diff --git a/crates/bevy_render/src/renderer/render_device.rs b/crates/bevy_render/src/renderer/render_device.rs
index 8cde892f68..2761a94e1c 100644
--- a/crates/bevy_render/src/renderer/render_device.rs
+++ b/crates/bevy_render/src/renderer/render_device.rs
@@ -64,11 +64,27 @@ impl RenderDevice {
                         })
                 }
             }
-            _ => self.device.create_shader_module(desc),
+            // SAFETY: we are interfacing with shader code, which may contain undefined behavior,
+            // such as indexing out of bounds.
+            // The checks required are prohibitively expensive and a poor default for game engines.
+            // TODO: split this method into safe and unsafe variants, and propagate the safety requirements from
+            // https://docs.rs/wgpu/latest/wgpu/struct.Device.html#method.create_shader_module_trusted to the unsafe form.
+            _ => unsafe {
+                self.device
+                    .create_shader_module_trusted(desc, wgpu::ShaderRuntimeChecks::unchecked())
+            },
         }
 
         #[cfg(not(feature = "spirv_shader_passthrough"))]
-        self.device.create_shader_module(desc)
+        // SAFETY: we are interfacing with shader code, which may contain undefined behavior,
+        // such as indexing out of bounds.
+        // The checks required are prohibitively expensive and a poor default for game engines.
+        // TODO: split this method into safe and unsafe variants, and propagate the safety requirements from
+        // https://docs.rs/wgpu/latest/wgpu/struct.Device.html#method.create_shader_module_trusted to the unsafe form.
+        unsafe {
+            self.device
+                .create_shader_module_trusted(desc, wgpu::ShaderRuntimeChecks::unchecked())
+        }
     }
 
     /// Check for resource cleanups and mapping callbacks.