I would not have thought that these would make a good replacement for a gaming machine. But according to Grok, “The AMD Radeon 780M integrated graphics coprocessor (iGPU) in the Ryzen 9 8945HS (a Hawk Point refresh of the Ryzen 9 7940HS) delivers performance roughly equivalent to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 (laptop variant) or RTX 2050 (entry-level laptop variant) in gaming and synthetic benchmarks. This places it in the low-end discrete GPU tier, suitable for 1080p gaming at medium-low settings in modern titles (often 30–60 FPS with tweaks like AMD FSR upscaling).
So this $600 GMKtec Gaming PC, K11 AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS:
https://www.amazon.com/GMKtec-gaming-pc-desktop-ryzen-9/dp/B0DPGDSM92/
might be good enough for you.
I bought the following mini-PC last night for $338.99 after I found it during a discussion of what might work OK for Microsoft Flight Simulator.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FC292HNC
It will be here on Sunday... I am anxious to see how it performs. The other two recent acquisitions have been used mostly in homelab duty, but they are pretty amazing considering one cost $129 on sale and the other was either $139 or $149. This latest one will be used when I am sitting in my tiny office in the back of my Ford Explorer waiting for my wife when she is doing volunteer work.
Since 2000, I have built all my computers. The lone exception is my current laptop .