vkEnumeratePhysicalDeviceGroups - Enumerates groups of physical devices that can be used to create a single logical device

Parameters

• instance is a handle to a Vulkan instance previously created with createInstance.

• pPhysicalDeviceGroupCount is a pointer to an integer related to the number of device groups available or queried, as described below.
• pPhysicalDeviceGroupProperties is either NULL or a pointer to an array of PhysicalDeviceGroupProperties structures.

Description

If pPhysicalDeviceGroupProperties is NULL, then the number of device groups available is returned in pPhysicalDeviceGroupCount. Otherwise, pPhysicalDeviceGroupCount must point to a variable set by the user to the number of elements in the pPhysicalDeviceGroupProperties array, and on return the variable is overwritten with the number of structures actually written to pPhysicalDeviceGroupProperties. If pPhysicalDeviceGroupCount is less than the number of device groups available, at most pPhysicalDeviceGroupCount structures will be written. If pPhysicalDeviceGroupCount is smaller than the number of device groups available, INCOMPLETE will be returned instead of SUCCESS, to indicate that not all the available device groups were returned.

Every physical device must be in exactly one device group.

Valid Usage (Implicit)

• instance must be a valid Instance handle

• pPhysicalDeviceGroupCount must be a valid pointer to a uint32_t value
• If the value referenced by pPhysicalDeviceGroupCount is not 0, and pPhysicalDeviceGroupProperties is not NULL, pPhysicalDeviceGroupProperties must be a valid pointer to an array of pPhysicalDeviceGroupCount PhysicalDeviceGroupProperties structures

Return Codes

Success

• SUCCESS
• INCOMPLETE

Failure

• ERROR_OUT_OF_HOST_MEMORY
• ERROR_OUT_OF_DEVICE_MEMORY
• ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

See Also

Instance, PhysicalDeviceGroupProperties

VkPhysicalDeviceGroupProperties - Structure specifying physical device group properties

Valid Usage (Implicit)

See Also

Bool32, PhysicalDevice, StructureType, enumeratePhysicalDeviceGroups, enumeratePhysicalDeviceGroupsKHR

VkDeviceGroupDeviceCreateInfo - Create a logical device from multiple physical devices

Description

The elements of the pPhysicalDevices array are an ordered list of the physical devices that the logical device represents. These must be a subset of a single device group, and need not be in the same order as they were enumerated. The order of the physical devices in the pPhysicalDevices array determines the device index of each physical device, with element i being assigned a device index of i. Certain commands and structures refer to one or more physical devices by using device indices or device masks formed using device indices.

A logical device created without using DeviceGroupDeviceCreateInfo, or with physicalDeviceCount equal to zero, is equivalent to a physicalDeviceCount of one and pPhysicalDevices pointing to the physicalDevice parameter to createDevice. In particular, the device index of that physical device is zero.

Valid Usage

• Each element of pPhysicalDevices must be unique

• All elements of pPhysicalDevices must be in the same device group as enumerated by enumeratePhysicalDeviceGroups
• If physicalDeviceCount is not 0, the physicalDevice parameter of createDevice must be an element of pPhysicalDevices.

Valid Usage (Implicit)

• sType must be STRUCTURE_TYPE_DEVICE_GROUP_DEVICE_CREATE_INFO

• If physicalDeviceCount is not 0, pPhysicalDevices must be a valid pointer to an array of physicalDeviceCount valid PhysicalDevice handles

See Also

PhysicalDevice, StructureType

VkStructureType - Vulkan structure types (stype)

Description

Each value corresponds to a particular structure with a sType member with a matching name. As a general rule, the name of each StructureType value is obtained by taking the name of the structure, stripping the leading Vk, prefixing each capital letter with _, converting the entire resulting string to upper case, and prefixing it with VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_. For example, structures of type ImageCreateInfo correspond to a StructureType of STRUCTURE_TYPE_IMAGE_CREATE_INFO, and thus its sType member must equal that when it is passed to the API.

The values STRUCTURE_TYPE_LOADER_INSTANCE_CREATE_INFO and STRUCTURE_TYPE_LOADER_DEVICE_CREATE_INFO are reserved for internal use by the loader, and do not have corresponding Vulkan structures in this Specification.

See Also

AccelerationStructureCreateInfoNV, AccelerationStructureInfoNV, AccelerationStructureMemoryRequirementsInfoNV, AcquireNextImageInfoKHR, AcquireProfilingLockInfoKHR, AndroidHardwareBufferFormatPropertiesANDROID, AndroidHardwareBufferPropertiesANDROID, AndroidHardwareBufferUsageANDROID, AndroidSurfaceCreateInfoKHR, ApplicationInfo, AttachmentDescription2, AttachmentDescriptionStencilLayout, AttachmentReference2, AttachmentReferenceStencilLayout, BaseInStructure, BaseOutStructure, BindAccelerationStructureMemoryInfoNV, BindBufferMemoryDeviceGroupInfo, BindBufferMemoryInfo, BindImageMemoryDeviceGroupInfo, BindImageMemoryInfo, BindImageMemorySwapchainInfoKHR, BindImagePlaneMemoryInfo, BindSparseInfo, BufferCreateInfo, BufferDeviceAddressCreateInfoEXT, BufferDeviceAddressInfo, BufferMemoryBarrier, BufferMemoryRequirementsInfo2, BufferOpaqueCaptureAddressCreateInfo, BufferViewCreateInfo, CalibratedTimestampInfoEXT, CheckpointDataNV, CmdProcessCommandsInfoNVX, CmdReserveSpaceForCommandsInfoNVX, CommandBufferAllocateInfo, CommandBufferBeginInfo, CommandBufferInheritanceConditionalRenderingInfoEXT, CommandBufferInheritanceInfo, CommandBufferInheritanceRenderPassTransformInfoQCOM, CommandPoolCreateInfo, ComputePipelineCreateInfo, ConditionalRenderingBeginInfoEXT, CooperativeMatrixPropertiesNV, CopyDescriptorSet, D3D12FenceSubmitInfoKHR, DebugMarkerMarkerInfoEXT, DebugMarkerObjectNameInfoEXT, DebugMarkerObjectTagInfoEXT, DebugReportCallbackCreateInfoEXT, DebugUtilsLabelEXT, DebugUtilsMessengerCallbackDataEXT, DebugUtilsMessengerCreateInfoEXT, DebugUtilsObjectNameInfoEXT, DebugUtilsObjectTagInfoEXT, DedicatedAllocationBufferCreateInfoNV, DedicatedAllocationImageCreateInfoNV, DedicatedAllocationMemoryAllocateInfoNV, DescriptorPoolCreateInfo, DescriptorPoolInlineUniformBlockCreateInfoEXT, DescriptorSetAllocateInfo, DescriptorSetLayoutBindingFlagsCreateInfo, DescriptorSetLayoutCreateInfo, DescriptorSetLayoutSupport, DescriptorSetVariableDescriptorCountAllocateInfo, DescriptorSetVariableDescriptorCountLayoutSupport, DescriptorUpdateTemplateCreateInfo, DeviceCreateInfo, DeviceEventInfoEXT, DeviceGeneratedCommandsFeaturesNVX, DeviceGeneratedCommandsLimitsNVX, DeviceGroupBindSparseInfo, DeviceGroupCommandBufferBeginInfo, DeviceGroupDeviceCreateInfo, DeviceGroupPresentCapabilitiesKHR, DeviceGroupPresentInfoKHR, DeviceGroupRenderPassBeginInfo, DeviceGroupSubmitInfo, DeviceGroupSwapchainCreateInfoKHR, DeviceMemoryOpaqueCaptureAddressInfo, DeviceMemoryOverallocationCreateInfoAMD, DeviceQueueCreateInfo, DeviceQueueGlobalPriorityCreateInfoEXT, DeviceQueueInfo2, DisplayEventInfoEXT, DisplayModeCreateInfoKHR, DisplayModeProperties2KHR, DisplayNativeHdrSurfaceCapabilitiesAMD, DisplayPlaneCapabilities2KHR, DisplayPlaneInfo2KHR, DisplayPlaneProperties2KHR, DisplayPowerInfoEXT, DisplayPresentInfoKHR, DisplayProperties2KHR, DisplaySurfaceCreateInfoKHR, DrmFormatModifierPropertiesListEXT, EventCreateInfo, ExportFenceCreateInfo, ExportFenceWin32HandleInfoKHR, ExportMemoryAllocateInfo, ExportMemoryAllocateInfoNV, ExportMemoryWin32HandleInfoKHR, ExportMemoryWin32HandleInfoNV, ExportSemaphoreCreateInfo, ExportSemaphoreWin32HandleInfoKHR, ExternalBufferProperties, ExternalFenceProperties, ExternalFormatANDROID, ExternalImageFormatProperties, ExternalMemoryBufferCreateInfo, ExternalMemoryImageCreateInfo, ExternalMemoryImageCreateInfoNV, ExternalSemaphoreProperties, FenceCreateInfo, FenceGetFdInfoKHR, FenceGetWin32HandleInfoKHR, FilterCubicImageViewImageFormatPropertiesEXT, FormatProperties2, FramebufferAttachmentImageInfo, FramebufferAttachmentsCreateInfo, FramebufferCreateInfo, FramebufferMixedSamplesCombinationNV, GeometryAABBNV, GeometryNV, GeometryTrianglesNV, GraphicsPipelineCreateInfo, HdrMetadataEXT, HeadlessSurfaceCreateInfoEXT, IOSSurfaceCreateInfoMVK, ImageCreateInfo, ImageDrmFormatModifierExplicitCreateInfoEXT, ImageDrmFormatModifierListCreateInfoEXT, ImageDrmFormatModifierPropertiesEXT, ImageFormatListCreateInfo, ImageFormatProperties2, ImageMemoryBarrier, ImageMemoryRequirementsInfo2, ImagePipeSurfaceCreateInfoFUCHSIA, ImagePlaneMemoryRequirementsInfo, ImageSparseMemoryRequirementsInfo2, ImageStencilUsageCreateInfo, ImageSwapchainCreateInfoKHR, ImageViewASTCDecodeModeEXT, ImageViewCreateInfo, ImageViewHandleInfoNVX, ImageViewUsageCreateInfo, ImportAndroidHardwareBufferInfoANDROID, ImportFenceFdInfoKHR, ImportFenceWin32HandleInfoKHR, ImportMemoryFdInfoKHR, ImportMemoryHostPointerInfoEXT, ImportMemoryWin32HandleInfoKHR, ImportMemoryWin32HandleInfoNV, ImportSemaphoreFdInfoKHR, ImportSemaphoreWin32HandleInfoKHR, IndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoNVX, InitializePerformanceApiInfoINTEL, InstanceCreateInfo, MacOSSurfaceCreateInfoMVK, MappedMemoryRange, MemoryAllocateFlagsInfo, MemoryAllocateInfo, MemoryBarrier, MemoryDedicatedAllocateInfo, MemoryDedicatedRequirements, MemoryFdPropertiesKHR, MemoryGetAndroidHardwareBufferInfoANDROID, MemoryGetFdInfoKHR, MemoryGetWin32HandleInfoKHR, MemoryHostPointerPropertiesEXT, MemoryOpaqueCaptureAddressAllocateInfo, MemoryPriorityAllocateInfoEXT, MemoryRequirements2, MemoryWin32HandlePropertiesKHR, MetalSurfaceCreateInfoEXT, MultisamplePropertiesEXT, ObjectTableCreateInfoNVX, PerformanceConfigurationAcquireInfoINTEL, PerformanceCounterDescriptionKHR, PerformanceCounterKHR, PerformanceMarkerInfoINTEL, PerformanceOverrideInfoINTEL, PerformanceQuerySubmitInfoKHR, PerformanceStreamMarkerInfoINTEL, PhysicalDevice16BitStorageFeatures, PhysicalDevice8BitStorageFeatures, PhysicalDeviceASTCDecodeFeaturesEXT, PhysicalDeviceBlendOperationAdvancedFeaturesEXT, PhysicalDeviceBlendOperationAdvancedPropertiesEXT, PhysicalDeviceBufferDeviceAddressFeatures, PhysicalDeviceBufferDeviceAddressFeaturesEXT, PhysicalDeviceCoherentMemoryFeaturesAMD, PhysicalDeviceComputeShaderDerivativesFeaturesNV, PhysicalDeviceConditionalRenderingFeaturesEXT, PhysicalDeviceConservativeRasterizationPropertiesEXT, PhysicalDeviceCooperativeMatrixFeaturesNV, PhysicalDeviceCooperativeMatrixPropertiesNV, PhysicalDeviceCornerSampledImageFeaturesNV, PhysicalDeviceCoverageReductionModeFeaturesNV, PhysicalDeviceDedicatedAllocationImageAliasingFeaturesNV, PhysicalDeviceDepthClipEnableFeaturesEXT, PhysicalDeviceDepthStencilResolveProperties, PhysicalDeviceDescriptorIndexingFeatures, PhysicalDeviceDescriptorIndexingProperties, PhysicalDeviceDiscardRectanglePropertiesEXT, PhysicalDeviceDriverProperties, PhysicalDeviceExclusiveScissorFeaturesNV, PhysicalDeviceExternalBufferInfo, PhysicalDeviceExternalFenceInfo, PhysicalDeviceExternalImageFormatInfo, PhysicalDeviceExternalMemoryHostPropertiesEXT, PhysicalDeviceExternalSemaphoreInfo, PhysicalDeviceFeatures2, PhysicalDeviceFloatControlsProperties, PhysicalDeviceFragmentDensityMapFeaturesEXT, PhysicalDeviceFragmentDensityMapPropertiesEXT, PhysicalDeviceFragmentShaderBarycentricFeaturesNV, PhysicalDeviceFragmentShaderInterlockFeaturesEXT, PhysicalDeviceGroupProperties, PhysicalDeviceHostQueryResetFeatures, PhysicalDeviceIDProperties, PhysicalDeviceImageDrmFormatModifierInfoEXT, PhysicalDeviceImageFormatInfo2, PhysicalDeviceImageViewImageFormatInfoEXT, PhysicalDeviceImagelessFramebufferFeatures, PhysicalDeviceIndexTypeUint8FeaturesEXT, PhysicalDeviceInlineUniformBlockFeaturesEXT, PhysicalDeviceInlineUniformBlockPropertiesEXT, PhysicalDeviceLineRasterizationFeaturesEXT, PhysicalDeviceLineRasterizationPropertiesEXT, PhysicalDeviceMaintenance3Properties, PhysicalDeviceMemoryBudgetPropertiesEXT, PhysicalDeviceMemoryPriorityFeaturesEXT, PhysicalDeviceMemoryProperties2, PhysicalDeviceMeshShaderFeaturesNV, PhysicalDeviceMeshShaderPropertiesNV, PhysicalDeviceMultiviewFeatures, PhysicalDeviceMultiviewPerViewAttributesPropertiesNVX, PhysicalDeviceMultiviewProperties, PhysicalDevicePCIBusInfoPropertiesEXT, PhysicalDevicePerformanceQueryFeaturesKHR, PhysicalDevicePerformanceQueryPropertiesKHR, PhysicalDevicePipelineExecutablePropertiesFeaturesKHR, PhysicalDevicePointClippingProperties, PhysicalDeviceProperties2, PhysicalDeviceProtectedMemoryFeatures, PhysicalDeviceProtectedMemoryProperties, PhysicalDevicePushDescriptorPropertiesKHR, PhysicalDeviceRayTracingPropertiesNV, PhysicalDeviceRepresentativeFragmentTestFeaturesNV, PhysicalDeviceSampleLocationsPropertiesEXT, PhysicalDeviceSamplerFilterMinmaxProperties, PhysicalDeviceSamplerYcbcrConversionFeatures, PhysicalDeviceScalarBlockLayoutFeatures, PhysicalDeviceSeparateDepthStencilLayoutsFeatures, PhysicalDeviceShaderAtomicInt64Features, PhysicalDeviceShaderClockFeaturesKHR, PhysicalDeviceShaderCoreProperties2AMD, PhysicalDeviceShaderCorePropertiesAMD, PhysicalDeviceShaderDemoteToHelperInvocationFeaturesEXT, PhysicalDeviceShaderDrawParametersFeatures, PhysicalDeviceShaderFloat16Int8Features, PhysicalDeviceShaderImageFootprintFeaturesNV, PhysicalDeviceShaderIntegerFunctions2FeaturesINTEL, PhysicalDeviceShaderSMBuiltinsFeaturesNV, PhysicalDeviceShaderSMBuiltinsPropertiesNV, PhysicalDeviceShaderSubgroupExtendedTypesFeatures, PhysicalDeviceShadingRateImageFeaturesNV, PhysicalDeviceShadingRateImagePropertiesNV, PhysicalDeviceSparseImageFormatInfo2, PhysicalDeviceSubgroupProperties, PhysicalDeviceSubgroupSizeControlFeaturesEXT, PhysicalDeviceSubgroupSizeControlPropertiesEXT, PhysicalDeviceSurfaceInfo2KHR, PhysicalDeviceTexelBufferAlignmentFeaturesEXT, PhysicalDeviceTexelBufferAlignmentPropertiesEXT, PhysicalDeviceTextureCompressionASTCHDRFeaturesEXT, PhysicalDeviceTimelineSemaphoreFeatures, PhysicalDeviceTimelineSemaphoreProperties, PhysicalDeviceToolPropertiesEXT, PhysicalDeviceTransformFeedbackFeaturesEXT, PhysicalDeviceTransformFeedbackPropertiesEXT, PhysicalDeviceUniformBufferStandardLayoutFeatures, PhysicalDeviceVariablePointersFeatures, PhysicalDeviceVertexAttributeDivisorFeaturesEXT, PhysicalDeviceVertexAttributeDivisorPropertiesEXT, PhysicalDeviceVulkan11Features, PhysicalDeviceVulkan11Properties, PhysicalDeviceVulkan12Features, PhysicalDeviceVulkan12Properties, PhysicalDeviceVulkanMemoryModelFeatures, PhysicalDeviceYcbcrImageArraysFeaturesEXT, PipelineCacheCreateInfo, PipelineColorBlendAdvancedStateCreateInfoEXT, PipelineColorBlendStateCreateInfo, PipelineCompilerControlCreateInfoAMD, PipelineCoverageModulationStateCreateInfoNV, PipelineCoverageReductionStateCreateInfoNV, PipelineCoverageToColorStateCreateInfoNV, PipelineCreationFeedbackCreateInfoEXT, PipelineDepthStencilStateCreateInfo, PipelineDiscardRectangleStateCreateInfoEXT, PipelineDynamicStateCreateInfo, PipelineExecutableInfoKHR, PipelineExecutableInternalRepresentationKHR, PipelineExecutablePropertiesKHR, PipelineExecutableStatisticKHR, PipelineInfoKHR, PipelineInputAssemblyStateCreateInfo, PipelineLayoutCreateInfo, PipelineMultisampleStateCreateInfo, PipelineRasterizationConservativeStateCreateInfoEXT, PipelineRasterizationDepthClipStateCreateInfoEXT, PipelineRasterizationLineStateCreateInfoEXT, PipelineRasterizationStateCreateInfo, PipelineRasterizationStateRasterizationOrderAMD, PipelineRasterizationStateStreamCreateInfoEXT, PipelineRepresentativeFragmentTestStateCreateInfoNV, PipelineSampleLocationsStateCreateInfoEXT, PipelineShaderStageCreateInfo, PipelineShaderStageRequiredSubgroupSizeCreateInfoEXT, PipelineTessellationDomainOriginStateCreateInfo, PipelineTessellationStateCreateInfo, PipelineVertexInputDivisorStateCreateInfoEXT, PipelineVertexInputStateCreateInfo, PipelineViewportCoarseSampleOrderStateCreateInfoNV, PipelineViewportExclusiveScissorStateCreateInfoNV, PipelineViewportShadingRateImageStateCreateInfoNV, PipelineViewportStateCreateInfo, PipelineViewportSwizzleStateCreateInfoNV, PipelineViewportWScalingStateCreateInfoNV, PresentFrameTokenGGP, PresentInfoKHR, PresentRegionsKHR, PresentTimesInfoGOOGLE, ProtectedSubmitInfo, QueryPoolCreateInfo, QueryPoolCreateInfoINTEL, QueryPoolPerformanceCreateInfoKHR, QueueFamilyCheckpointPropertiesNV, QueueFamilyProperties2, RayTracingPipelineCreateInfoNV, RayTracingShaderGroupCreateInfoNV, RenderPassAttachmentBeginInfo, RenderPassBeginInfo, RenderPassCreateInfo, RenderPassCreateInfo2, RenderPassFragmentDensityMapCreateInfoEXT, RenderPassInputAttachmentAspectCreateInfo, RenderPassMultiviewCreateInfo, RenderPassSampleLocationsBeginInfoEXT, RenderPassTransformBeginInfoQCOM, SampleLocationsInfoEXT, SamplerCreateInfo, SamplerReductionModeCreateInfo, SamplerYcbcrConversionCreateInfo, SamplerYcbcrConversionImageFormatProperties, SamplerYcbcrConversionInfo, SemaphoreCreateInfo, SemaphoreGetFdInfoKHR, SemaphoreGetWin32HandleInfoKHR, SemaphoreSignalInfo, SemaphoreTypeCreateInfo, SemaphoreWaitInfo, ShaderModuleCreateInfo, ShaderModuleValidationCacheCreateInfoEXT, SharedPresentSurfaceCapabilitiesKHR, SparseImageFormatProperties2, SparseImageMemoryRequirements2, StreamDescriptorSurfaceCreateInfoGGP, SubmitInfo, SubpassBeginInfo, SubpassDependency2, SubpassDescription2, SubpassDescriptionDepthStencilResolve, SubpassEndInfo, SurfaceCapabilities2EXT, SurfaceCapabilities2KHR, SurfaceCapabilitiesFullScreenExclusiveEXT, SurfaceFormat2KHR, SurfaceFullScreenExclusiveInfoEXT, SurfaceFullScreenExclusiveWin32InfoEXT, SurfaceProtectedCapabilitiesKHR, SwapchainCounterCreateInfoEXT, SwapchainCreateInfoKHR, SwapchainDisplayNativeHdrCreateInfoAMD, TextureLODGatherFormatPropertiesAMD, TimelineSemaphoreSubmitInfo, ValidationCacheCreateInfoEXT, ValidationFeaturesEXT, ValidationFlagsEXT, ViSurfaceCreateInfoNN, WaylandSurfaceCreateInfoKHR, Win32KeyedMutexAcquireReleaseInfoKHR, Win32KeyedMutexAcquireReleaseInfoNV, Win32SurfaceCreateInfoKHR, WriteDescriptorSet, WriteDescriptorSetAccelerationStructureNV, WriteDescriptorSetInlineUniformBlockEXT, XcbSurfaceCreateInfoKHR, XlibSurfaceCreateInfoKHR

VkMemoryHeapFlagBits - Bitmask specifying attribute flags for a heap

See Also

MemoryHeapFlags