VkFormatProperties(3)

# VkFormatProperties(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkFormatProperties - Structure specifying image format properties

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## C Specification

The `VkFormatProperties` structure is defined as:

    // Provided by VK_VERSION_1_0
    typedef struct VkFormatProperties {
        VkFormatFeatureFlags    linearTilingFeatures;
        VkFormatFeatureFlags    optimalTilingFeatures;
        VkFormatFeatureFlags    bufferFeatures;
    } VkFormatProperties;

## Members

- `linearTilingFeatures` is a bitmask of VkFormatFeatureFlagBits specifying features supported by images created with a `tiling` parameter of VK_IMAGE_TILING_LINEAR.

- `optimalTilingFeatures` is a bitmask of VkFormatFeatureFlagBits specifying features supported by images created with a `tiling` parameter of VK_IMAGE_TILING_OPTIMAL.

- `bufferFeatures` is a bitmask of VkFormatFeatureFlagBits specifying features supported by buffers.

## Description

Note | If no format feature flags are supported, the format itself is not supported, and images of that format cannot be created.

If `format` is block-compressed, requires sampler Y′CBCR conversion, or is a depth/stencil format then `bufferFeatures` must not support any features for the format.

If `format` is not a multi-plane format then `linearTilingFeatures` and `optimalTilingFeatures` must not contain VK_FORMAT_FEATURE_DISJOINT_BIT.

## See Also

VK_VERSION_1_0, VkFormatFeatureFlags, VkFormatProperties2, vkGetPhysicalDeviceFormatProperties

## 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

Copyright 2014-2026 The Khronos Group Inc.

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