Access modern GPU features with WebGPU
WebGPU is a new web API that exposes modern computer graphics capabilities, specifically Direct3D 12, Metal, and Vulkan, for performing rendering and computation operations on a graphics processing unit (GPU).
This goal is similar to the WebGL family of APIs, but WebGPU enables access to more advanced features of GPUs. Whereas WebGL is mostly for drawing images but can be repurposed with great effort for other kinds of computations, WebGPU provides first-class support for performing general computations on the GPU.
After four years of development in the W3C's "GPU for the Web" Community Group, WebGPU is now ready for developers to try in Chrome and give feedback on the API and the shading language.
"After a decade of WebGL bringing 3D graphics to the web and enabling all sorts of new experiences, it's now time to upgrade the stack and help web developers take full advantage of modern graphics cards. WebGPU arrives just in time!"
WebGPU gets us closer to the metal and it also unlocks the power of compute shader for Web developers. New 3D experiences can be built today on Babylon.js Playground.
