Technology

WebGPU

WebGPU is the modern JavaScript API providing high-performance 3D graphics and general-purpose GPU compute (GPGPU) access for the web platform.

WebGPU is the successor to WebGL: it exposes a low-level, explicit API for leveraging the system’s Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) for both rendering and computation. The API design mirrors modern native graphics frameworks (Vulkan, Metal, Direct3D 12), ensuring better performance and compatibility across diverse hardware. It introduces first-class support for compute shaders, enabling high-speed parallel processing for tasks like machine learning and physics simulations directly in the browser. All shader code is written in the custom WebGPU Shading Language (WGSL), which is validated and compiled for security and efficiency.