Inside

The Intel Core i7-14700F paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER lands at rank 984 out of 1671 tested combinations for Inside. This places the combo in the lower-middle tier of the database, meaning it sits behind a substantial portion of the tested hardware pool while still outranking roughly 41% of recorded configurations. The ranking reflects a pairing of a top-tier modern CPU with a previous-generation mid-range GPU, where the graphics card becomes the primary constraint on overall performance in this title.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo’s rank of 984 out of 1671 tested combinations indicates that this pairing is not competitive with high-end systems in Inside. The RTX 2070 SUPER holds the combo back; its 65th percentile ranking among all GPUs contrasts sharply with the i7-14700F’s 94th percentile standing among all CPUs. This disparity suggests the system is fundamentally imbalanced for this game, with the GPU unable to fully exploit the processor’s capabilities. The data shows a configuration that would be considered mid-range in 2019 when the GPU launched, but the CPU is a 2024 part with significantly more headroom. Consequently, the combo’s overall rank is dragged down by the older graphics solution, making it a system that handles Inside competently at lower resolutions but struggles to maintain high frame rates at 4K with maximum settings.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER features 8 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus, delivering 448.0 GB/s of bandwidth. Its base clock is 1605 MHz with a boost clock of 1770 MHz, and the memory runs at 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective). These specifications define the GPU’s capacity to handle Inside’s rendering load. In benchmark results, the card’s PassMark G3D score of 18169 places it at the 65th percentile of all GPUs, with its nearest rivals being the NVIDIA RTX A400 (0.5% faster), the NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z (0.9% slower), and the AMD Radeon RX 5700 (2.5% slower). The 8 GB VRAM capacity is sufficient for Inside at all tested settings, as the game’s visual complexity is moderate, but the GPU’s compute power—9.062 TFLOPS FP32—becomes the limiting factor at higher resolutions and settings. The card’s 40 RT cores and 320 tensor cores are present but largely irrelevant for this title, which does not utilize ray tracing or DLSS in the benchmark data.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i7-14700F provides 20 cores and 28 threads, with a base clock of 2.10 GHz and a boost clock of 5.40 GHz. This Raptor Lake Refresh part features 33 MB of shared L3 cache and supports both DDR4 and DDR5 memory. Its benchmark results are strong: Cinebench R23 multi-core scores 35443, single-core scores 5003, and PassMark multi-thread scores 41765. The CPU’s 94th percentile ranking among all processors confirms its high-end status. Its nearest rivals include the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X (0.6% faster), the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D (1.1% faster), and the Intel Xeon Phi 7290 (1.2% slower). In Inside, the CPU’s role is minimal at higher resolutions, as the game’s puzzle-platformer nature does not demand intense physics or AI calculations. However, at 1080p with low settings, the i7-14700F’s single-thread performance—evidenced by its 5003 Cinebench R23 single-core score—ensures that the GPU receives frames as fast as it can render them, never becoming the bottleneck.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data reveals a wide performance envelope across resolutions and settings. At 1920x1080, the combo achieves 310.5 FPS on Low settings, 250 FPS on Medium, 155.6 FPS on High, and 147.6 FPS on Ultra. These numbers indicate that at 1080p, the system is entirely GPU-limited at higher settings, while the CPU provides ample headroom for the low and medium presets. Moving to 2560x1440, the figures drop to 223.2 FPS on Low, 181.1 FPS on Medium, 108.5 FPS on High, and 103.7 FPS on Ultra. The scaling from 1080p to 1440p shows a consistent reduction in frame rates, with the Ultra preset dropping by 43.9% and the Low preset dropping by 28.5%. At 3840x2160, the performance falls further: 138.7 FPS on Low, 109.5 FPS on Medium, 68.1 FPS on High, and 67.5 FPS on Ultra. The 4K Ultra result of 67.5 FPS is just below the 68.1 FPS achieved at 4K High, suggesting that the Ultra preset adds minimal visual benefit while costing a small amount of performance. All measured values are average FPS, with no minimum or maximum frame data recorded, but the averages indicate a smoothly playable experience at most settings except for the highest 4K presets.

Resolution Scaling

The FPS drop from 1080p to 4K illustrates the GPU’s dominance as the limiting component. At Low settings, the frame rate falls from 310.5 FPS at 1080p to 223.2 FPS at 1440p (a 28.1% reduction) and then to 138.7 FPS at 4K (a 55.3% reduction from 1080p). This scaling pattern is consistent with a GPU-bound scenario, where the rendering load increases dramatically with pixel count. The High preset shows a steeper decline: 155.6 FPS at 1080p drops to 108.5 FPS at 1440p (30.3% reduction) and then to 68.1 FPS at 4K (56.2% reduction from 1080p). The Ultra preset follows a similar trajectory, going from 147.6 FPS at 1080p to 103.7 FPS at 1440p (29.7% reduction) and finally to 67.5 FPS at 4K (54.3% reduction). These reductions are relatively uniform across settings, indicating that the RTX 2070 SUPER’s 448.0 GB/s memory bandwidth and 9.062 TFLOPS compute capacity are the binding constraints. The CPU’s performance, by contrast, remains constant regardless of resolution, as its 20 cores and 5.40 GHz boost clock are never fully utilized in this game. The data suggests that for 4K gaming on Inside, users would need to lower settings to Medium (109.5 FPS) or Low (138.7 FPS) to achieve smooth frame rates, while 1440p and 1080p present no such challenges, with even Ultra presets exceeding 100 FPS. The combo’s rank of 984 reflects this limitation: it is a capable 1080p and 1440p system for Inside, but it falls short of the high-refresh-rate 4K experience that more powerful GPUs can deliver.