VkPhysicalDevicePipelineRobustnessFeatures(3)

# VkPhysicalDevicePipelineRobustnessFeatures(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkPhysicalDevicePipelineRobustnessFeatures - Structure describing whether an implementation supports robustness requests on a per-pipeline stage granularity

## C Specification

The `VkPhysicalDevicePipelineRobustnessFeatures` structure is defined as:

    // Provided by VK_VERSION_1_4
    typedef struct VkPhysicalDevicePipelineRobustnessFeatures {
        VkStructureType    sType;
        void*              pNext;
        VkBool32           pipelineRobustness;
    } VkPhysicalDevicePipelineRobustnessFeatures;

    // Provided by VK_EXT_pipeline_robustness
    // Equivalent to VkPhysicalDevicePipelineRobustnessFeatures
    typedef VkPhysicalDevicePipelineRobustnessFeatures VkPhysicalDevicePipelineRobustnessFeaturesEXT;

## Members

This structure describes the following feature:

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

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

## Description

- `pipelineRobustness` indicates that robustness can be requested on a per-pipeline-stage granularity.

Note | Enabling the `pipelineRobustness` feature may, on some platforms, incur a minor performance cost when the `robustBufferAccess` feature is not enabled, even for pipelines which do not make use of any robustness features. If robustness is not needed, the `pipelineRobustness` feature should not be enabled by an application.

If the `VkPhysicalDevicePipelineRobustnessFeatures` 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 `VkPhysicalDevicePipelineRobustnessFeatures`, 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-VkPhysicalDevicePipelineRobustnessFeatures-sType-sType
  `sType` must be VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_PIPELINE_ROBUSTNESS_FEATURES

Structure Chaining

Extends the structures

  - VkDeviceCreateInfo

  - VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2

## See Also

VK_EXT_pipeline_robustness, VK_VERSION_1_4, 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