I'm taking the liberty of starting a new thread for Arduino projects, as I couldn't find one dedicated to this, and figure that there may be a few people around here who do this sort of thing. If ...

The display in question uses the ILI9341 LCD driver, found in the Adafruit library, and an optimized 3D graphics driver.

Even when using a standard Arduino, there are still speed and efficiency gains to be made when driving a TFT. [Xark] recently released his re-mix of the Adafruit GFX library and LCD drivers.