diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index a1495e081bb..a932721b729 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -181,6 +181,14 @@ jobs:
             tier: 2
             kind: no_std
 
+          # 32-bit PowerPC Linux
+          # Included to test support for `portable-atomic`
+          - name: Linux ppc32
+            os: ubuntu-22.04
+            target: powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
+            tier: 2
+            kind: wgpu-only
+
     name: Clippy ${{ matrix.name }}
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
 
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 1198532882e..e440ef3367d 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1305,7 +1305,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "33d852cb9b869c2a9b3df2f71a3074817f01e1844f839a144f5fcef059a4eb5d"
 dependencies = [
  "libc",
- "windows-sys 0.52.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.59.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -2004,7 +2004,7 @@ checksum = "e19b23d53f35ce9f56aebc7d1bb4e6ac1e9c0db7ac85c8d1760c04379edced37"
 dependencies = [
  "hermit-abi",
  "libc",
- "windows-sys 0.52.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.59.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -2134,7 +2134,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "fc2f4eb4bc735547cfed7c0a4922cbd04a4655978c09b54f1f7b228750664c34"
 dependencies = [
  "cfg-if",
- "windows-targets 0.48.5",
+ "windows-targets 0.52.6",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -3043,6 +3043,12 @@ version = "0.4.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "2f3a9f18d041e6d0e102a0a46750538147e5e8992d3b4873aaafee2520b00ce3"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "portable-atomic"
+version = "1.10.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "280dc24453071f1b63954171985a0b0d30058d287960968b9b2aca264c8d4ee6"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pp-rs"
 version = "0.2.1"
@@ -3336,7 +3342,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "errno",
  "libc",
  "linux-raw-sys",
- "windows-sys 0.52.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.59.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -4005,7 +4011,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "69fff37da548239c3bf9e64a12193d261e8b22b660991c6fd2df057c168f435f"
 dependencies = [
  "cc",
- "windows-targets 0.48.5",
+ "windows-targets 0.52.6",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -4507,6 +4513,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "log",
  "naga",
  "parking_lot",
+ "portable-atomic",
  "profiling",
  "raw-window-handle 0.6.2",
  "smallvec",
@@ -4551,6 +4558,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "naga",
  "once_cell",
  "parking_lot",
+ "portable-atomic",
  "profiling",
  "raw-window-handle 0.6.2",
  "ron",
@@ -4681,6 +4689,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "once_cell",
  "ordered-float",
  "parking_lot",
+ "portable-atomic",
  "profiling",
  "range-alloc",
  "raw-window-handle 0.5.2",
@@ -4804,7 +4813,7 @@ version = "0.1.9"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "cf221c93e13a30d793f7645a0e7762c55d169dbb0a49671918a2319d289b10bb"
 dependencies = [
- "windows-sys 0.48.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.59.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 38a0b60ce6b..f0608b43cc9 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ pico-args = { version = "0.5.0", features = [
 ] }
 png = "0.17.16"
 pollster = "0.4"
+portable-atomic = "1"
 profiling = { version = "1", default-features = false }
 raw-window-handle = { version = "0.6", default-features = false }
 rayon = "1"
diff --git a/wgpu-core/Cargo.toml b/wgpu-core/Cargo.toml
index 863769913d7..bf8e84eefe9 100644
--- a/wgpu-core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/wgpu-core/Cargo.toml
@@ -114,6 +114,9 @@ fragile-send-sync-non-atomic-wasm = [
 ## Enable using the `mach-dxcompiler-rs` crate to compile DX12 shaders.
 static-dxc = ["wgpu-hal/static-dxc"]
 
+## Enable portable atomics on platforms that do not support 64bit atomics.
+portable-atomic = ["dep:portable-atomic", "wgpu-hal/portable-atomic"]
+
 #! ### Target Conditional Features
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Look to wgpu-hal's Cargo.toml for explaination how these features and the wgpu-core
@@ -179,5 +182,8 @@ serde = { workspace = true, features = ["default", "derive"], optional = true }
 smallvec.workspace = true
 thiserror.workspace = true
 
+[target.'cfg(not(target_has_atomic = "64"))'.dependencies]
+portable-atomic = { workspace = true, optional = true }
+
 [build-dependencies]
 cfg_aliases.workspace = true
diff --git a/wgpu-core/build.rs b/wgpu-core/build.rs
index 55c43fba209..fde109a7fa1 100644
--- a/wgpu-core/build.rs
+++ b/wgpu-core/build.rs
@@ -18,5 +18,7 @@ fn main() {
             all(target_vendor = "apple", feature = "vulkan-portability") // Vulkan Portability on Apple
         ) },
         metal: { all(target_vendor = "apple", feature = "metal") },
+
+        supports_64bit_atomics: { target_has_atomic = "64" }
     }
 }
diff --git a/wgpu-core/src/device/resource.rs b/wgpu-core/src/device/resource.rs
index 036140e31ba..69a62ab1191 100644
--- a/wgpu-core/src/device/resource.rs
+++ b/wgpu-core/src/device/resource.rs
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ use core::{
     fmt,
     mem::{self, ManuallyDrop},
     num::NonZeroU32,
-    sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, AtomicU64, Ordering},
+    sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, Ordering},
 };
 use std::sync::OnceLock;
 
@@ -57,6 +57,11 @@ use super::{
     ENTRYPOINT_FAILURE_ERROR, ZERO_BUFFER_SIZE,
 };
 
+#[cfg(supports_64bit_atomics)]
+use core::sync::atomic::AtomicU64;
+#[cfg(not(supports_64bit_atomics))]
+use portable_atomic::AtomicU64;
+
 /// Structure describing a logical device. Some members are internally mutable,
 /// stored behind mutexes.
 pub struct Device {
diff --git a/wgpu-hal/Cargo.toml b/wgpu-hal/Cargo.toml
index 9255d507a76..dedf4e1014f 100644
--- a/wgpu-hal/Cargo.toml
+++ b/wgpu-hal/Cargo.toml
@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ renderdoc = ["dep:libloading", "dep:renderdoc-sys", "dep:log"]
 fragile-send-sync-non-atomic-wasm = [
     "wgpu-types/fragile-send-sync-non-atomic-wasm",
 ]
+portable-atomic = ["dep:portable-atomic"]
 
 ###################################
 ### Internal Debugging Features ###
@@ -300,6 +301,9 @@ khronos-egl = { workspace = true, optional = true, features = [
 # Note: it's unused by emscripten, but we keep it to have single code base in egl.rs
 libloading = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 
+[target.'cfg(not(target_has_atomic = "64"))'.dependencies]
+portable-atomic = { workspace = true, optional = true }
+
 [build-dependencies]
 cfg_aliases.workspace = true
 
diff --git a/wgpu-hal/build.rs b/wgpu-hal/build.rs
index 9a648c60eaa..d67321a72d8 100644
--- a/wgpu-hal/build.rs
+++ b/wgpu-hal/build.rs
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ fn main() {
         metal: { all(target_vendor = "apple", feature = "metal") },
         vulkan: { all(not(target_arch = "wasm32"), feature = "vulkan") },
         // ⚠️ Keep in sync with target.cfg() definition in Cargo.toml and cfg_alias in `wgpu` crate ⚠️
-        static_dxc: { all(target_os = "windows", feature = "static-dxc", not(target_arch = "aarch64")) }
+        static_dxc: { all(target_os = "windows", feature = "static-dxc", not(target_arch = "aarch64")) },
+        supports_64bit_atomics: { target_has_atomic = "64" }
     }
 }
diff --git a/wgpu-hal/src/lib.rs b/wgpu-hal/src/lib.rs
index 3bfc5dab3a7..cd7139b27de 100644
--- a/wgpu-hal/src/lib.rs
+++ b/wgpu-hal/src/lib.rs
@@ -317,7 +317,10 @@ pub const QUERY_SIZE: wgt::BufferAddress = 8;
 pub type Label<'a> = Option<&'a str>;
 pub type MemoryRange = Range<wgt::BufferAddress>;
 pub type FenceValue = u64;
+#[cfg(supports_64bit_atomics)]
 pub type AtomicFenceValue = core::sync::atomic::AtomicU64;
+#[cfg(not(supports_64bit_atomics))]
+pub type AtomicFenceValue = portable_atomic::AtomicU64;
 
 /// A callback to signal that wgpu is no longer using a resource.
 #[cfg(any(gles, vulkan))]
diff --git a/wgpu-hal/src/noop/mod.rs b/wgpu-hal/src/noop/mod.rs
index 2e1f8f665c7..b9ddb242cba 100644
--- a/wgpu-hal/src/noop/mod.rs
+++ b/wgpu-hal/src/noop/mod.rs
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 #![allow(unused_variables)]
 
 use alloc::{string::String, vec, vec::Vec};
-use core::{
-    ptr,
-    sync::atomic::{AtomicU64, Ordering},
-    time::Duration,
-};
+use core::{ptr, sync::atomic::Ordering, time::Duration};
+
+#[cfg(supports_64bit_atomics)]
+use core::sync::atomic::AtomicU64;
+#[cfg(not(supports_64bit_atomics))]
+use portable_atomic::AtomicU64;
 
 use crate::TlasInstance;
 
diff --git a/wgpu/Cargo.toml b/wgpu/Cargo.toml
index aa6f25d05c7..c79f31aeba0 100644
--- a/wgpu/Cargo.toml
+++ b/wgpu/Cargo.toml
@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ wgpu-core = { workspace = true, features = [
     "raw-window-handle",
     "renderdoc",
     "indirect-validation",
+    "portable-atomic",
 ] }
 wgpu-hal.workspace = true
 
@@ -216,5 +217,8 @@ wgpu-hal.workspace = true
 
 smallvec.workspace = true
 
+[target.'cfg(not(target_has_atomic = "64"))'.dependencies]
+portable-atomic.workspace = true
+
 [build-dependencies]
 cfg_aliases.workspace = true
diff --git a/wgpu/build.rs b/wgpu/build.rs
index d853281dfa4..787e4691fbc 100644
--- a/wgpu/build.rs
+++ b/wgpu/build.rs
@@ -16,5 +16,6 @@ fn main() {
         naga: { any(feature = "naga-ir", feature = "spirv", feature = "glsl") },
         // ⚠️ Keep in sync with target.cfg() definition in wgpu-hal/Cargo.toml and cfg_alias in `wgpu-hal` crate ⚠️
         static_dxc: { all(target_os = "windows", feature = "static-dxc", not(target_arch = "aarch64")) },
+        supports_64bit_atomics: { target_has_atomic = "64" }
     }
 }
diff --git a/wgpu/src/cmp.rs b/wgpu/src/cmp.rs
index 64fc73f115a..60829cfde88 100644
--- a/wgpu/src/cmp.rs
+++ b/wgpu/src/cmp.rs
@@ -4,10 +4,12 @@
 //!
 //! For types (like WebGPU) that don't have such a property, we generate an identifier and use that.
 
-use core::{
-    num::NonZeroU64,
-    sync::atomic::{AtomicU64, Ordering},
-};
+#[cfg(supports_64bit_atomics)]
+pub use core::sync::atomic::AtomicU64;
+#[cfg(not(supports_64bit_atomics))]
+pub use portable_atomic::AtomicU64;
+
+use core::{num::NonZeroU64, sync::atomic::Ordering};
 
 static NEXT_ID: AtomicU64 = AtomicU64::new(1);
 
diff --git a/xtask/src/check_feature_dependencies.rs b/xtask/src/check_feature_dependencies.rs
index 3a1e4c3f0c1..70451df0243 100644
--- a/xtask/src/check_feature_dependencies.rs
+++ b/xtask/src/check_feature_dependencies.rs
@@ -155,6 +155,22 @@ pub fn check_feature_dependencies(shell: Shell, arguments: Arguments) -> anyhow:
             default_features: false,
             search_terms: &[Search::Positive("glow")],
         },
+        Requirement {
+            human_readable_name: "x86-64 does not depend on portable-atomic",
+            target: "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu",
+            packages: &["wgpu"],
+            features: &[],
+            default_features: false,
+            search_terms: &[Search::Negative("portable-atomic")],
+        },
+        Requirement {
+            human_readable_name: "ppc32 does depend on portable-atomic",
+            target: "powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu",
+            packages: &["wgpu"],
+            features: &[],
+            default_features: false,
+            search_terms: &[Search::Positive("portable-atomic")],
+        },
     ];
 
     let mut any_failures = false;