@decryption@aus.social gaming isn’t my primary use for GPU but it’s not not a use 🙃 a 40xx or even 30xx or equivalent would be fine, but newer discrete GPUs are more likely to have GDDR6 & don’t have to share system memory (and I assume have a separate bus for GPU mem bandwidth) so discrete GPU is my preference if possible. I know I’m pushing up against the laws of physics, and the “usual” way to “solve” that is to throw a truckload of 💰💰💰 at the problem, but I can’t bring myself to drop a bananapants amount of money on a laptop (most of my laptops were secondhand when I got them, apart from my chonky Linux beast) thx for the suggestion 💕 I have been considering laptops with higher-spec integrated graphics & looking at benchmark comparisons, so it’s on my radar(ish) my mental benchmark is “can I get something in a light 14” laptop that outperforms my chonky Linux laptop (2017 System76 Oryx Pro 3 that has 32GB DDR4, a 1070, 2x 500GB M.2 SATA SSDs & a 2TB 2.5” HDD)”?^ 🤔 that’s my current workhorse when I need some grunt, but it’s heavy enough that I use it less often than my old MacBook Pro 13” (so, no GPU) that’s frequently underpowered but much more pleasant to use on the couch & can actually last more than 1.5 hours on battery when I’m using it out of the house / office 💁‍♀️ I’m in the process of ditching macOS as much as I can on my personal machines (I’ve long since ditched Windows), but I’ll likely keep a smallish macOS partition on the old MacBook Pro for syncing stuff to & backing up my iPhone until I find some solid, non-clunky solutions to that problem as well (no, I’m not moving to Android for my primary phone – I have a spare Android phone that I used to use for work but… eugh 😜)       ^ and doesn’t cost $5k+ 🙅‍♀️