WebGPU
Specification for the WebGPU API and WGSL shading language, enabling high-performance GPU access for web applications.
What is WebGPU?
WebGPU is a modern web API specification that provides low-level access to GPU hardware for high-performance graphics rendering and general-purpose computing. It's designed as a successor to WebGL, offering improved performance, better safety guarantees, and more flexible GPU programming capabilities directly in web browsers. The specification includes both the WebGPU API and the WebGPU Shading Language (WGSL) for writing GPU shaders.
Browser engine developers, graphics engineers, 3D software developers, and web developers building advanced graphics applications, games, scientific visualizations, or GPU-accelerated computations that run in web browsers.
Developers choose WebGPU for its modern design that provides closer-to-metal GPU access than WebGL, better performance through reduced driver overhead, improved safety features, and a standardized shading language (WGSL) that works across different platforms and hardware vendors.
Overview
Where the GPU for the Web work happens!
Use Cases
Best For
- Building high-performance 3D games and interactive experiences for the web
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