Name

gl_NumWorkGroups — contains the number of workgroups that have been dispatched to a compute shader

Declaration

in uvec3 gl_NumWorkGroups

Description

In the compute language, gl_NumWorkGroups contains the total number of work groups that will execute the compute shader. The components of gl_NumWorkGroups are equal to the num_groups_x, num_groups_y, and num_groups_z parameters passed to the glDispatchCompute command.

Version Support

VariableVersion 1.10Version 1.20Version 1.30Version 1.40Version 1.50Version 3.30Version 4.00Version 4.10Version 4.20Version 4.30
gl_NumWorkGroups---------Y

See Also

gl_WorkGroupSize, gl_WorkGroupID, gl_LocalInvocationID

Copyright

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