VkDisplayPropertiesKHR(3)

# VkDisplayPropertiesKHR(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkDisplayPropertiesKHR - Structure describing an available display device

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## C Specification

The `VkDisplayPropertiesKHR` structure is defined as:

    // Provided by VK_KHR_display
    typedef struct VkDisplayPropertiesKHR {
        VkDisplayKHR                  display;
        const char*                   displayName;
        VkExtent2D                    physicalDimensions;
        VkExtent2D                    physicalResolution;
        VkSurfaceTransformFlagsKHR    supportedTransforms;
        VkBool32                      planeReorderPossible;
        VkBool32                      persistentContent;
    } VkDisplayPropertiesKHR;

## Members

- `display` is a handle that is used to refer to the display described here. This handle will be valid for the lifetime of the Vulkan instance.

- `displayName` is `NULL` or a pointer to a null-terminated UTF-8 string containing the name of the display. Generally, this will be the name provided by the display’s EDID. If `NULL`, no suitable name is available. If not `NULL`, the string pointed to must remain accessible and unmodified as long as `display` is valid.

- `physicalDimensions` describes the physical width and height of the visible portion of the display, in millimeters.

- `physicalResolution` describes the physical, native, or preferred resolution of the display.

## Description

Note | For devices which have no natural value to return here, implementations should return the maximum resolution supported.

- `supportedTransforms` is a bitmask of VkSurfaceTransformFlagBitsKHR describing which transforms are supported by this display.

- `planeReorderPossible` tells whether the planes on this display can have their z order changed. If this is VK_TRUE, the application can re-arrange the planes on this display in any order relative to each other.

- `persistentContent` tells whether the display supports self-refresh/internal buffering. If this is true, the application can submit persistent present operations on swapchains created against this display.

Note | Persistent presents may have higher latency, and may use less power when the screen content is updated infrequently, or when only a portion of the screen needs to be updated in most frames.

## See Also

VK_KHR_display, VkBool32, VkDisplayKHR, VkDisplayProperties2KHR, VkExtent2D, VkSurfaceTransformFlagsKHR, vkGetPhysicalDeviceDisplayPropertiesKHR

## 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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