A developer explains how he envisions the future. He explains how in the future, all tasks could be taken over by a single graphics card. And it is already the case that graphics cards are being equipped with many features that resemble a proper computer.
Which developer is it? John Carmack is a legendary game developer and is best known as the lead programmer of cult titles like Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein 3D.
Carmack has now stated that he can envision a future in gaming completely without computers. Then, for gaming, you would only need a graphics card. And he points out that gaming and upgrading used to be much simpler. This is reported by the English-language magazine TomsHardware.com.
A whole new graphics card has now been introduced by the manufacturer Intel:
The graphics card could take over all tasks in the future
What does the developer say? Carmack posted on X.com a comprehensive post on how he envisions gaming in the future. He explained that he could imagine that in the near future, the graphics card would take over all the work and even function as a PC:
In his example, you connect your graphics card. On the graphics card itself, a compact operating system, such as a Linux distribution, could already be installed to manage pre-installed applications. Additionally, the graphics card could be connected to a keyboard via the DisplayPort. He specifically states:
It would simply be fun if GPUs generated their own video signal with diagnostic information when you connect power outside of a host system. You could even go further and install a tiny Linux system with BusyBox on the command processor and feedback the keyboard input via the Display-Port when you don’t have a USB port [on the graphics card].
How far-fetched is that? Even now, some components of your PC already work without a processor. And graphics cards are regularly sold with additional features or are experimented with:
- For example, the manufacturer Maxsun recently introduced a graphics card with an additional slot for an M.2 SSD (via tomshardware.com).
- And in the past, experts already installed entire games in the video memory of a graphics card.
- And there are supposedly even graphics cards with built-in screens, so that a display unit would already be integrated.
The developer himself explains that graphics cards were much more accessible in the past. He points out that you used to be able to directly connect graphics cards to each other. All you needed was a flat ribbon cable and the performance of the graphics card would double. And it required neither special software nor specific hardware.
Anyone wanting to get more out of their gaming PC is considering buying a new graphics card. But does it even matter whether I ultimately choose AMD or Nvidia? MyMMO presents the similarities and differences between AMD and Nvidia and explains what you should consider before your next graphics card purchase: How important is it whether I buy AMD or Nvidia for a graphics card?
