C Specification

If the fragmentShadingRateEnums feature is enabled, fragment shading rates may be specified using the VkFragmentShadingRateNV enumerated type defined as:

// Provided by VK_NV_fragment_shading_rate_enums
typedef enum VkFragmentShadingRateNV {
    VK_FRAGMENT_SHADING_RATE_1_INVOCATION_PER_PIXEL_NV = 0,
    VK_FRAGMENT_SHADING_RATE_1_INVOCATION_PER_1X2_PIXELS_NV = 1,
    VK_FRAGMENT_SHADING_RATE_1_INVOCATION_PER_2X1_PIXELS_NV = 4,
    VK_FRAGMENT_SHADING_RATE_1_INVOCATION_PER_2X2_PIXELS_NV = 5,
    VK_FRAGMENT_SHADING_RATE_1_INVOCATION_PER_2X4_PIXELS_NV = 6,
    VK_FRAGMENT_SHADING_RATE_1_INVOCATION_PER_4X2_PIXELS_NV = 9,
    VK_FRAGMENT_SHADING_RATE_1_INVOCATION_PER_4X4_PIXELS_NV = 10,
    VK_FRAGMENT_SHADING_RATE_2_INVOCATIONS_PER_PIXEL_NV = 11,
    VK_FRAGMENT_SHADING_RATE_4_INVOCATIONS_PER_PIXEL_NV = 12,
    VK_FRAGMENT_SHADING_RATE_8_INVOCATIONS_PER_PIXEL_NV = 13,
    VK_FRAGMENT_SHADING_RATE_16_INVOCATIONS_PER_PIXEL_NV = 14,
    VK_FRAGMENT_SHADING_RATE_NO_INVOCATIONS_NV = 15,
} VkFragmentShadingRateNV;

Description

To use the shading rates VK_FRAGMENT_SHADING_RATE_2_INVOCATIONS_PER_PIXEL_NV, VK_FRAGMENT_SHADING_RATE_4_INVOCATIONS_PER_PIXEL_NV, VK_FRAGMENT_SHADING_RATE_8_INVOCATIONS_PER_PIXEL_NV, and VK_FRAGMENT_SHADING_RATE_16_INVOCATIONS_PER_PIXEL_NV as a pipeline, primitive, or attachment shading rate, the supersampleFragmentShadingRates feature must be enabled. To use the shading rate VK_FRAGMENT_SHADING_RATE_NO_INVOCATIONS_NV as a pipeline, primitive, or attachment shading rate, the noInvocationFragmentShadingRates feature must be enabled.

See Also

Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification.

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