C Specification

Performance counters have an associated unit. This unit describes how to interpret the performance counter result.

The performance counter unit types which may be returned in VkPerformanceCounterKHR::unit are:

// Provided by VK_KHR_performance_query
typedef enum VkPerformanceCounterUnitKHR {
    VK_PERFORMANCE_COUNTER_UNIT_GENERIC_KHR = 0,
    VK_PERFORMANCE_COUNTER_UNIT_PERCENTAGE_KHR = 1,
    VK_PERFORMANCE_COUNTER_UNIT_NANOSECONDS_KHR = 2,
    VK_PERFORMANCE_COUNTER_UNIT_BYTES_KHR = 3,
    VK_PERFORMANCE_COUNTER_UNIT_BYTES_PER_SECOND_KHR = 4,
    VK_PERFORMANCE_COUNTER_UNIT_KELVIN_KHR = 5,
    VK_PERFORMANCE_COUNTER_UNIT_WATTS_KHR = 6,
    VK_PERFORMANCE_COUNTER_UNIT_VOLTS_KHR = 7,
    VK_PERFORMANCE_COUNTER_UNIT_AMPS_KHR = 8,
    VK_PERFORMANCE_COUNTER_UNIT_HERTZ_KHR = 9,
    VK_PERFORMANCE_COUNTER_UNIT_CYCLES_KHR = 10,
} VkPerformanceCounterUnitKHR;

Description

  • VK_PERFORMANCE_COUNTER_UNIT_GENERIC_KHR - the performance counter unit is a generic data point.

  • VK_PERFORMANCE_COUNTER_UNIT_PERCENTAGE_KHR - the performance counter unit is a percentage (%).

  • VK_PERFORMANCE_COUNTER_UNIT_NANOSECONDS_KHR - the performance counter unit is a value of nanoseconds (ns).

  • VK_PERFORMANCE_COUNTER_UNIT_BYTES_KHR - the performance counter unit is a value of bytes.

  • VK_PERFORMANCE_COUNTER_UNIT_BYTES_PER_SECOND_KHR - the performance counter unit is a value of bytes/s.

  • VK_PERFORMANCE_COUNTER_UNIT_KELVIN_KHR - the performance counter unit is a temperature reported in Kelvin.

  • VK_PERFORMANCE_COUNTER_UNIT_WATTS_KHR - the performance counter unit is a value of watts (W).

  • VK_PERFORMANCE_COUNTER_UNIT_VOLTS_KHR - the performance counter unit is a value of volts (V).

  • VK_PERFORMANCE_COUNTER_UNIT_AMPS_KHR - the performance counter unit is a value of amps (A).

  • VK_PERFORMANCE_COUNTER_UNIT_HERTZ_KHR - the performance counter unit is a value of hertz (Hz).

  • VK_PERFORMANCE_COUNTER_UNIT_CYCLES_KHR - the performance counter unit is a value of cycles.

See Also

VK_KHR_performance_query, VkPerformanceCounterKHR

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

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