LILinAGKar·Oct 31, 2021
VP9 decode and AV1 decode/encode is planned: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs/issues/1497#issu...
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To answer that question in the context of Vulkan I highly recommend reading the proposal document for VK_EXT_shader_object which contains a great explanation in the problem…
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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2 sourcesI'll say I am definitely biased in favor of WebGPU up front[2].
WebGPU is focused on landing 1.0 currently, so yes, more features are not on the immediate roadmap.
But they've been considering/investigating adding support for this before mesh shaders in DX12 were even finalized[0] so it's not like there is some "we cannot / will not expose that functionality" mandate going on here. Despite its name, WebGPU is actually pretty much a 1:1 mapping of what is commonly available across APIs.
Separately, AMD doesn't support mesh shaders in Vulkan either, in fact Vulkan doesn't at all outside of a Nvidia extension from what I understand - and it sounds like there are some concerns from Khronos about whether they even map to all GPU architectures in a reasonable way at all.[1]
If you want to argue "but by dropping to the level of DX12, Vulkan, Met
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al, etc. I can use some very specific new features" that's totally true, but you can do that with WebGPU native too: after all, Dawn and other WebGPU implementations are just abstractions over those 3 APIs. One can just as easily hop into their code and add your own extension to make use of Mesh shaders in DX12, I can say that at least Dawn's codebase is set up to allow for such extensions from what I've seen.
[0] https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/445
[1] https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs/issues/1423#issu...
[2] https://devlog.hexops.com/2021/mach-engine-the-future-of-gra...