VkPhysicalDeviceShaderFloat16Int8Features

The VkPhysicalDeviceShaderFloat16Int8Features structure is defined as:

typedef struct VkPhysicalDeviceShaderFloat16Int8Features {
    VkStructureType sType;
    void* pNext;
    VkBool32 shaderFloat16;
    VkBool32 shaderInt8;
} VkPhysicalDeviceShaderFloat16Int8Features;

or the equivalent

typedef VkPhysicalDeviceShaderFloat16Int8Features VkPhysicalDeviceShaderFloat16Int8FeaturesKHR;

typedef VkPhysicalDeviceShaderFloat16Int8Features VkPhysicalDeviceFloat16Int8FeaturesKHR;

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.
• shaderFloat16 indicates whether 16-bit floats (halfs) are supported in shader code. This also indicates whether shader modules can declare the Float16 capability. However, this only enables a subset of the storage classes that SPIR-V allows for the Float16 SPIR-V capability: Declaring and using 16-bit floats in the Private, Workgroup (for non-Block variables), and Function storage classes is enabled, while declaring them in the interface storage classes (e.g., UniformConstant, Uniform, StorageBuffer, Input, Output, and PushConstant) is not enabled.
• shaderInt8 indicates whether 8-bit integers (signed and unsigned) are supported in shader code. This also indicates whether shader modules can declare the Int8 capability. However, this only enables a subset of the storage classes that SPIR-V allows for the Int8 SPIR-V capability: Declaring and using 8-bit integers in the Private, Workgroup (for non-Block variables), and Function storage classes is enabled, while declaring them in the interface storage classes (e.g., UniformConstant, Uniform, StorageBuffer, Input, Output, and PushConstant) is not enabled.

If the VkPhysicalDeviceShaderFloat16Int8Features 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 VkPhysicalDeviceShaderFloat16Int8Features, 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.