VK_KHR_device_address_commands

Other Extension Metadata

Last Modified Date

2026-03-10

Contributors

• Tobias Hector, AMD
• Matthew Netsch, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc
• Jan-Harald Fredriksen, Arm
• Mike Blumenkrantz, Valve
• Allan MacKinnon, Google
• Daniel Koch, NVIDIA
• Autumn Ashton, Valve
• Piers Daniell, NVIDIA
• Stuart Smith, AMD
• Caterina Shablia, Collabora
• Piotr Byszewski, Cognizant
• James Fitzpatrick, Imagination
• Daniel Story, Nintendo
• Baldur Karlsson, Valve
• Jon Leech, Khronos
• Samuel Pitoiset, Valve
• Lionel Landwerlin, Intel
• Hans-Kristian Arntzen, Valve
• Žiga Markuš, LunarG
• Spencer Fricke, Lunarg
• Per Inge Mathisen, Arm
• Vikram Kushwaha, NVIDIA
• Ralph Potter, Samsung
• Marijn Suijten, Traverse Research
• Ricard Garcia, Igalia
• Mengyang Liu, AMD
• Artem Kharytoniuk, LunarG
• Marty Johnson, Khronos
• Alyssa Rosenzweig, Valve

Description

This extension enables applications to use device addresses in place of buffer objects for most functionality.

New Commands

• vkCmdBindIndexBuffer3KHR
• vkCmdBindVertexBuffers3KHR
• vkCmdCopyImageToMemoryKHR
• vkCmdCopyMemoryKHR
• vkCmdCopyMemoryToImageKHR
• vkCmdCopyQueryPoolResultsToMemoryKHR
• vkCmdDispatchIndirect2KHR
• vkCmdDrawIndexedIndirect2KHR
• vkCmdDrawIndirect2KHR
• vkCmdFillMemoryKHR
• vkCmdUpdateMemoryKHR

If VK_KHR_draw_indirect_count or Vulkan Version 1.2 and VK_EXT_mesh_shader is supported:

• vkCmdDrawMeshTasksIndirectCount2EXT

If VK_AMD_buffer_marker is supported:

• vkCmdWriteMarkerToMemoryAMD

If VK_EXT_conditional_rendering is supported:

• vkCmdBeginConditionalRendering2EXT

If VK_EXT_mesh_shader is supported:

• vkCmdDrawMeshTasksIndirect2EXT

If VK_EXT_transform_feedback is supported:

• vkCmdBeginTransformFeedback2EXT
• vkCmdBindTransformFeedbackBuffers2EXT
• vkCmdDrawIndirectByteCount2EXT
• vkCmdEndTransformFeedback2EXT

If VK_KHR_acceleration_structure is supported:

• vkCreateAccelerationStructure2KHR

If VK_KHR_draw_indirect_count or Vulkan Version 1.2 is supported:

• vkCmdDrawIndexedIndirectCount2KHR
• vkCmdDrawIndirectCount2KHR

New Structures

• VkBindIndexBuffer3InfoKHR
• VkBindVertexBuffer3InfoKHR
• VkCopyDeviceMemoryImageInfoKHR
• VkCopyDeviceMemoryInfoKHR
• VkDeviceAddressRangeKHR
• VkDeviceMemoryCopyKHR
• VkDeviceMemoryImageCopyKHR
• VkDispatchIndirect2InfoKHR
• VkDrawIndirect2InfoKHR
• VkDrawIndirectCount2InfoKHR
• VkMemoryRangeBarrierKHR
• VkStridedDeviceAddressRangeKHR
• Extending VkDependencyInfo:
  • VkMemoryRangeBarriersInfoKHR
• Extending VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2, VkDeviceCreateInfo:
  • VkPhysicalDeviceDeviceAddressCommandsFeaturesKHR

If VK_AMD_buffer_marker is supported:

• VkMemoryMarkerInfoAMD

If VK_EXT_conditional_rendering is supported:

• VkConditionalRenderingBeginInfo2EXT

If VK_EXT_transform_feedback is supported:

• VkBindTransformFeedbackBuffer2InfoEXT

If VK_KHR_acceleration_structure is supported:

• VkAccelerationStructureCreateInfo2KHR

New Enums

• VkAddressCommandFlagBitsKHR

New Bitmasks

• VkAddressCommandFlagsKHR

New Enum Constants

• VK_KHR_DEVICE_ADDRESS_COMMANDS_EXTENSION_NAME
• VK_KHR_DEVICE_ADDRESS_COMMANDS_SPEC_VERSION
• Extending VkStructureType:
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_BIND_INDEX_BUFFER_3_INFO_KHR
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_BIND_VERTEX_BUFFER_3_INFO_KHR
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_COPY_DEVICE_MEMORY_IMAGE_INFO_KHR
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_COPY_DEVICE_MEMORY_INFO_KHR
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_DEVICE_MEMORY_COPY_KHR
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_DEVICE_MEMORY_IMAGE_COPY_KHR
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_DISPATCH_INDIRECT_2_INFO_KHR
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_DRAW_INDIRECT_2_INFO_KHR
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_DRAW_INDIRECT_COUNT_2_INFO_KHR
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_MEMORY_RANGE_BARRIERS_INFO_KHR
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_MEMORY_RANGE_BARRIER_KHR
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_DEVICE_ADDRESS_COMMANDS_FEATURES_KHR

If VK_AMD_buffer_marker is supported:

• Extending VkStructureType:
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_MEMORY_MARKER_INFO_AMD

If VK_EXT_conditional_rendering is supported:

• Extending VkStructureType:
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_CONDITIONAL_RENDERING_BEGIN_INFO_2_EXT

If VK_EXT_transform_feedback is supported:

• Extending VkAddressCommandFlagBitsKHR:
  • VK_ADDRESS_COMMAND_TRANSFORM_FEEDBACK_BUFFER_USAGE_BIT_KHR
  • VK_ADDRESS_COMMAND_UNKNOWN_TRANSFORM_FEEDBACK_BUFFER_USAGE_BIT_KHR
• Extending VkStructureType:
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_BIND_TRANSFORM_FEEDBACK_BUFFER_2_INFO_EXT

If VK_KHR_acceleration_structure is supported:

• Extending VkStructureType:
  • VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_ACCELERATION_STRUCTURE_CREATE_INFO_2_KHR

Version History

• Revision 1, 2026-03-10 (Tobias Hector)
  • Initial revision