C Specification

The VkPhysicalDeviceShaderCorePropertiesAMD structure is defined as:

// Provided by VK_AMD_shader_core_properties
typedef struct VkPhysicalDeviceShaderCorePropertiesAMD {
    VkStructureType    sType;
    void*              pNext;
    uint32_t           shaderEngineCount;
    uint32_t           shaderArraysPerEngineCount;
    uint32_t           computeUnitsPerShaderArray;
    uint32_t           simdPerComputeUnit;
    uint32_t           wavefrontsPerSimd;
    uint32_t           wavefrontSize;
    uint32_t           sgprsPerSimd;
    uint32_t           minSgprAllocation;
    uint32_t           maxSgprAllocation;
    uint32_t           sgprAllocationGranularity;
    uint32_t           vgprsPerSimd;
    uint32_t           minVgprAllocation;
    uint32_t           maxVgprAllocation;
    uint32_t           vgprAllocationGranularity;
} VkPhysicalDeviceShaderCorePropertiesAMD;

Members

  • sType is a VkStructureType value identifying this structure.

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

  • shaderEngineCount is an unsigned integer value indicating the number of shader engines found inside the shader core of the physical device.

  • shaderArraysPerEngineCount is an unsigned integer value indicating the number of shader arrays inside a shader engine. Each shader array has its own scan converter, set of compute units, and a render back end (color and depth attachments). Shader arrays within a shader engine share shader processor input (wave launcher) and shader export (export buffer) units. Currently, a shader engine can have one or two shader arrays.

  • computeUnitsPerShaderArray is an unsigned integer value indicating the physical number of compute units within a shader array. The active number of compute units in a shader array may be lower. A compute unit houses a set of SIMDs along with a sequencer module and a local data store.

  • simdPerComputeUnit is an unsigned integer value indicating the number of SIMDs inside a compute unit. Each SIMD processes a single instruction at a time.

  • wavefrontSize is an unsigned integer value indicating the maximum size of a subgroup.

  • sgprsPerSimd is an unsigned integer value indicating the number of physical Scalar General-Purpose Registers (SGPRs) per SIMD.

  • minSgprAllocation is an unsigned integer value indicating the minimum number of SGPRs allocated for a wave.

  • maxSgprAllocation is an unsigned integer value indicating the maximum number of SGPRs allocated for a wave.

  • sgprAllocationGranularity is an unsigned integer value indicating the granularity of SGPR allocation for a wave.

  • vgprsPerSimd is an unsigned integer value indicating the number of physical Vector General-Purpose Registers (VGPRs) per SIMD.

  • minVgprAllocation is an unsigned integer value indicating the minimum number of VGPRs allocated for a wave.

  • maxVgprAllocation is an unsigned integer value indicating the maximum number of VGPRs allocated for a wave.

  • vgprAllocationGranularity is an unsigned integer value indicating the granularity of VGPR allocation for a wave.

Description

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

Valid Usage (Implicit)

  • VUID-VkPhysicalDeviceShaderCorePropertiesAMD-sType-sType
    sType must be VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_SHADER_CORE_PROPERTIES_AMD

See Also

VK_AMD_shader_core_properties, 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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