VkPipeline(3)

# VkPipeline(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkPipeline - Opaque handle to a pipeline object

## C Specification

Compute, ray tracing, and graphics pipelines are each represented by `VkPipeline` handles:

    // Provided by VK_VERSION_1_0
    VK_DEFINE_NON_DISPATCHABLE_HANDLE(VkPipeline)

## See Also

VK_DEFINE_NON_DISPATCHABLE_HANDLE, VK_VERSION_1_0, VkComputePipelineCreateInfo, VkDataGraphPipelineInfoARM, VkDataGraphPipelineSessionCreateInfoARM, VkExecutionGraphPipelineCreateInfoAMDX, VkGeneratedCommandsInfoNV, VkGeneratedCommandsMemoryRequirementsInfoNV, VkGeneratedCommandsPipelineInfoEXT, VkGraphicsPipelineCreateInfo, VkGraphicsPipelineShaderGroupsCreateInfoNV, VkIndirectExecutionSetPipelineInfoEXT, VkPipelineBinaryCreateInfoKHR, VkPipelineExecutableInfoKHR, VkPipelineIndirectDeviceAddressInfoNV, VkPipelineInfoKHR, VkPipelineLibraryCreateInfoKHR, VkRayTracingPipelineCreateInfoKHR, VkRayTracingPipelineCreateInfoNV, VkReleaseCapturedPipelineDataInfoKHR, VkWriteIndirectExecutionSetPipelineEXT, vkCmdBindPipeline, vkCmdBindPipelineShaderGroupNV, vkCmdInitializeGraphScratchMemoryAMDX, vkCmdUpdatePipelineIndirectBufferNV, vkCompileDeferredNV, vkCreateComputePipelines, vkCreateDataGraphPipelinesARM, vkCreateExecutionGraphPipelinesAMDX, vkCreateGraphicsPipelines, vkCreateRayTracingPipelinesKHR, vkCreateRayTracingPipelinesNV, vkDestroyPipeline, vkGetExecutionGraphPipelineNodeIndexAMDX, vkGetExecutionGraphPipelineScratchSizeAMDX, vkGetRayTracingCaptureReplayShaderGroupHandlesKHR, vkGetRayTracingShaderGroupHandlesKHR, vkGetRayTracingShaderGroupHandlesKHR, vkGetRayTracingShaderGroupStackSizeKHR, vkGetShaderInfoAMD

## 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.

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