WebGPU Explained: The Browser’s New Graphics and Compute Engine

Short summary

WebGPU is a new W3C standard for accessing GPU acceleration from web applications, offering explicit pipelines, compute shaders, and the WGSL shader language. Unlike WebGL's global state machine model, WebGPU uses modern GPU API concepts with command encoding and explicit resource bindings, enabling both graphics rendering and general-purpose parallel computation in the browser.

• •WebGPU is a new W3C standard replacing WebGL's OpenGL ES model with modern GPU API concepts
• •Introduces WGSL shader language, explicit pipelines, and first-class compute shaders
• •Enables both graphics rendering and general-purpose parallel computation in browsers

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