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I've played around with the pi and pygame.

Is there a way this will help with accelerated pygame graphics?

(last I tried, all blits were in software)

Pygame still has no GPU/3d API support. But it can leverage NumPy arrays IIRC so that's accelerated (compared to pure Python code at least).

At some point we'll have to migrate to new terms for "in hardware" for offloaded operations since we are no longer using fixed function hardware :)

Yes, pygame can use the Pi graphics hardware. It supports vulkan, OpenGL, OpenGL ES, and some other modes through SDL2.

Note, the CPUs on the Pi are faster than the gfx hardware, and gfx is usually memory bandwidth limited.