C Specification

The VkPhysicalDeviceRayTracingPropertiesNV structure is defined as:

// Provided by VK_NV_ray_tracing
typedef struct VkPhysicalDeviceRayTracingPropertiesNV {
    VkStructureType    sType;
    void*              pNext;
    uint32_t           shaderGroupHandleSize;
    uint32_t           maxRecursionDepth;
    uint32_t           maxShaderGroupStride;
    uint32_t           shaderGroupBaseAlignment;
    uint64_t           maxGeometryCount;
    uint64_t           maxInstanceCount;
    uint64_t           maxTriangleCount;
    uint32_t           maxDescriptorSetAccelerationStructures;
} VkPhysicalDeviceRayTracingPropertiesNV;

Members

  • sType is a VkStructureType value identifying this structure.

  • pNext is NULL or a pointer to a structure extending this structure.

  • shaderGroupHandleSize is the size in bytes of the shader header.

  • maxRecursionDepth is the maximum number of levels of recursion allowed in a trace command.

  • maxShaderGroupStride is the maximum stride in bytes allowed between shader groups in the shader binding table.

  • shaderGroupBaseAlignment is the required alignment in bytes for the base of the shader binding table.

  • maxGeometryCount is the maximum number of geometries in the bottom level acceleration structure.

  • maxInstanceCount is the maximum number of instances in the top level acceleration structure.

  • maxTriangleCount is the maximum number of triangles in all geometries in the bottom level acceleration structure.

  • maxDescriptorSetAccelerationStructures is the maximum number of acceleration structure descriptors that are allowed in a descriptor set.

Description

Due to the fact that the geometry, instance, and triangle counts are specified at acceleration structure creation as 32-bit values, maxGeometryCount, maxInstanceCount, and maxTriangleCount must not exceed 232-1.

If the VkPhysicalDeviceRayTracingPropertiesNV structure is included in the pNext chain of the VkPhysicalDeviceProperties2 structure passed to vkGetPhysicalDeviceProperties2, it is filled in with each corresponding implementation-dependent property.

Limits specified by this structure must match those specified with the same name in VkPhysicalDeviceAccelerationStructurePropertiesKHR and VkPhysicalDeviceRayTracingPipelinePropertiesKHR.

Valid Usage (Implicit)

  • VUID-VkPhysicalDeviceRayTracingPropertiesNV-sType-sType
    sType must be VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_RAY_TRACING_PROPERTIES_NV

See Also

VK_NV_ray_tracing, 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

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