Well, you are looking at the description of the software renderer. Qt Quick is hardware accelerated (OpenGL) by default. A subset of it is supported by the soft

Well, you are looking at the description of the software renderer. Qt Quick is hardware accelerated (OpenGL) by default. A subset of it is supported by the software renderer. With hardware acceleration, performance is generally great. Actual rendering overview (rather technical): http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtquick-visualcanvas-scenegraph.html http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtquick-visualcanvas-scenegraph.html Cool blog post about performance improvement through draw call batching: http://blog.qt.io/blog/2013/09/02/new-scene-graph-renderer/ http://blog.qt.io/blog/2013/09/02/new-scene-graph-renderer/