AMD’s latest Ryzen AI Max APUs might be designed primarily to crunch through heavy AI workloads, but they are also quite capable gaming beasts. Integrated graphics enthusiast RandomGaminginHD on YouTube benchmarked a Minisforum MS-S1 Max mini-pc boasting AMD’s flagship Ryzen AI Max 395+ APU, and was astonished at the APU’s performance in games. The chip’s integrated Radeon 8060S iGPU was able to provide butter-smooth 1080p performance in all the games he tested.
The games the YouTuber tested 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 were varied based on each title, so not all games were tested at their highest quality settings. However, all games were tested at 1080p.
Gaming With The Fastest Integrated Graphics Yet – The Radeon 8060S (ft. Minisforum MS-S1 MAX) – YouTube
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Game |
Average FPS |
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Battlefield 6 |
86.7 FPS |
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Borderlands 4 |
54.8 FPS |
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Counter Strike 2 |
263.7 FPS |
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Cyberpunk 2077 (rasterized) |
66.8 FPS |
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Cyberpunk 2077 (ray tracing) |
45.4 FPS |
|
Elden Ring |
59.6 FPS |
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GTA 5 Enhanced |
76.9 FPS |
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Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 |
89.8 FPS |
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Marvel Rivals |
78.9 FPS |
|
Red Dead Redemption 2 |
82.2 FPS |
In Battlefield 6, at the high preset (with HD textures not installed), with FSR set to its “Native AA” mode, the Ryzen AI Max 395+ was able to pump out 86 FPS average with 0.1% lows just under 60 FPS. Borderlands 4 ran at 54.8 FPS average at the lowest quality settings with “Native AA” mode set for FSR. That might not sound like great performance, but it’s worth mentioning that Borderlands 4 gets poor FPS at low settings even on discrete GPU hardware.
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Counter-Strike 2 ran the best at over 250 FPS average at high settings with MSAA off. The only trouble the mini-PC had was in the 0.1 lows, which dipped all the way down to 66 FPS. But this game is renowned for its performance problems, so the low 0.1% lows are likely related to that rather than being hardware-specific.