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		danjl 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141 They can take a huge step into the present by supporting RTX ray tracing native instructions on the GPU.

Vipitis 9 months ago [–]

that's an exciting feature to have available, as raytracing hardware is now in mobile iGPUs and phones.

There is a tracking issue[1], although I am not sure how much of that makes it to the browser.

[1] https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/issues/6762

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