Google has released the first version of its WebGPU API that will allow the Chrome web browser to use a PC's graphics card to improve the performance and graphical fidelity of web-based video games.
The new API is the result of a six-year development cycle worked on by the GPU for the Web Community Group, to which many tech giants such as Mozilla, Apple, and Microsoft have contributed.
As a successor to the existing WebGL model, WebGPU is said to reduce the browser's "JavaScript workload" as well as triple the performance of "machine learning model inferences".
According to "specialized sites", the ultimate goal of this effort is to make browser games display "very accurate scenes even with the different objects in them", especially since it is now possible to obtain "many modern display technologies" in browsers. Previously existing titles, such as those in 3D JavaScript libraries such as Babylon.js, will also see improvement.
With the exception of games, productivity apps can use the new API to "offload computational operations to the CPU". Teleconferencing platforms, such as: (Google Meet), can take advantage of enhanced machine learning to work very efficiently.
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