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John Carmack imagines a future where GPUs don't need PCs

The GPU becomes the PC.

Earlier today, legendary video games developer John Carmack, the leader programmer for iconic titles such as Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein 3D, made the case for what one might casually describe as a standalone graphics card. Carmack was lamenting the passing of SLI graphics cards on Twitter/X when he went off on a tangent and shared his hopes that GPUs would one day be capable of operating without a host CPU. A graphics card already has a fair chunk of RAM onboard, even Nvidia models and a modest general processor added to the mix would satisfy all the prerequisites of a classical computer.

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