VkPhysicalDeviceVulkan13Features(3)

# VkPhysicalDeviceVulkan13Features(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkPhysicalDeviceVulkan13Features - Structure describing the Vulkan 1.3 features that can be supported by an implementation

## C Specification

The `VkPhysicalDeviceVulkan13Features` structure is defined as:

    // Provided by VK_VERSION_1_3
    typedef struct VkPhysicalDeviceVulkan13Features {
        VkStructureType    sType;
        void*              pNext;
        VkBool32           robustImageAccess;
        VkBool32           inlineUniformBlock;
        VkBool32           descriptorBindingInlineUniformBlockUpdateAfterBind;
        VkBool32           pipelineCreationCacheControl;
        VkBool32           privateData;
        VkBool32           shaderDemoteToHelperInvocation;
        VkBool32           shaderTerminateInvocation;
        VkBool32           subgroupSizeControl;
        VkBool32           computeFullSubgroups;
        VkBool32           synchronization2;
        VkBool32           textureCompressionASTC_HDR;
        VkBool32           shaderZeroInitializeWorkgroupMemory;
        VkBool32           dynamicRendering;
        VkBool32           shaderIntegerDotProduct;
        VkBool32           maintenance4;
    } VkPhysicalDeviceVulkan13Features;

## Members

This structure describes the following features:

- `sType` is a VkStructureType value identifying this structure.

- `pNext` is `NULL` or a pointer to a structure extending this structure.

## Description

- `robustImageAccess` enables [shaders-robust-image-access] guarantees for shader image accesses.

- `inlineUniformBlock` indicates whether the implementation supports inline uniform block descriptors. If this feature is not enabled, VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_INLINE_UNIFORM_BLOCK must not be used.

- `descriptorBindingInlineUniformBlockUpdateAfterBind` indicates whether the implementation supports updating inline uniform block descriptors after a set is bound. If this feature is not enabled, VK_DESCRIPTOR_BINDING_UPDATE_AFTER_BIND_BIT must not be used with VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_INLINE_UNIFORM_BLOCK.

- `pipelineCreationCacheControl` indicates that the implementation supports:

  - The following can be used in `Vk*PipelineCreateInfo`::`flags`:

    - VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_FAIL_ON_PIPELINE_COMPILE_REQUIRED_BIT

    - VK_PIPELINE_CREATE_EARLY_RETURN_ON_FAILURE_BIT

  - The following can be used in VkPipelineCacheCreateInfo::`flags`:

    - VK_PIPELINE_CACHE_CREATE_EXTERNALLY_SYNCHRONIZED_BIT

- `privateData` indicates whether the implementation supports private data. See Private Data.

- `shaderDemoteToHelperInvocation` indicates whether the implementation supports the SPIR-V `DemoteToHelperInvocationEXT` capability.

- `shaderTerminateInvocation` specifies whether the implementation supports SPIR-V modules that use the `SPV_KHR_terminate_invocation` extension.

- `subgroupSizeControl` indicates whether the implementation supports controlling shader subgroup sizes via the VK_PIPELINE_SHADER_STAGE_CREATE_ALLOW_VARYING_SUBGROUP_SIZE_BIT flag and the VkPipelineShaderStageRequiredSubgroupSizeCreateInfo structure.

- `computeFullSubgroups` indicates whether the implementation supports requiring full subgroups in compute , mesh, or task shaders via the VK_PIPELINE_SHADER_STAGE_CREATE_REQUIRE_FULL_SUBGROUPS_BIT flag.

- `synchronization2` indicates whether the implementation supports the new set of synchronization commands introduced in `VK_KHR_synchronization2`.

- `textureCompressionASTC_HDR` indicates whether all of the ASTC HDR compressed texture formats are supported. If this feature is enabled, then the VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_SAMPLED_IMAGE_BIT, VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_BLIT_SRC_BIT and VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_SAMPLED_IMAGE_FILTER_LINEAR_BIT features must be supported in `optimalTilingFeatures` for the following formats:

  - VK_FORMAT_ASTC_4x4_SFLOAT_BLOCK

  - VK_FORMAT_ASTC_5x4_SFLOAT_BLOCK

  - VK_FORMAT_ASTC_5x5_SFLOAT_BLOCK

  - VK_FORMAT_ASTC_6x5_SFLOAT_BLOCK

  - VK_FORMAT_ASTC_6x6_SFLOAT_BLOCK

  - VK_FORMAT_ASTC_8x5_SFLOAT_BLOCK

  - VK_FORMAT_ASTC_8x6_SFLOAT_BLOCK

  - VK_FORMAT_ASTC_8x8_SFLOAT_BLOCK

  - VK_FORMAT_ASTC_10x5_SFLOAT_BLOCK

  - VK_FORMAT_ASTC_10x6_SFLOAT_BLOCK

  - VK_FORMAT_ASTC_10x8_SFLOAT_BLOCK

  - VK_FORMAT_ASTC_10x10_SFLOAT_BLOCK

  - VK_FORMAT_ASTC_12x10_SFLOAT_BLOCK

  - VK_FORMAT_ASTC_12x12_SFLOAT_BLOCK

    To query for additional properties, or if the feature is not enabled, vkGetPhysicalDeviceFormatProperties and vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties can be used to check for supported properties of individual formats as normal.

- `shaderZeroInitializeWorkgroupMemory` specifies whether the implementation supports initializing a variable in Workgroup storage class.

- `dynamicRendering` specifies that the implementation supports dynamic render pass instances using the vkCmdBeginRendering command.

- `shaderIntegerDotProduct` specifies whether shader modules can declare the `DotProductInputAllKHR`, `DotProductInput4x8BitKHR`, `DotProductInput4x8BitPackedKHR` and `DotProductKHR` capabilities.

- `maintenance4` indicates that the implementation supports the following:

  - The application may destroy a VkPipelineLayout object immediately after using it to create another object.

  - `LocalSizeId` can be used as an alternative to `LocalSize` to specify the local workgroup size with specialization constants.

  - Images created with identical creation parameters will always have the same alignment requirements.

  - The size memory requirement of a buffer or image is never greater than that of another buffer or image created with a greater or equal size.

  - Push constants do not have to be initialized before they are dynamically accessed.

  - The interface matching rules allow a larger output vector to match with a smaller input vector, with additional values being discarded.

If the `VkPhysicalDeviceVulkan13Features` structure is included in the `pNext` chain of the VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2 structure passed to vkGetPhysicalDeviceFeatures2, it is filled in to indicate whether each corresponding feature is supported. If the application wishes to use a VkDevice with any features described by `VkPhysicalDeviceVulkan13Features`, it must add an instance of the structure, with the desired feature members set to VK_TRUE, to the `pNext` chain of VkDeviceCreateInfo when creating the VkDevice.

Valid Usage (Implicit)

- VUID-VkPhysicalDeviceVulkan13Features-sType-sType
  `sType` must be VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_VULKAN_1_3_FEATURES

Structure Chaining

Extends the structures

  - VkDeviceCreateInfo

  - VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2

## See Also

VK_VERSION_1_3, VkBool32, VkStructureType

## Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification.

This page is extracted from the Vulkan Specification. Fixes and changes should be made to the Specification, not directly.

## Copyright

Copyright 2014-2026 The Khronos Group Inc.

SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0