Awesome WebGPU

Lovely curated list of WebGPU ressources, libraries and tools.

WebGPU is a work in progress Web standard from W3C for modern 3D and GPU computing. Its purpose is to get the best performances on recent GPUs from desktop to mobile. Unlike WebGL, WebGPU is not a port of an existing native API. It borrows concepts from Metal, Vulkan and Direct3D12.

Contents

• Websites
• Browser support
• Articles
• Tutorials
• Demos
• Libraries
• Videos
• Presentations
• Community
• Bug reporting
• Contribute
• License

Websites

GPU for the Web Community Group - Official website

GPUWeb - Offical Github repository

Editor’s Draft, 6 August 2020 - Official Specifications

Firefox Nightly can run WebGPU compute demo

WebGPU shading language - WGSL

Browser support

Support is actually available as an experimental feature on Chrome Canary, Edge Canary, Firefox Nightly and Safari Technology Preview.

• Implementation status - From Official W3C Group
• Chrome Platform Status - From Chrome dev
• WebGPU and WSL in Safari - From Webkit website
• WebGPU on iOS - Don't work on my iPhone6+
• Servo MVP - WebGPU MVP

Articles

• Graphics on the web and beyond with WebGPU - by Damien Seguin @dmnsgn
• From 0 to glTF with WebGPU by @_wusher
• Get started with GPU Compute on the Web
• Implementing WebGPU in Gecko
• A Taste of WebGPU in Firefox
• From WebGL to WebGPU in Construct
• wgpu-rs on the web
• Compiling Machine Learning to WASM and WebGPU with Apache TVM
• A brief history of graphics on the web and WebGPU
• Point of WebGPU native
• The WebAssembly App Gap - Why WebAssembly + WebGPU is hot

Tutorials

• LearningWebGPU 教程 (Chinese) - by hjlld
• Raw WebGPU
• WebGPU training - Not finished
• Real-Time Ray-Tracing in WebGPU

Libraries

• Babylon.js - Experimental support
• Three.js - Experimental support
• Dawn - Google implementation
• Gfx-rs/wgpu - Mozilla implementation
• Webcore module WebGPU - Webkit / Safari
• bgfx - WebGPU/Dawn experimental
• webgpu-headers - C/C++ headers
• sokol - WebGPU Backend TODO
• WebGPU for Node - Based on Dawn
• RedGPU - By @redcamel
• WebGPU .NET
• Deno roadmap GPU APIs (WebGPU) to support ML apps

Demos

If they are not from Apple, demos will work only on Chrome. Firefox implementation is not complete.

• Calculate and render particles with WebGPU by Daniel Toplak
• An online calculator - Using WebGPU on remote browser (via WebRTC)
• Safari Webkit demos
• WebGPU Samples - by Austin Eng (Google)
• WebGPU study - by Redcamel
• Small examples of SPIR-V compatible WebGPU usage - by Tarek Sherif
• Three.js WebGPURenderer - by Takahiro
• WebGPU point cloud - by Markus Schütz
• Forest WebGPU - by Babylon.js
• WebGPU-Playground - by @06wj
• webgpu examples - examples for node-webgpu
• Dawn RT - Ray tracing extension for Dawn/WebGPU
• WebGPU Experiments - By @_wusher
• wgpu-load-test - by @MacTuitui

Videos

• From WebGL to WebGPU: A perspective from Babylon js by David Catuhe
• Next-Generation 3D Graphics on the Web (Google I/O ’19)
• 000 : INTRO : WebGL 2 WebGPU
• 001 : A Triangle : WebGL 2 WebGPU

Presentations

• Google Tint - Proposal for textual shader language
• Building WebGPU with Rust - By Kvark from Mozilla

Community

• Public GPU - W3C Mailing list
• Gitter chat - by Mozilla - DEPRECATED
• Matrix WebGPU - Unofficial channel
• YC Point of WebGPU on native - discussion regarding this article
• Possibility of SPIR-V and/or GLSL as a WebGPU extension? - WGSL in debate

Bug reporting

• Webkit
• Firefox
• Chromium

Contribute

Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.

License

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