WebGPU.org

Resource hub for browser support, learning materials, and developer tools.

GPUWeb

Official GitHub repository.

Official WebGPU Explainer

History

Editor's Draft

Published specification

Editor's Draft

API quick reference and documentation

WebGPU.rocks.

MDN

WebGPU API reference.

Google Developers Site

r/WebGPU - Reddit

WebGPU Subreddit.

compute.toys

Compute shader playground (like shadertoy).

Shadeup

Language/website that makes experimenting with WebGPU easier.

Tour of WGSL

A quick introduction to the WebGPU Shading Language.

WebGPU Experts Blog

News and articles about WebGPU.

WebGPU Report

Inspect the WebGPU features and limits available on your device.

GPUWeb

Official GitHub repository.

WebGPU browser support overview

Browser compatibility tables.

Chrome

Enabled on supported Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, Android, and Linux configurations; consult the implementation status for hardware and operating system requirements.

Edge

Chromium-based browser with WebGPU support on supported devices and operating systems.

Firefox

Enabled on Windows and Apple Silicon Macs; other platforms have different rollout schedules.

Firefox Nightly

Preview implementation for testing upcoming support, including Linux and other Mac configurations.

Safari 26 release notes

WebGPU ships enabled on macOS Tahoe 26, iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and visionOS 26.

Safari Technology Preview

Preview browser for testing upcoming implementation changes.

Figma rendering: Powered by WebGPU

Production renderer migration case study covering shaders, batching, and fallbacks (2025).

Compatibility mode and transient attachments

Chrome 146 implementation update covering broader hardware support and attachment optimizations (2026).

Immediates in Chrome 149–150

Browser implementation update on passing small amounts of frequently changed shader data (2026).

WebGPU

Wikipedia article.

Graphics on the web and beyond with WebGPU

By Damien Seguin.

From WebGL to WebGPU in Construct

By Ashley Gullen.

WebGPU texture best practices

By Brandon Jones.

WebGPU Buffer upload best practices

By Brandon Jones.

Efficiently rendering glTF models - A WebGPU Case Study

By Brandon Jones.

WebGPU - All of the cores, none of the canvas

Compute concepts and browser support as of 2022, by Surma.

WebGPU Fundamentals

A set of articles to help learn WebGPU.

PBR in WebGPU: implementation details

By Tomasz Czajecki.

From WebGL to WebGPU

By Google.

WebGPU for Dummies

By Amir Sojoodi.

WebGPU Timestamps

By Amir Sojoodi.

WebAssembly and WebGPU

Browser machine-learning performance enhancements, by Google.

Your first WebGPU app

Google codelab introducing rendering and compute with a Game of Life simulation.

Get started with GPU Compute on the Web

Tutorial on how to use WebGPU for non-graphical applications, by François Beaufort.

From 0 to glTF with WebGPU: Series

(repository) - A tutorial to create a glTF model viewer, by Will Usher.

Learn wgpu

Tutorial and examples on wgpu, a Rust implementation of WebGPU, by @sotrh

LearningWebGPU 教程 (Chinese)

Tutorials using WGSL; the older GLSL-to-SPIR-V branch is deprecated.

Build a compute rasterizer in WebGPU

How to build a complete rasterizer using compute shaders, by Omar Shehata.

Learn WebGPU for native C++ development

A tutorial on WebGPU for Desktop applications using wgpu or Dawn, by @eliemichel.

Learn vgpu

Interactive introduction to the vgpu API with live WGSL editing.

Practical WebGPU Graphics

by Jack Xu

luma.gl

Graphics and compute toolkit with WebGPU and WebGL backends.

webgpu-utils

Helpers for buffer layouts, textures, mipmaps, and bind groups.

Emdawnwebgpu

Dawn-maintained WebGPU bindings for Emscripten applications.

wgpu-native

Native C interface to the Rust wgpu implementation.

Vello

Experimental Rust 2D vector renderer using wgpu and GPU compute.

Babylon.js

Open game and rendering engine.

Three.js

3D library with WebGPURenderer and Three.js Shading Language (TSL) for shader authoring.

PlayCanvas

Web-based game engine with WebGPU support.

PixiJS

2D rendering engine with a WebGPU renderer.

Dawn

Google implementation that powers WebGPU in Chromium, can be used as a standalone package.

wgpu

Cross-platform Rust graphics API based on WebGPU, used by Firefox and native applications.

webgpu-headers

C/C++ headers.

sokol

Simple STB-style cross-platform libraries for C and C++.

RedGPU

JavaScript WebGPU library, by @redcamel.

WebGPU .NET

Browser-focused .NET bindings for the Emscripten WebGPU API.

Deno

JavaScript and TypeScript runtime with WebGPU support through the --unstable-webgpu flag.

RedCube

glTF viewer based on a WebGPU backend.

hwoa-rang-gpu

Micro WebGPU rendering & compute library.

wgsl_reflect

A WebGPU Shading Language parser and reflection library for JavaScript.

WebGPU-C++

A single-file zero-overhead C++ idiomatic wrapper, by @eliemichel.

Use.GPU

Reactive/declarative WebGPU runtime.

GEngine

A basic rendering engine based on WebGPU, by junwei.gu.

Thimbleberry

Reusable WebGPU shaders and support functions.

WebRTX

Experimental ray-tracing layer implemented with WebGPU compute shaders.

React Native WebGPU

React Native implementation of WebGPU using Dawn.

TypeGPU

Type-safe toolkit for GPU resources and shaders authored in TypeScript.

WESL

Community WGSL extensions for import, @if, and more.

WebGpGpu.ts

A WebGPU framework to access compute shaders, browser or server-side, without the steep learning curve.

spark.js

A real-time GPU texture compression library for WebGPU.

zephyr3d

A TypeScript-based 3D rendering engine with WebGPU/WebGL support.

ChartGPU

Interactive charting library using WebGPU for rendering.

vgpu

TypeScript WebGPU library with typed WGSL imports and a shared API for browsers, Node.js, and tests.

RunMat

GPU-accelerated numerical computing runtime for MATLAB-syntax programs, with browser execution through WebAssembly and WebGPU.

Vienna WebGPU Engine

Educational C++ game engine built on WebGPU, with rendering tutorials and native and browser backends.

Points

Generative art library built with WebGPU.

fisheye.js

WebGPU compute library for fisheye image and video correction using WebCodecs.

WebLLM

Browser language-model inference engine accelerated with WebGPU.

ONNX Runtime Web

Browser inference runtime with a WebGPU execution provider for ONNX models.

Transformers.js

JavaScript machine-learning library with WebGPU acceleration through ONNX Runtime.

WebGPU Dev Extension

Browser extension for validation diagnostics, memory tracking, and redundant-state detection.

WebGPUReconstruct

Capture browser commands and replay them through native implementations for graphics debugging and profiling.

webgpu-inspector

Inspection debugger for WebGPU.

wgpu-profiler

GPU timing and profiling utilities for Rust applications using wgpu.

2D

and 3D SDF Primitives - Signed distance field primitives in WGSL, by @munrocket.

WebGPU Samples

A set of samples and demos demonstrating the use of the WebGPU API - Repository

Darkly.art

Open-source photo editor with an advanced WebGPU compositor written in Rust + WebAssembly - Repository

WebGPU first-person exploration of the Sponza Palace

Scene render comparison between WebGL, WebGL 2.0 and WebGPU, by Brandon Jones - Repository

WebGPU Clustered Shading

By Brandon Jones - Repository

WebGPU Metaballs

By Brandon Jones - Repository

Online WGSL Editor

By Takahiro - Repository

Three.js WebGPU examples

A collection of examples from three.js using the WebGPU renderer - Repository

Spookyball

A Halloween-themed, open source Breakout clone, by Brandon Jones - Repository

Babylon.js Playground

By Babylon.js (Note: Select WebGPU in the top right corner).

PlayCanvas WebGPU Demos

By PlayCanvas (Note: Select WebGPU in the top right corner).

WebGPU Particles

Calculate and render particles, by Daniel Toplak - Repository

WebGPU Examples

A few examples of rendering algorithms implemented in WebGPU, by Tarek Sherif - Repository

wgpu examples

Official list of examples from the wgpu library - Repository

Forest WebGPU

A scene built with Babylon.js.

WebGPU-Playground

A playground to experiment with WebGPU, by @06wj - Repository

WebGPU 2D Fluid Simulation

An implementation of "Real-Time Fluid Dynamics for Games" paper, by kishimisu - Repository

WebGPU-Lab

Demos and experiments, focused on compute shaders, by Sebastian Macke - Repository

WebGPU Live Demo Editor

A collection of WebGPU examples by Hepp Maccoy - Repository

Thimbleberry Image Transform Demo

An Image processing app built using Thimbleberry, by mighdoll - Repository

Shadowray Playground

Demo of an experimental ray-tracing layer implemented with WebGPU compute shaders.

Web Stable Diffusion

Early browser image-generation demo using WebGPU, with source code.

Shader Graph WGSL

A node based shader editor, by deepkolos - Repository

WebGPU Memory Model Testing

Memory models testing suite, by Reese Levine et al., UC Santa Cruz - Repository

Marching Cubes WebGPU

Marching cubes implementation, by Conor O'Malley - Repository

WebGPU Path Tracing

A path tracer powered by WebGPU compute shaders, by Fermin Lozano - Repository

WebGPU real-time ray tracer

A real-time ray tracer implementing the ReSTIR algorithm.

Real-Time GPU Texture Compression Demo

Showcases the advantages of real-time texture compression. Compares models using KTX2 textures against AVIF + Spark.

vgpu Shader on Live HTML

Shader demo applying WebGPU effects to HTML content; requires the experimental canvas-draw-element browser flag.

RunMat Browser Sandbox

Browser playground for MATLAB-syntax numerical programs accelerated with WebGPU.

DoG Studio

WebGPU image and video processing demo for configurable Difference-of-Gaussians line art and screentone effects, with source code.

Points examples

Generative art demos covering particles, render passes, and other WebGPU techniques.

WebGL to WebGPU (playlist)

By SketchpunkLabs

WebGPU (playlist)

By Genka

WebGPU Graphics Programming Step-by-Step (playlist)

By Practical Programming with Dr. Xu

Introducing WebGPU: Unlocking modern GPU access for JavaScript

By Google.

A proper look at WebGPU for native games

By Madrigal

GPU for the web community group

W3C Community.

Public GPU

W3C Mailing list.

Matrix WebGPU

General community chat.

Webkit

Firefox

Chromium

A Taste of WebGPU in Firefox

Mozilla.org article by Dzmitry Malyshau.

Point of WebGPU native

By Dzmitry Malyshau.

Implementing WebGPU in Gecko

By Dzmitry Malyshau.

A brief history of graphics on the web and WebGPU

By Ashley Gullen.

wgpu-rs on the web

Rust Graphics Mages.

Compiling Machine Learning to WebAssembly and WebGPU with Apache TVM

By Tianqi Chen & Jared Roesch.

Next-generation 3D Graphics on the web

Webkit.org article by Dean Jackson.

Raw WebGPU

An overview on how to write a WebGPU application, by Alain Galvan.

Basic WebGPU Rendering

Summary of the steps to render a scene, by @ndesmic.

WebGPU for Metal Developers Part 1

and Part 2 - Introduction to WebGPU from Apple's GPU API, Metal, by Warren Moore.

Real-Time Ray-Tracing in WebGPU

Building a Ray tracer using a modified version of WebGPU implementation with Vulkan and DX12 ray tracing extensions, by Felix Maier.

webgpu-devtools

Legacy alpha browser extension.

webgpu-debugger

Legacy alpha debugger.

Dawn RT

A fork of dawn with Ray tracing extensions, by Felix Maier.

wgpu-load-test

A wgpu stress test, by Alexis Andre.

From WebGL to WebGPU: A perspective from Babylon js by David Catuhe

Next-Generation 3D Graphics on the Web (Google I/O 2019)

Talk at Google I/O 19 from Ricardo Cabello (MrDoob).

Building WebGPU with Rust

By Dzmitry Malyshau from Mozilla.

YC Point of WebGPU on native

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