We benchmarked 18 RAG pipelines against an agent loop on Google's FRAMES. The best pipeline hit 78.9%. The agent loop hit 92.7%.
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SummaryA community benchmark tested 18 RAG pipeline configurations against an agent loop on Google's FRAMES dataset. The best RAG pipeline reached 78.9% accuracy, while the agent loop reached 92.7%, a roughly 14-point gap.
Why it mattersHead-to-head numbers across many RAG variants versus an agent architecture on a public benchmark, directly relevant when choosing between retrieval pipelines and agentic loops.
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