Do We Still Need GraphRAG? Benchmarking RAG and GraphRAG for Agentic Search Systems
A new benchmark study (RAGSearch) evaluates whether agentic search systems can reduce the need for expensive GraphRAG pipelines by dynamically retrieving information across multiple rounds. Results show agentic search significantly improves standard RAG performance and narrows the gap to GraphRAG, though GraphRAG retains advantages for complex multi-hop reasoning tasks when preprocessing costs are considered.