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GPUDevice: adapterInfo property

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The adapterInfo read-only property of the GPUDevice interface returns a GPUAdapterInfo object containing identifying information about the device's originating adapter.

Value

A GPUAdapterInfo object instance.

Examples

Basic adapterInfo usage

const adapter = await navigator.gpu.requestAdapter();
if (!adapter) {
  throw Error("Couldn't request WebGPU adapter.");
}

const myDevice = await adapter.requestDevice();

function optimizeForGpuDevice(device) {
  if (device.adapterInfo.vendor === "amd") {
    // Use AMD-specific optimizations
  } else if (device.adapterInfo.architecture.includes("turing")) {
    // Optimize for NVIDIA Turing architecture
  }
}

optimizeForGpuDevice(myDevice);

Specifications

Specification
WebGPU> # dom-gpudevice-adapterinfo>

Browser compatibility