A practical introduction to WebGPU, WGSL, render pipelines, compute shaders, and the future of high-performance graphics on the web.

Your browser can stream 4K video, run a complete code editor, render complex 3D scenes, and host multiplayer games.

But for years, web developers accessed the GPU through an API based on an older generation of graphics programming.

WebGPU changes that contract.

WebGPU is not simply a faster version of WebGL.