wgpu-native
Native WebGPU implementation based on wgpu-core (by gfx-rs)
swiftshader
SwiftShader is a high-performance CPU-based implementation of the Vulkan graphics API. Its goal is to provide hardware independence for advanced 3D graphics. (by google)
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| wgpu-native | swiftshader | |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | 11 | |
| 718 | 2,015 | |
| 5.7% | 1.6% | |
| 8.3 | 0.0 | |
| 8 days ago | 17 days ago | |
| Rust | C++ | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
wgpu-native
Posts with mentions or reviews of wgpu-native.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-11.
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Capturing the WebGPU Ecosystem
The Mach engine project has prebuilt Dawn libraries and also a simplified build-from-source process using the Zig build system, see:
https://machengine.org/pkg/mach-gpu-dawn/
It's also possible to use wgpu-native in C/C++ projects as prebuilt library, see:
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I started drafting a tuto to learn WebGPU for native C++
It is based on the wgpu-native implementation (Firefox backend) but I plan on adding a receipe for using it with Dawn (Chrome backend) as well.
- How is Vulkan supposed to supersede OpenGL in practice?
- Vulkan update: version 1.2 conformance for Raspberry Pi 4
- New open source Common Lisp 3D graphics project -- call for participation
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Go bindings for WebGPU
go-webgpu provides binding for wgpu-native (a safe and portable GPU abstraction in Rust, implementing WebGPU API).
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The current state of GPU API's and why I wish V-EZ hadn't died.
Rust, C++
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WebGL 2.0 is Now Supported in All Major Browsers
When you look at graphics APIs in Rust practically everything is pointing towards, and telling you to use, wgpu, which abstracts over Vulkan, Metal, DX11/12, GLES and WebGPU and is based on, drumroll, WebGPU. Hardly surprising as it's the backend firefox is going to use. And yes it has a C API, too.
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Mach Engine: The future of graphics (with Zig)
Probably the easiest option would be to target wgpu-native prebuilt binaries but these don't have iOS/Android (unsure if wgpu-native supports iOS/Android at all)
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Learn Wgpu
WGPU is the underlying implementation for WebGPU in Firefox and it has C bindings: https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu-native.git.
swiftshader
Posts with mentions or reviews of swiftshader.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-25.
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WebGPU Technical Report
Is it really true that those bugs aren't getting fixed? There's a commit from July 18th to SwiftShader that seems to be addressing exactly the bug described in the blog post:
https://github.com/google/swiftshader/commit/4e401427f8dd799...
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Vulkan drivers for 7 year old PC?
If your GPU does not support Vulkan you can still do some experimenting with a CPU renderer. I've used swiftshader a lot, it's a bit of a pain to compile, but once you manage to do so you can compile and run Vulkan code almost the same as if you had a compatible GPU. The performance of course is not great, but it's better than nothing.
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Has anyone gotten Amnesia: Rebirth to work on their Apple Silicon Mac?
swiftshader by Google (link):
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is makeing Vulkan guis worth it?
You also don't get extensive support for various hardware for free – good luck running a Vulkan GUI on a pre-GCN AMD card or a sufficiently old NVIDIA one without a compatibility layer of sorts, which would require bothering with Vulkan Portability (i.e. missing certain Vulkan features due to it being implemented via an older API). The only alternative to that is SwiftShader (which would throw your extremely fast GUI aspirations right outta the window).
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With the induction of UE5’s integrated real-time lighting system (Lumen); if developers begin utilizing this technology, and Epic optimizes its CPU performance, do you think it will replace ray-tracing? Should AMD keep chasing this feature?
That's like saying no one needs a GPU anymore because Swiftshader exists.
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Swiftshader without watermark?
Btw, if anyone's interested, here's the link to that branch: https://github.com/google/swiftshader/tree/legacy-d3d9
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WebGL 2.0 is Now Supported in All Major Browsers
Yeah, there's still a fallback option through the use of Swiftshader if GPU accelerated vulkan isn't an option. If you use Vulkan for GUI, then it'll be fine to use Swiftshader, but if you're trying to play a game on Swiftshader, it'll likely struggle and probably fail.
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Direct3D on Flutter Desktop
The fix is https://github.com/flutter/engine/pull/25205 to use soft renderer SwiftShader instead of DXD9 on low-end PCs
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Forza Horizon 5 with no graphics card
Google’s version is SwiftShader
- Why isn’t Vulkan used as the backend for things like wayland, Firefox, et
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wgpu-native and swiftshader you can also consider the following projects:
go-webgpu - Go bindings for WebGPU, a safe & cross-platform GPU abstraction
angle - A conformant OpenGL ES implementation for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android.
webgpu-headers
steam-audio - Steam Audio
learn-wgpu - Guide for using gfx-rs's wgpu library.
swiftshader-dist-win - Google SwiftShader Windows builds focused on Vulkan driver with utilities to help usage
wgpu - Cross-platform, safe, pure-rust graphics api.
vello - An experimental GPU compute-centric 2D renderer.
bgfx - Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.
engine - The Flutter engine
LearnOpenGL - Code repository of all OpenGL chapters from the book and its accompanying website https://learnopengl.com
iced - A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm