To be honest, once Arm and RISC-V becomes mainstream, I'd probably play in low settings with a iGPU - matter of fact, I've been eyeing on the 780M for the same reason. GPU is cool, sure, but SoC and SoM is much convinient.
Small portable home computing devices that you take with you and connect to a screen/ peripherals.
Local GPU and AI power servers in your garage or rented as an online servers.
I have been envisioning this for a while. My Desktop is in a state of “finished” i may build one more “gaming pc” after this but then i am hoping the future is ready.
I also have a similar vision. A miniature NAS/desktop, from where I can ssh to a light-weight, battery efficient laptop. And a modular, chonky Thinkpad-like cyberdeck with good battery, for on-the-move hacking. Localized compute unit, with the option to house multiple upgradable, System-on-a-Module may be a part of the modern smart-city home as a default , I'd guess?
this is part of the reason i want modular laptops.
how come we could come up with standards to install dgpus in the 70s but can't now? give me a convenient soc with possibility of upgrading later if i want to, framework style.
You should check out Jeff Geerling, he's made a video on SoM-based cluster computing. I'd love to see a future for a cluster computer with the capability to play games.
Having spent five years on Linux with an nVidia card on my previous laptop, I can safely say my thrills are exactly nil. Hearing the words "nVidia Optimus" will legit put me in a bad mood.