playcanvas / playcanvas/engine
WebGL renders much faster than WebGPU
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Since Aug 1, 2025.
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Description
I was looking at the "Caldera" dataset as a means to do some benchmarking and webgl is nearly 2x faster than webgpu here.
https://github.com/Activision/caldera
A link to the GLB, tested in the playcanvas viewer:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IRcqoTDtXlnVTXkjz33reRL-heACw5nO
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WebGPU
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