WebGPU

Definitions

1. A modern browser API for GPU-accelerated graphics and general-purpose GPU computation, succeeding WebGL. Provides lower-level GPU access similar to Vulkan/Metal/DirectX 12, with better performance, compute shaders, and a more ergonomic API. Enables browser-based ML inference, 3D rendering, and scientific computing.

   In plain English: A new browser API that gives web apps direct access to GPU power for 3D graphics and AI computation.

   Example: "We ported the ML inference to WebGPU — the model runs entirely in the browser at near-native GPU speed, no server needed."

Related Terms

• Data Parallelism
• Shader
• Compute Shader
• Fragment Shader
• Pixel Buffer
• Rasterization
• Render Pipeline
• Texture
• Vertex Shader