Some older terminals are slow enough to rate limit text output from things like streaming logs. I don't think that's specifically a GPU versus CPU, though. I u

Some older terminals are slow enough to rate limit text output from things like streaming logs. I don't think that's specifically a GPU versus CPU, though. I use Terminology, from the Enlightenment WM team. It's fast, supports unicode, is easily configurable, and behaves how I, personally, prefer. But if you don't really have a preference, I don't think fancy different terminals are going to be that important.