AMD’s newest Ryzen AI Max APUs could be designed primarily to crunch by way of heavy AI workloads, however they’re additionally fairly succesful gaming beasts. Integrated graphics fanatic RandomGaminginHD on YouTube benchmarked a Minisforum MS-S1 Max mini-pc boasting AMD’s flagship Ryzen AI Max 395+ APU, and was astonished on the APU’s efficiency in video games. The chip’s built-in Radeon 8060S iGPU was in a position to present butter-smooth 1080p efficiency in all of the video games he examined.
The video games the YouTuber examined featured Battlefield 6, Borderlands 4, Counter Strike 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Elden Ring, GTA 5 Enhanced Edition, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, Marvel Rivals, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Outer Worlds 2. Graphics settings had been diverse based mostly on every title, so not all video games had been examined at their highest high quality settings. However, all video games had been examined at 1080p.
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Game | Average FPS |
| Battlefield 6 | 86.7 FPS |
| Borderlands 4 | 54.8 FPS |
| Counter Strike 2 | 263.7 FPS |
| Cyberpunk 2077 (rasterized) | 66.8 FPS |
| Cyberpunk 2077 (ray tracing) | 45.4 FPS |
| Elden Ring | 59.6 FPS |
| GTA 5 Enhanced | 76.9 FPS |
| Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 | 89.8 FPS |
| Marvel Rivals | 78.9 FPS |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 82.2 FPS |
In Battlefield 6, on the excessive preset (with HD textures not put in), with FSR set to its “Native AA” mode, the Ryzen AI Max 395+ was in a position to pump out 86 FPS common with 0.1% lows slightly below 60 FPS. Borderlands 4 ran at 54.8 FPS common on the lowest high quality settings with “Native AA” mode set for FSR. That won’t sound like nice efficiency, nevertheless it’s value mentioning that Borderlands 4 will get poor FPS at low settings even on discrete GPU {hardware}.
Counter-Strike 2 ran the perfect at over 250 FPS common at excessive settings with MSAA off. The solely bother the mini-PC had was within the 0.1 lows, which dipped all the best way all the way down to 66 FPS. But this recreation is famend for its performance problems, so the low 0.1% lows are likely related to that rather than being hardware-specific.
Cyberpunk 2077 was the most demanding game the YouTuber tested (including graphics settings tested). At the high preset with high crowds enabled and high textures enabled, the integrated 8060S achieved 67FPS average with 36.4 FPS for the 0.1% low FPS. Switching things up a few notches with the RT Ultra preset turned on and FSR 3 quality mode activated, the game ran at 45.4 FPS average and 27.2 FPS for the 0.1% low frame rate.
The rest of RandomGaminginHD’s testing suite ran well: Elden Ring achieved 60 FPS – with the game’s 60FPS cap, mind you, at the game’s high preset. GTA 5 Enhanced Edition ran at 77 FPS average at the game’s very high RT preset, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 ran at 90FPS average with the high preset and SMAA 2TX enabled. Marvel Rivals ran at 79 FPS average with very targeted settings, featuring the high preset but with global illumination and reflection quality turned off. FSR 3 was also set to “Native AA” mode in this title.
Red Dead Redemption 2 ran at 82 FPS average using Ultra Textures, everything else set to high, TAA on high, Geo LOD set to max, and the grass LOD set to 2 out of 10. Outer Worlds 2 ran at 65 FPS average at medium settings, and TSR set to native resolution.
The Ryzen AI Max series was not made specifically for gaming; it was a platform designed for power users and professionals who need a super-fast computing chip in an ultra-compact mobile form factor. It was also designed to run large language models, especially the 128GB LPDDR5x models, and allegedly has the performance chops to outperform an RTX 4090 by over 2x in tokens per second.
But, all of that high-performance hardware, by nature, turns the APU into a very good gaming processor (albeit an overkill gaming platform in some regards). We’ve already seen impressive benchmark numbers from the 395+’s integrated 8060S iGPU, with performance equivalent to an RTX 4060 in other devices. The 8060S’ performance is a testament to its impressive specs, featuring 40 CUs and 2,560 shader cores – more CUs than a vanilla PlayStation 5, and 16 Zen 5 CPU cores paired to a huge (for a mobile APU) 256-bit interface with fast LPDDR5X memory. RandomGaminginHD’s benchmarks further solidify the 8060S’s impressive performance as an integrated graphics solution.
It is no wonder handheld gaming manufacturers are implementing this APU as a flagship gaming option, including GPD and its Win 5.
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