Hardware accelerated caret rendering

A computing system comprising:

• a graphics processing unit configured to provide dedicated graphics processing functionality for the computing system;
• and
• a caret renderer configured to direct the graphics processing unit to produce a hardware accelerated caret that emulates a system caret available as native functionality of an operating system of the computing device.

One or more computer-readable storage media comprising instructions that, when executed via a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations to produce a hardware accelerated caret for the computing device including:

• generating a hardware accelerated caret via a dedicated graphics processing unit (GPU) of a computing device, the hardware accelerated caret configured by the GPU to emulate behavior of a system caret available as native functionality of an operating system of the computing device;
• and
• rendering a user interface for an application of the computing device to present the hardware accelerated caret in coordination with other hardware accelerated graphics produced via the graphics processing unit.