VkPhysicalDeviceAccelerationStructureFeaturesKHR(3)

# VkPhysicalDeviceAccelerationStructureFeaturesKHR(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkPhysicalDeviceAccelerationStructureFeaturesKHR - Structure describing the acceleration structure features that can be supported by an implementation

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## C Specification

The `VkPhysicalDeviceAccelerationStructureFeaturesKHR` structure is defined as:

    // Provided by VK_KHR_acceleration_structure
    typedef struct VkPhysicalDeviceAccelerationStructureFeaturesKHR {
        VkStructureType    sType;
        void*              pNext;
        VkBool32           accelerationStructure;
        VkBool32           accelerationStructureCaptureReplay;
        VkBool32           accelerationStructureIndirectBuild;
        VkBool32           accelerationStructureHostCommands;
        VkBool32           descriptorBindingAccelerationStructureUpdateAfterBind;
    } VkPhysicalDeviceAccelerationStructureFeaturesKHR;

## Members

This structure describes the following features:

- `sType` is a VkStructureType value identifying this structure.

- `pNext` is `NULL` or a pointer to a structure extending this structure.

- `accelerationStructure` indicates whether the implementation supports the acceleration structure functionality. See Acceleration Structures.

- `accelerationStructureCaptureReplay` indicates whether the implementation supports saving and reusing acceleration structure device addresses, e.g. for trace capture and replay.

- `accelerationStructureIndirectBuild` indicates whether the implementation supports indirect acceleration structure build commands, e.g. vkCmdBuildAccelerationStructuresIndirectKHR.

- `accelerationStructureHostCommands` indicates whether the implementation supports host side acceleration structure commands, e.g. vkBuildAccelerationStructuresKHR, vkCopyAccelerationStructureKHR, vkCopyAccelerationStructureToMemoryKHR, vkCopyMemoryToAccelerationStructureKHR, vkWriteAccelerationStructuresPropertiesKHR.

- `descriptorBindingAccelerationStructureUpdateAfterBind` indicates whether the implementation supports updating acceleration structure descriptors after a set is bound. If this feature is not enabled, `VK_DESCRIPTOR_BINDING_UPDATE_AFTER_BIND_BIT` must not be used with `VK_DESCRIPTOR_TYPE_ACCELERATION_STRUCTURE_KHR`.

## Description

If the `VkPhysicalDeviceAccelerationStructureFeaturesKHR` 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 `VkPhysicalDeviceAccelerationStructureFeaturesKHR`, 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-VkPhysicalDeviceAccelerationStructureFeaturesKHR-sType-sType
  `sType` must be `VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_ACCELERATION_STRUCTURE_FEATURES_KHR`

## See Also

VK_KHR_acceleration_structure, 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

Copyright 2014-2025 The Khronos Group Inc.

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