PIPELINE_STAGE_TOP_OF_PIPE_BIT specifies the stage of the pipeline where any commands are initially received by the queue.

PIPELINE_STAGE_DRAW_INDIRECT_BIT specifies the stage of the pipeline where Draw/DispatchIndirect data structures are consumed. This stage also includes reading commands written by cmdProcessCommandsNVX.

PIPELINE_STAGE_VERTEX_INPUT_BIT specifies the stage of the pipeline where vertex and index buffers are consumed.

PIPELINE_STAGE_VERTEX_SHADER_BIT specifies the vertex shader stage.

PIPELINE_STAGE_TESSELLATION_CONTROL_SHADER_BIT specifies the tessellation control shader stage.

PIPELINE_STAGE_TESSELLATION_EVALUATION_SHADER_BIT specifies the tessellation evaluation shader stage.

PIPELINE_STAGE_GEOMETRY_SHADER_BIT specifies the geometry shader stage.

PIPELINE_STAGE_FRAGMENT_SHADER_BIT specifies the fragment shader stage.

PIPELINE_STAGE_EARLY_FRAGMENT_TESTS_BIT specifies the stage of the pipeline where early fragment tests (depth and stencil tests before fragment shading) are performed. This stage also includes subpass load operations for framebuffer attachments with a depth/stencil format.

PIPELINE_STAGE_LATE_FRAGMENT_TESTS_BIT specifies the stage of the pipeline where late fragment tests (depth and stencil tests after fragment shading) are performed. This stage also includes subpass store operations for framebuffer attachments with a depth/stencil format.

PIPELINE_STAGE_COLOR_ATTACHMENT_OUTPUT_BIT specifies the stage of the pipeline after blending where the final color values are output from the pipeline. This stage also includes subpass load and store operations and multisample resolve operations for framebuffer attachments with a color or depth/stencil format.

PIPELINE_STAGE_COMPUTE_SHADER_BIT specifies the execution of a compute shader.

PIPELINE_STAGE_TRANSFER_BIT specifies the following commands:

• All copy commands, including cmdCopyQueryPoolResults
• cmdBlitImage
• cmdResolveImage
• All clear commands, with the exception of cmdClearAttachments

PIPELINE_STAGE_BOTTOM_OF_PIPE_BIT specifies the final stage in the pipeline where operations generated by all commands complete execution.

PIPELINE_STAGE_HOST_BIT specifies a pseudo-stage indicating execution on the host of reads/writes of device memory. This stage is not invoked by any commands recorded in a command buffer.

PIPELINE_STAGE_ALL_GRAPHICS_BIT specifies the execution of all graphics pipeline stages, and is equivalent to the logical OR of:

• PIPELINE_STAGE_TOP_OF_PIPE_BIT
• PIPELINE_STAGE_DRAW_INDIRECT_BIT
• PIPELINE_STAGE_TASK_SHADER_BIT_NV
• PIPELINE_STAGE_MESH_SHADER_BIT_NV
• PIPELINE_STAGE_VERTEX_INPUT_BIT
• PIPELINE_STAGE_VERTEX_SHADER_BIT
• PIPELINE_STAGE_TESSELLATION_CONTROL_SHADER_BIT
• PIPELINE_STAGE_TESSELLATION_EVALUATION_SHADER_BIT
• PIPELINE_STAGE_GEOMETRY_SHADER_BIT
• PIPELINE_STAGE_FRAGMENT_SHADER_BIT
• PIPELINE_STAGE_EARLY_FRAGMENT_TESTS_BIT
• PIPELINE_STAGE_LATE_FRAGMENT_TESTS_BIT
• PIPELINE_STAGE_COLOR_ATTACHMENT_OUTPUT_BIT
• PIPELINE_STAGE_BOTTOM_OF_PIPE_BIT
• PIPELINE_STAGE_CONDITIONAL_RENDERING_BIT_EXT
• PIPELINE_STAGE_TRANSFORM_FEEDBACK_BIT_EXT
• PIPELINE_STAGE_SHADING_RATE_IMAGE_BIT_NV
• PIPELINE_STAGE_FRAGMENT_DENSITY_PROCESS_BIT_EXT

PIPELINE_STAGE_ALL_COMMANDS_BIT is equivalent to the logical OR of every other pipeline stage flag that is supported on the queue it is used with.

PIPELINE_STAGE_FRAGMENT_DENSITY_PROCESS_BIT_EXT specifies the stage of the pipeline where the fragment density map is read to generate the fragment areas.

PIPELINE_STAGE_MESH_SHADER_BIT_NV specifies the mesh shader stage.

PIPELINE_STAGE_TASK_SHADER_BIT_NV specifies the task shader stage.

PIPELINE_STAGE_ACCELERATION_STRUCTURE_BUILD_BIT_NV specifies the execution of cmdBuildAccelerationStructureNV, cmdCopyAccelerationStructureNV, and cmdWriteAccelerationStructuresPropertiesNV.

PIPELINE_STAGE_RAY_TRACING_SHADER_BIT_NV specifies the execution of the ray tracing shader stages.

PIPELINE_STAGE_SHADING_RATE_IMAGE_BIT_NV specifies the stage of the pipeline where the shading rate image is read to determine the shading rate for portions of a rasterized primitive.

PIPELINE_STAGE_COMMAND_PROCESS_BIT_NVX specifies the stage of the pipeline where device-side generation of commands via cmdProcessCommandsNVX is handled.

PIPELINE_STAGE_CONDITIONAL_RENDERING_BIT_EXT specifies the stage of the pipeline where the predicate of conditional rendering is consumed.

PIPELINE_STAGE_TRANSFORM_FEEDBACK_BIT_EXT specifies the stage of the pipeline where vertex attribute output values are written to the transform feedback buffers.