When Does Graph RAG Actually Add Value? A Hands-On Experiment

I built four AI retrieval architectures on a laptop and benchmarked them against the same set of documents and questions. Here's what the results taught me about the trade-offs between plain RAG, graph RAG, and simply putting everything into a frontier model's context window.

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I built four AI retrieval architectures on a laptop and benchmarked them against the same set of documents and questions.

Here's what the results taught me about the trade-offs between plain RAG, graph RAG, and simply putting everything into a frontier model's context window.

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I built four AI retrieval architectures on a laptop and benchmarked them against the same set of documents and questions. Here's what the results taught me about the trade-offs between plain RAG, graph RAG, and simply putting everything into a frontier model's context window.

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