VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2(3)

# VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2(3) Manual Page

## Name

VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2 - instance extension

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## Registered Extension Number

60

## Revision

2

## Ratification Status

Ratified

## Extension and Version Dependencies

## Deprecation state

- Promoted to Vulkan 1.1

## Contact

- Jeff Bolz jeffbolznv

## Other Extension Metadata

Last Modified Date

  2017-09-05

IP Status

  No known IP claims.

Interactions and External Dependencies

  - Promoted to Vulkan 1.1 Core

Contributors

  - Jeff Bolz, NVIDIA

  - Ian Elliott, Google

## Description

This extension provides new queries for device features, device properties, and format properties that can be easily extended by other extensions, without introducing any further queries. The Vulkan 1.0 feature/limit/formatproperty structures do not include `sType`/`pNext` members. This extension wraps them in new structures with `sType`/`pNext` members, so an application can query a chain of feature/limit/formatproperty structures by constructing the chain and letting the implementation fill them in. A new command is added for each `vkGetPhysicalDevice*` command in core Vulkan 1.0. The new feature structure (and a `pNext` chain of extending structures) can also be passed in to device creation to enable features.

This extension also allows applications to use the physical-device components of device extensions before vkCreateDevice is called.

## Promotion to Vulkan 1.1

All functionality in this extension is included in core Vulkan 1.1, with the KHR suffix omitted. The original type, enum and command names are still available as aliases of the core functionality.

## New Commands

- vkGetPhysicalDeviceFeatures2KHR

- vkGetPhysicalDeviceFormatProperties2KHR

- vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties2KHR

- vkGetPhysicalDeviceMemoryProperties2KHR

- vkGetPhysicalDeviceProperties2KHR

- vkGetPhysicalDeviceQueueFamilyProperties2KHR

- vkGetPhysicalDeviceSparseImageFormatProperties2KHR

## New Structures

- VkFormatProperties2KHR

- VkImageFormatProperties2KHR

- VkPhysicalDeviceImageFormatInfo2KHR

- VkPhysicalDeviceMemoryProperties2KHR

- VkPhysicalDeviceProperties2KHR

- VkPhysicalDeviceSparseImageFormatInfo2KHR

- VkQueueFamilyProperties2KHR

- VkSparseImageFormatProperties2KHR

- Extending VkDeviceCreateInfo:

  - VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2KHR

## New Enum Constants

- `VK_KHR_GET_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_PROPERTIES_2_EXTENSION_NAME`

- `VK_KHR_GET_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_PROPERTIES_2_SPEC_VERSION`

- Extending VkStructureType:

  - `VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_FORMAT_PROPERTIES_2_KHR`

  - `VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_IMAGE_FORMAT_PROPERTIES_2_KHR`

  - `VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_FEATURES_2_KHR`

  - `VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_IMAGE_FORMAT_INFO_2_KHR`

  - `VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_MEMORY_PROPERTIES_2_KHR`

  - `VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_PROPERTIES_2_KHR`

  - `VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_SPARSE_IMAGE_FORMAT_INFO_2_KHR`

  - `VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_QUEUE_FAMILY_PROPERTIES_2_KHR`

  - `VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_SPARSE_IMAGE_FORMAT_PROPERTIES_2_KHR`

## Examples

        // Get features with a hypothetical future extension.
        VkHypotheticalExtensionFeaturesKHR hypotheticalFeatures =
        {
            VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_HYPOTHETICAL_FEATURES_KHR,                // sType
            NULL,                                                       // pNext
        };

        VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2KHR features =
        {
            VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_FEATURES_2_KHR,           // sType
            &hypotheticalFeatures,                                      // pNext
        };

        // After this call, features and hypotheticalFeatures have been filled out.
        vkGetPhysicalDeviceFeatures2KHR(physicalDevice, &features);

        // Properties/limits can be chained and queried similarly.

        // Enable some features:
        VkHypotheticalExtensionFeaturesKHR enabledHypotheticalFeatures =
        {
            VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_HYPOTHETICAL_FEATURES_KHR,                // sType
            NULL,                                                       // pNext
        };

        VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2KHR enabledFeatures =
        {
            VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_FEATURES_2_KHR,           // sType
            &enabledHypotheticalFeatures,                               // pNext
        };

        enabledFeatures.features.xyz = VK_TRUE;
        enabledHypotheticalFeatures.abc = VK_TRUE;

        VkDeviceCreateInfo deviceCreateInfo =
        {
            VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_DEVICE_CREATE_INFO,                       // sType
            &enabledFeatures,                                           // pNext
            ...
            NULL,                                                       // pEnabledFeatures
        };

        VkDevice device;
        vkCreateDevice(physicalDevice, &deviceCreateInfo, NULL, &device);

## Version History

- Revision 1, 2016-09-12 (Jeff Bolz)

  - Internal revisions

- Revision 2, 2016-11-02 (Ian Elliott)

  - Added ability for applications to use the physical-device components of device extensions before vkCreateDevice is called.

## See Also

VkFormatProperties2KHR, VkImageFormatProperties2KHR, VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2KHR, VkPhysicalDeviceImageFormatInfo2KHR, VkPhysicalDeviceMemoryProperties2KHR, VkPhysicalDeviceProperties2KHR, VkPhysicalDeviceSparseImageFormatInfo2KHR, VkQueueFamilyProperties2KHR, VkSparseImageFormatProperties2KHR, vkGetPhysicalDeviceFeatures2KHR, vkGetPhysicalDeviceFormatProperties2KHR, vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties2KHR, vkGetPhysicalDeviceMemoryProperties2KHR, vkGetPhysicalDeviceProperties2KHR, vkGetPhysicalDeviceQueueFamilyProperties2KHR, vkGetPhysicalDeviceSparseImageFormatProperties2KHR

## Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification

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## Copyright

Copyright 2014-2023 The Khronos Group Inc.

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