Inside

The Intel Core i7-14700F paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti delivers an exceptionally strong showing in Inside, a title that is not graphically demanding by modern standards but rewards high refresh rate displays. The combo ranks 76th out of 1,671 tested combinations, placing it in the top 4.5% of all systems cataloged. This high percentile position is expected given the hardware's raw capability, but the benchmark data reveals that the GPU, rather than the CPU, becomes the primary scaling factor as resolution increases, despite both components being high-end parts.

How This Combo Ranks

The combo's rank of 76 out of 1,671 tested combos places it firmly in the upper echelon of systems for this game. This position reflects the synergy between a high-core-count CPU and a top-tier GPU, resulting in frame rates that exceed the refresh rates of most standard monitors. The data shows this is not merely a functional pairing but one that excels at delivering the maximum possible visual smoothness for a puzzle platformer relying on precise timing and atmospheric movement.

Benchmark results indicate that the system is overkill for achieving playable frame rates in Inside, instead targeting the extreme high end of performance. The ranking reflects the absence of a significant bottleneck at lower resolutions, allowing both the processor and graphics card to operate near their limits. However, the gap between this combo and the top-ranked systems is likely due to the game's simplicity, which can cause even the fastest hardware to hit engine-level limits or frame pacing constraints, rather than a deficiency in this specific configuration.

GPU Role

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is the dominant component in this pairing for Inside. It comes equipped with 16 GB of GDDR7 memory on a 256-bit bus, providing a substantial 896.0 GB/s of bandwidth. For a game released in 2016, this memory capacity and bandwidth are far beyond what is necessary, ensuring that texture streaming and asset loading never become a limiting factor, even at the highest settings and resolutions. The GPU's base clock is 2295 MHz, boosting to 2452 MHz, which contributes to its impressive compute capabilities.

The GPU's raw throughput is substantial, with 43.94 TFLOPS of FP32 performance and a texture rate of 686.6 GTexel/s. In the context of Inside, these specifications mean the GPU can render the game's stylized 2.5D environments with ease, maintaining high frame rates without breaking a sweat. The graphics card scores 32,974 in the Passmark G3D benchmark, placing it in the 87th percentile of all GPUs. Its nearest rival, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080, has an identical average score of 52,085, showing the 5070 Ti is a direct performance peer. The data suggests that the GPU's role is to provide a massive headroom, ensuring that even with the most demanding settings, the frame rate is limited by the CPU's ability to feed the renderer, not the GPU's capacity to draw frames.

CPU Role

The Intel Core i7-14700F provides the computational foundation for this combo, featuring 20 cores and 28 threads. With a base clock of 2.10 GHz and a boost clock of 5.40 GHz, it offers both high multi-threaded throughput and strong single-thread performance. For Inside, a title that primarily relies on a single main game thread for physics and logic, the CPU's single-core performance is critical. Its Cinebench R23 single-core score of 5,003 points indicates it can process game logic rapidly, preventing CPU-side frame stalls that would otherwise cap the frame rate.

The CPU's multi-core capabilities, while not heavily utilized by this game, are still relevant for background tasks and system overhead. Its Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 35,443 points and Geekbench multi-core score of 16,571 points demonstrate its overall processing power. The CPU sits in the 94th percentile of all processors, with an average benchmark score of 54,097. Its nearest rival, the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X, is only 0.6% faster, indicating the i7-14700F is at the very top of the performance hierarchy. In Inside, the CPU's role is to maintain a high minimum frame rate, ensuring that complex scenes with many interactive elements do not cause hitches. The data shows that at 1080p and 1440p, the CPU is sufficient to allow the GPU to reach its maximum output, but at 4K, the GPU's rendering load becomes the primary constraint.

Measured FPS Breakdown

The measured FPS data provides a clear picture of how the combo scales across settings and resolutions. At 1920x1080, the frame rates are exceptionally high. With Low settings, the average FPS is 387.4, which is the highest recorded in the dataset. Moving to Medium settings drops this to 357.1, while High settings yield 283.9 FPS. Interestingly, Ultra settings produce an average of 269.2 FPS, which is lower than High, indicating a significant increase in rendering complexity at the top preset.

At 2560x1440, the pattern shifts. Low settings still produce a very high 346.5 FPS, and Medium follows at 323.8 FPS. High settings drop to 203.9 FPS, while Ultra settings fall to 190.5 FPS. The gap between Medium and High at this resolution is substantial, suggesting that High and Ultra presets introduce effects that are more demanding on the GPU's shading units. At 3840x2160, the GPU becomes the clear limiting factor. Low settings average 254.9 FPS, and Medium settings drop to 204.7 FPS. High and Ultra settings produce 125 and 122.9 FPS, respectively. The difference between High and Ultra at 4K is minimal, showing that the GPU is saturated and the extra settings have a negligible impact on the already high frame rate.

Resolution Scaling

The data shows a predictable decline in performance as resolution increases, but the rate of decline reveals the nature of the bottleneck. From 1080p Low (387.4 FPS) to 4K Low (254.9 FPS), there is a 34.2% reduction in frame rate. This indicates that even at Low settings, the GPU is working progressively harder at higher resolutions. However, the more telling metric is the scaling of the Ultra preset. From 1080p Ultra (269.2 FPS) to 4K Ultra (122.9 FPS), the frame rate drops by 54.3%. This steeper decline at Ultra settings confirms that the GPU is the primary bottleneck at 4K, as the increased pixel count and shading complexity directly impact the rendering time.

The scaling from 1080p to 1440p is modest, with High settings dropping from 283.9 to 203.9 FPS (a 28.2% reduction). This suggests that at 1440p, the system is still partially CPU-bound, as the GPU has enough headroom to handle the extra pixels without causing a proportional frame rate drop. However, the jump from 1440p to 4K is more severe, with High settings dropping from 203.9 to 125 FPS (a 38.7% reduction). This transition marks the point where the GPU's fill rate and memory bandwidth become the limiting factors. The analysis indicates that for maximum frame rates, 1080p and 1440p are the sweet spots for this combo, while 4K is best suited for High or Ultra settings where the GPU can still deliver well above 120 FPS, making it a viable option for high-refresh-rate 4K displays.