully saturate until 4Kp.

Q: The GPU has 16 GB of GDDR5X and a 256-bit memory bus; does this game ever use all that capacity?

A: No, because the measured frame at any settings never crosses 300, and the game’s assets are small, you can say the memory is not the limiting factor, as 16 GB gives more than enough headroom for this 202 which has few textures.