Google has released a new beta for Chrome 113 that makes WebGPU available by default in the company’s proprietary browser for the first time. WebGPU is a.
The big picture: WebGL brought GPU-accelerated 3D graphics to the web. Now, a new API is being explicitly designed to take web graphics to the next level, with advanced features taken directly from native 3D standards available on the most popular desktop operating systems.
Google has released a new beta for Chrome 113 that makes WebGPU available by default in the company’s proprietary browser for the first time. WebGPU is a new API written in JavaScript that aims to provide « modern 3D graphics and computation capabilities » to web browsers.
Google says WebGPU offers « significant benefits » in 3D and heavy parallel computing tasks including a greatly reduced JavaScript workload for the same graphics and more than a 3x improvement in machine learning model inferences.
