GPUComputePipeline

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This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The GPUComputePipeline interface of the WebGPU API represents a pipeline that controls the compute shader stage and can be used in a GPUComputePassEncoder.

A GPUComputePipeline object instance can be created using the GPUDevice.createComputePipeline() or GPUDevice.createComputePipelineAsync() methods.

Instance properties

label: A string providing a label that can be used to identify the object, for example in GPUError messages or console warnings.

Instance methods

getBindGroupLayout(): Returns the pipeline's GPUBindGroupLayout object with the given index (i.e., included in the originating GPUDevice.createComputePipeline() or GPUDevice.createComputePipelineAsync() call's pipeline layout).

Examples

Note: The WebGPU samples feature many more examples.

Basic example

Our basic compute demo shows a process of:

Creating a bind group layout with GPUDevice.createBindGroupLayout().
Feeding the bindGroupLayout into GPUDevice.createPipelineLayout() to create a GPUPipelineLayout.
Using that value immediately in a createComputePipeline() call to create a GPUComputePipeline.

Specifications

Specification
WebGPU # gpucomputepipeline

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