GPURenderPipeline

Limited availability

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

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

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 GPURenderPipeline interface of the WebGPU API represents a pipeline that controls the vertex and fragment shader stages and can be used in a GPURenderPassEncoder or GPURenderBundleEncoder.

A GPURenderPipeline object instance can be created using the GPUDevice.createRenderPipeline() or GPUDevice.createRenderPipelineAsync() 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.createRenderPipeline() or GPUDevice.createRenderPipelineAsync() call's pipeline layout).

Examples

Note: The WebGPU samples feature many more examples.

Basic example

Our basic render demo provides an example of the construction of a valid render pipeline descriptor object, which is then used to create a GPURenderPipeline via a createRenderPipeline() call.

js
// ...

const vertexBuffers = [
  {
    attributes: [
      {
        shaderLocation: 0, // position
        offset: 0,
        format: "float32x4",
      },
      {
        shaderLocation: 1, // color
        offset: 16,
        format: "float32x4",
      },
    ],
    arrayStride: 32,
    stepMode: "vertex",
  },
];

const pipelineDescriptor = {
  vertex: {
    module: shaderModule,
    entryPoint: "vertex_main",
    buffers: vertexBuffers,
  },
  fragment: {
    module: shaderModule,
    entryPoint: "fragment_main",
    targets: [
      {
        format: navigator.gpu.getPreferredCanvasFormat(),
      },
    ],
  },
  primitive: {
    topology: "triangle-list",
  },
  layout: "auto",
};

const renderPipeline = device.createRenderPipeline(pipelineDescriptor);

// ...

Specifications

Specification
WebGPU
# gpurenderpipeline

Browser compatibility

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See also