Re:I want to talk about WebGPU
by Conscat on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @05:21PM
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If this is something users actually care about, wouldn't Vulkan AI be a big deal? It has way more features for AI than WebGPU will likely ever have, and it's widely available today.
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The blog spends a lot of time pointing out that it is not, in fact, widely available today in any practical sense.
It spends a little time on the topic, and imho doesn't argue the point very well.
It points out that MoltenVK doesn't work very well, and I agree, although I think it's questionable whether the Molten-compatible subset is worse than WebGPU or not.
It says that Vulkan has driver issues on Linuxes, but provides no citations for that, and in my experiences, Vulkan drivers and developer tools have been the best for Linux, overall (my experience is limited to Nvidia, so maybe that's why, Idk).