This is actually still true in a lot of cases where proper compute shaders are not available - notably webGL. See: https://threejs.org/examples/webgl_gpgpu_bir

This is actually still true in a lot of cases where proper compute shaders are not available - notably webGL. See: https://threejs.org/examples/webgl_gpgpu_birds.html https://threejs.org/examples/webgl_gpgpu_birds.html and: https://github.com/yomboprime/GPGPU-threejs-demos https://github.com/yomboprime/GPGPU-threejs-demos Though WebGPU is coming which I believe will mitigate this.