Holi Graphics Lab

The WebGPU Frontier: Hardware Native Web

WebGPU Hardware Performance

The WebGPU Frontier

We are entering an era where the browser is no longer a document viewer, but a high-performance compute platform. WebGPU is the gateway.

Why WebGPU?

Unlike WebGL, WebGPU gives us low-level access to the GPU hardware, similar to Vulkan or Metal. This means:

  1. Compute Shaders: Parallel processing for non-graphics tasks.
  2. Reduced CPU Overhead: More efficient command buffers.
  3. Native Performance: Pushing 60FPS with complex 3D scenes.

Breaking the Sandbox

Hardware acceleration allows us to run local LLMs, complex cryptography, and real-time physics directly on the user’s silicon, maintaining the “Local-First” philosophy.