1982451 - WebGPU: Implement `texture-formats-tier1` and `texture-formats-tier2` device features

Status: NEW

(Core :: Graphics: WebGPU, enhancement, P1)

Comment 1

[Erich Gubler [:ErichDonGubler] (he/him)]

@MikhailGorobets has said on GitHub (comment link):

… I’m not a Rust programmer and I’m not very familiar with the wgpu ecosystem, but as far as I understand, Firefox uses wgpu as the core of its WebGPU implementation. My WebGPU web app works in Chrome https://grenzwert.net, but unfortunately it doesn’t work in Firefox because texture-formats-tier1 isn’t available there. I can’t work around this — the application requires this feature.

Comment 2

[Erich Gubler [:ErichDonGubler] (he/him)]

A contributor to Three.js named Renaud has noted publicly some excitement to use this (link):

Three.js Blocks is getting the fastest Fluid Simulation ever built for the Web!

Powered by WebGPU texture-formats-tier2 with RGBA storage textures and read-write access (coming in Chrome 142 🚀).

And it’s just one simple node you can drop anywhere in your scene or Postprocess!

Comment 3

[James Dolan]

Just giving my upvote, these texture formats are nearly universally supported with only Firefox as an outlier https://web3dsurvey.com/webgpu/features/texture-formats-tier1 and are quite critical to compute intensive rendering pipelines.