VkDescriptorType(3)

# VkDescriptorType(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkDescriptorType - Specifies the type of a descriptor in a descriptor set

## C Specification

Possible descriptor types are:

    // Provided by VK_VERSION_1_0
    typedef enum VkDescriptorType {
        VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_SAMPLER = 0,
        VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_COMBINED_IMAGE_SAMPLER = 1,
        VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_SAMPLED_IMAGE = 2,
        VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_IMAGE = 3,
        VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_UNIFORM_TEXEL_BUFFER = 4,
        VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_TEXEL_BUFFER = 5,
        VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_UNIFORM_BUFFER = 6,
        VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_BUFFER = 7,
        VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_UNIFORM_BUFFER_DYNAMIC = 8,
        VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_BUFFER_DYNAMIC = 9,
        VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_INPUT_ATTACHMENT = 10,
      // Provided by VK_VERSION_1_3
        VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_INLINE_UNIFORM_BLOCK = 1000138000,
      // Provided by VK_KHR_acceleration_structure
        VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_ACCELERATION_STRUCTURE_KHR = 1000150000,
      // Provided by VK_NV_ray_tracing
        VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_ACCELERATION_STRUCTURE_NV = 1000165000,
      // Provided by VK_QCOM_image_processing
        VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_IMAGE_QCOM = 1000440000,
      // Provided by VK_QCOM_image_processing
        VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_BLOCK_MATCH_IMAGE_QCOM = 1000440001,
      // Provided by VK_ARM_tensors
        VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_TENSOR_ARM = 1000460000,
      // Provided by VK_EXT_mutable_descriptor_type
        VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_MUTABLE_EXT = 1000351000,
      // Provided by VK_NV_partitioned_acceleration_structure
        VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_PARTITIONED_ACCELERATION_STRUCTURE_NV = 1000570000,
      // Provided by VK_EXT_inline_uniform_block
        VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_INLINE_UNIFORM_BLOCK_EXT = VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_INLINE_UNIFORM_BLOCK,
      // Provided by VK_VALVE_mutable_descriptor_type
        VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_MUTABLE_VALVE = VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_MUTABLE_EXT,
    } VkDescriptorType;

## Description

- VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_SAMPLER specifies a sampler descriptor.

- VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_COMBINED_IMAGE_SAMPLER specifies a combined image sampler descriptor.

- VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_SAMPLED_IMAGE specifies a sampled image descriptor.

- VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_IMAGE specifies a storage image descriptor.

- VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_UNIFORM_TEXEL_BUFFER specifies a uniform texel buffer descriptor.

- VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_TEXEL_BUFFER specifies a storage texel buffer descriptor.

- VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_UNIFORM_BUFFER specifies a uniform buffer descriptor.

- VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_BUFFER specifies a storage buffer descriptor.

- VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_UNIFORM_BUFFER_DYNAMIC specifies a dynamic uniform buffer descriptor.

- VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_STORAGE_BUFFER_DYNAMIC specifies a dynamic storage buffer descriptor.

- VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_INPUT_ATTACHMENT specifies an input attachment descriptor.

- VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_INLINE_UNIFORM_BLOCK specifies an inline uniform block.

- VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_ACCELERATION_STRUCTURE_KHR specifies an acceleration structure descriptor.

- VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_ACCELERATION_STRUCTURE_NV specifies an acceleration structure descriptor.

- VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_MUTABLE_EXT specifies a descriptor of mutable type.

- VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_PARTITIONED_ACCELERATION_STRUCTURE_NV specifies a partitioned acceleration structure descriptor.

- VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_IMAGE_QCOM specifies a sampled weight image descriptor.

- VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_BLOCK_MATCH_IMAGE_QCOM specifies a block matching image descriptor.

- VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_TENSOR_ARM specifies a storage tensor descriptor.

## See Also

VK_VERSION_1_0, VkDescriptorGetInfoEXT, VkDescriptorPoolSize, VkDescriptorSetLayoutBinding, VkDescriptorUpdateTemplateEntry, VkImageViewHandleInfoNVX, VkMutableDescriptorTypeListEXT, VkResourceDescriptorInfoEXT, VkWriteDescriptorSet, vkGetPhysicalDeviceDescriptorSizeEXT

## 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