VkDeviceAddress(3)

# VkDeviceAddress(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkDeviceAddress - Vulkan device address type

## C Specification

VkDeviceAddress represents device buffer address values:

    // Provided by VK_VERSION_1_0
    typedef uint64_t VkDeviceAddress;

## Description

Valid Usage

- VUID-VkDeviceAddress-size-11364
  A valid VkDeviceAddress must be equal to the sum of an address retrieved from a VkBuffer via vkGetBufferDeviceAddress, and any offset in the range [0, `size`), where `size` is the value of VkBufferCreateInfo::`size` used to create that VkBuffer

- VUID-VkDeviceAddress-None-10894
  If a VkDeviceAddress was retrieved from a non-sparse buffer, that buffer must be bound completely and contiguously to a single `VkDeviceMemory` object

## See Also

VK_VERSION_1_0, VkAccelerationStructureCreateInfoKHR, VkAccelerationStructureGeometryMicromapDataKHR, VkAccelerationStructureTrianglesOpacityMicromapKHR, VkBindIndexBufferIndirectCommandEXT, VkBindIndexBufferIndirectCommandNV, VkBindPipelineIndirectCommandNV, VkBindVertexBufferIndirectCommandEXT, VkBindVertexBufferIndirectCommandNV, VkBufferDeviceAddressCreateInfoEXT, VkBuildPartitionedAccelerationStructureInfoNV, VkClusterAccelerationStructureBuildClustersBottomLevelInfoNV, VkClusterAccelerationStructureBuildTriangleClusterInfoNV, VkClusterAccelerationStructureBuildTriangleClusterTemplateInfoNV, VkClusterAccelerationStructureCommandsInfoNV, VkClusterAccelerationStructureGetTemplateIndicesInfoNV, VkClusterAccelerationStructureInstantiateClusterInfoNV, VkClusterAccelerationStructureMoveObjectsInfoNV, VkComputePipelineIndirectBufferInfoNV, VkCopyMemoryIndirectCommandKHR, VkCopyMemoryToImageIndirectCommandKHR, VkDecompressMemoryRegionEXT, VkDecompressMemoryRegionNV, VkDescriptorAddressInfoEXT, VkDescriptorBufferBindingInfoEXT, VkDescriptorDataEXT, VkDeviceAddressBindingCallbackDataEXT, VkDeviceAddressRangeKHR, VkDeviceFaultAddressInfoKHR, VkDeviceOrHostAddressConstAMDX, VkDeviceOrHostAddressConstKHR, VkDeviceOrHostAddressKHR, VkDrawIndirectCountIndirectCommandEXT, VkGeneratedCommandsInfoEXT, VkImageViewAddressPropertiesNVX, VkMicromapCreateInfoEXT, VkPartitionedAccelerationStructureUpdateInstanceDataNV, VkPartitionedAccelerationStructureWriteInstanceDataNV, VkRenderPassPerformanceCountersByRegionBeginInfoARM, VkStridedDeviceAddressNV, VkStridedDeviceAddressRangeKHR, VkStridedDeviceAddressRegionKHR, VkTraceRaysIndirectCommand2KHR, VkWriteDescriptorSetPartitionedAccelerationStructureNV, vkCmdBuildAccelerationStructuresIndirectKHR, vkCmdCopyMemoryIndirectNV, vkCmdCopyMemoryToImageIndirectNV, vkCmdDecompressMemoryIndirectCountEXT, vkCmdDecompressMemoryIndirectCountNV, vkCmdDispatchGraphAMDX, vkCmdDispatchGraphIndirectAMDX, vkCmdDispatchGraphIndirectCountAMDX, vkCmdInitializeGraphScratchMemoryAMDX, vkCmdTraceRaysIndirect2KHR, vkCmdTraceRaysIndirectKHR

## 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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