Appendix E: Layers & Extensions (Informative)
Extensions to the Vulkan API can be defined by authors, groups of authors, and the Khronos Vulkan Working Group. In order not to compromise the readability of the Vulkan Specification, the core Specification does not incorporate most extensions. The online Registry of extensions is available at URL
and allows generating versions of the Specification incorporating different extensions.
Authors creating extensions and layers must follow the mandatory procedures described in the Vulkan Documentation and Extensions document when creating extensions and layers.
The remainder of this appendix documents a set of extensions chosen when this document was built. Versions of the Specification published in the Registry include:
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Core API + mandatory extensions required of all Vulkan implementations.
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Core API + all registered and published Khronos (
KHR) extensions. -
Core API + all registered and published extensions.
Extensions are grouped as Khronos KHR, multivendor EXT, and then
alphabetically by author ID.
Within each group, extensions are listed in alphabetical order by their
name.
Extension Dependencies
Extensions which have dependencies on specific core versions or on other extensions will list such dependencies.
For core versions, the specified version must be supported at runtime. All extensions implicitly require support for Vulkan 1.0.
For a device extension, use of any device-level functionality defined by that extension requires that any extensions that extension depends on be enabled.
For any extension, use of any instance-level functionality defined by that extension requires only that any extensions that extension depends on be supported at runtime.