VkPhysicalDeviceBlendOperationAdvancedFeaturesEXT(3)

# VkPhysicalDeviceBlendOperationAdvancedFeaturesEXT(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkPhysicalDeviceBlendOperationAdvancedFeaturesEXT - Structure describing advanced blending features that can be supported by an implementation

## C Specification

The `VkPhysicalDeviceBlendOperationAdvancedFeaturesEXT` structure is defined as:

    // Provided by VK_EXT_blend_operation_advanced
    typedef struct VkPhysicalDeviceBlendOperationAdvancedFeaturesEXT {
        VkStructureType    sType;
        void*              pNext;
        VkBool32           advancedBlendCoherentOperations;
    } VkPhysicalDeviceBlendOperationAdvancedFeaturesEXT;

## 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.

- `advancedBlendCoherentOperations` specifies whether blending using advanced blend operations is guaranteed to execute atomically and in primitive order. If this is VK_TRUE, VK_ACCESS_COLOR_ATTACHMENT_READ_NONCOHERENT_BIT_EXT is treated the same as VK_ACCESS_COLOR_ATTACHMENT_READ_BIT, and advanced blending needs no additional synchronization over basic blending. If this is VK_FALSE, then memory dependencies are required to guarantee order between two advanced blending operations that occur on the same sample.

## Description

If the `VkPhysicalDeviceBlendOperationAdvancedFeaturesEXT` 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 `VkPhysicalDeviceBlendOperationAdvancedFeaturesEXT`, 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-VkPhysicalDeviceBlendOperationAdvancedFeaturesEXT-sType-sType
  `sType` must be VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_BLEND_OPERATION_ADVANCED_FEATURES_EXT

Structure Chaining

Extends the structures

  - VkDeviceCreateInfo

  - VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2

## See Also

VK_EXT_blend_operation_advanced, 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

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