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> WebGPU goes live… today, actually. Chrome 113 shipped in the final minutes of me finishing this post

Note that WebGPU in Chrome is not yet available for Linux.

Firefox Nightly has some partial support for Linux so that the first two of these examples work for me: https://webkit.org/demos/webgpu/

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Hi there, member of the Firefox WebGPU team here! We don't consider WebGPU on FF "ready" yet, but you're welcome to follow along with our progress on Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=webgpu-v1

It works with --enable-unsafe-webgpu --enable-features=Vulkan command line arguments. Not very stable though.

Sadly it will likely be years and years still until we get to broad adoption eg to where even old androids can use it

Old Android phones will support WebGPU the day Chrome ships WebGPU support for Android. Dawn, Chrome's WebGPU implementation, works on Vulkan 1.1, which has been required since Android 9.

With various levels of works, and Android drivers don't get updates, so in those cases most likely Chrome will blacklist the drivers and offer no support.

Chrome is updated separately from the Android OS itself, unlike iOS and Safari.

I'm on Chrome on Windows and some of those examples work but most do not.

That's because these demos seem to be out of date (originally those were for WebKit's WebGPU prototype, and then probably updated along the way but not completely).

Try these instead: https://webgpu.github.io/webgpu-samples

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