Instead of paying the render cost of Global Illumination, place a plane facing the camera with a Standard Surface material set to Thin Walled and cranked Subsurface Scattering. Dim a light behind it and increase its radius to 20 — the plane acts like translucent paper, mimicking a glowing bulb believably and cheaply.
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