Registered Extension Number

233

Revision

1

Ratification Status

Ratified

Extension and Version Dependencies

VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering
or
Vulkan Version 1.3

Deprecation State

Contact

Extension Proposal

VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering_local_read

Other Extension Metadata

Last Modified Date

2023-11-03

Contributors

  • Tobias Hector, AMD

  • Hans-Kristian Arntzen, Valve

  • Connor Abbott, Valve

  • Pan Gao, Huawei

  • Lionel Landwerlin, Intel

  • Shahbaz Youssefi, Google

  • Alyssa Rosenzweig, Valve

  • Jan-Harald Fredriksen, Arm

  • Mike Blumenkrantz, Valve

  • Graeme Leese, Broadcom

  • Piers Daniell, Nvidia

  • Stuart Smith, AMD

  • Daniel Story, Nintendo

  • James Fitzpatrick, Imagination

  • Piotr Byszewski, Mobica

  • Spencer Fricke, LunarG

  • Tom Olson, Arm

  • Michal Pietrasiuk, Intel

  • Matthew Netsch, Qualcomm

  • Marty Johnson, Khronos

  • Wyvern Wang, Huawei

  • Jeff Bolz, Nvidia

  • Samuel (Sheng-Wen) Huang, MediaTek

Description

This extension enables reads from attachments and resources written by previous fragment shaders within a dynamic render pass.

New Commands

New Structures

New Enum Constants

  • VK_KHR_DYNAMIC_RENDERING_LOCAL_READ_EXTENSION_NAME

  • VK_KHR_DYNAMIC_RENDERING_LOCAL_READ_SPEC_VERSION

  • Extending VkImageLayout:

    • VK_IMAGE_LAYOUT_RENDERING_LOCAL_READ_KHR

  • Extending VkStructureType:

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_DYNAMIC_RENDERING_LOCAL_READ_FEATURES_KHR

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_RENDERING_ATTACHMENT_LOCATION_INFO_KHR

    • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_RENDERING_INPUT_ATTACHMENT_INDEX_INFO_KHR

Promotion to Vulkan 1.4

Functionality in this extension is included in core Vulkan 1.4, with the KHR suffix omitted. However, Vulkan 1.4 implementations only have to support local read for storage resources and single sampled color attachments.

Support for reading depth/stencil attachments and multi-sampled attachments are respectively gated behind the new boolean dynamicRenderingLocalReadDepthStencilAttachments and dynamicRenderingLocalReadMultisampledAttachments properties, as described in the Version 1.4 appendix.

The original type, enum, and command names are still available as aliases of the core functionality.

Version History

  • Revision 1, 2023-11-03 (Tobias Hector)

    • Initial revision

See Also

No cross-references are available

Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification

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Copyright

Copyright 2014-2025 The Khronos Group Inc.

SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0