[trimental]

Thanks for the question. Markdown files are basically html files with syntax sugar, and a lot of markdown files directly use html. So to properly render most files you need a basic html renderer at minimum. Although yes, you don't need the other features of a browser but typically most markdown renderers are either web-based (GitHub) or electron based (VS Code).

GPU rendering helps for scaling images, rendering text and drawing other primitives efficiently. It frees up CPU time, and can redraw many times faster in scrolls and resizes. This is why most browsers use the GPU when most web content is 2D. GPU's don't really crunch huge numbers but instead utilise parallelisation.

[anaganisk]

Gotchu thanks for the reply!