This results in buttery smooth scrolling for files with millions of lines, instant screen updates when typing, and significantly reduced battery consumption on laptops.
Users can toggle or debug this feature via the Preferences.sublime-settings file: sublime text gpu accelerated rendering
: It specifically improves performance on high-DPI screens where software rendering often fails to keep up. How to Enable GPU Acceleration This results in buttery smooth scrolling for files
This feature offloads the heavy lifting of drawing the user interface and text buffers from the CPU to the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). Unlike traditional software rendering, which processes pixels sequentially via the CPU, Sublime Text now utilizes modern low-level graphics APIs to render the entire workspace in parallel. Unlike traditional software rendering
Once the system requirements are met, users can enable GPU accelerated rendering in Sublime Text by following these steps:
Sublime Text's GPU accelerated rendering is built on top of the Skia graphics library, which provides a high-performance, hardware-accelerated rendering engine. When Sublime Text is run with GPU acceleration enabled, the editor uses the GPU to render the following elements: