WebGPU

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Feedback and comments on this specification are welcome. GitHub Issues are preferred for discussion on this specification. Alternatively, you can send comments to the GPU for the Web Working Group’s mailing-list, public-gpu@w3.org (archives). This draft highlights some of the pending issues that are still to be discussed in the working group. No decision has been taken on the outcome of these issues including whether they are valid.

This document was published by the GPU for the Web Working Group as an Editor’s Draft.

The group expects to demonstrate implementation of each feature in at least two deployed browsers on top of modern GPU system APIs. The test suite will be used to build an implementation report.

This document is maintained and updated at any time. Some parts of this document are work in progress.

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This document is governed by the 18 August 2025 W3C Process Document.