VK_EXT_mesh_shader(3)

# VK_EXT_mesh_shader(3) Manual Page

## Name

VK_EXT_mesh_shader - device extension

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## Registered Extension Number

329

## Revision

1

## Ratification Status

Not ratified

## Extension and Version Dependencies

VK_KHR_spirv_1_4

## API Interactions

- Interacts with VK_NV_device_generated_commands

## SPIR-V Dependencies

- SPV_EXT_mesh_shader

## Contact

- Christoph Kubisch pixeljetstream

## Extension Proposal

VK_EXT_mesh_shader

## Other Extension Metadata

Last Modified Date

  2022-01-20

Interactions and External Dependencies

  - This extension provides API support for `GLSL_EXT_mesh_shader`

  - Interacts with Vulkan 1.1

  - Interacts with `VK_KHR_multiview`

  - Interacts with `VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate`

Contributors

  - Christoph Kubisch, NVIDIA

  - Pat Brown, NVIDIA

  - Jeff Bolz, NVIDIA

  - Daniel Koch, NVIDIA

  - Piers Daniell, NVIDIA

  - Pierre Boudier, NVIDIA

  - Patrick Mours, NVIDIA

  - David Zhao Akeley, NVIDIA

  - Kedarnath Thangudu, NVIDIA

  - Timur Kristóf, Valve

  - Hans-Kristian Arntzen, Valve

  - Philip Rebohle, Valve

  - Mike Blumenkrantz, Valve

  - Slawomir Grajewski, Intel

  - Michal Pietrasiuk, Intel

  - Mariusz Merecki, Intel

  - Tom Olson, ARM

  - Jan-Harald Fredriksen, ARM

  - Sandeep Kakarlapudi, ARM

  - Ruihao Zhang, QUALCOMM

  - Ricardo Garcia, Igalia, S.L.

  - Tobias Hector, AMD

  - Stu Smith, AMD

## Description

This extension provides a new mechanism allowing applications to generate collections of geometric primitives via programmable mesh shading. It is an alternative to the existing programmable primitive shading pipeline, which relied on generating input primitives by a fixed function assembler as well as fixed function vertex fetch.

This extension also adds support for the following SPIR-V extension in Vulkan:

- `SPV_EXT_mesh_shader`

## New Commands

- vkCmdDrawMeshTasksEXT

- vkCmdDrawMeshTasksIndirectCountEXT

- vkCmdDrawMeshTasksIndirectEXT

## New Structures

- VkDrawMeshTasksIndirectCommandEXT

- Extending VkPhysicalDeviceFeatures2, VkDeviceCreateInfo:

  - VkPhysicalDeviceMeshShaderFeaturesEXT

- Extending VkPhysicalDeviceProperties2:

  - VkPhysicalDeviceMeshShaderPropertiesEXT

## New Enum Constants

- `VK_EXT_MESH_SHADER_EXTENSION_NAME`

- `VK_EXT_MESH_SHADER_SPEC_VERSION`

- Extending VkPipelineStageFlagBits:

  - `VK_PIPELINE_STAGE_MESH_SHADER_BIT_EXT`

  - `VK_PIPELINE_STAGE_TASK_SHADER_BIT_EXT`

- Extending VkQueryPipelineStatisticFlagBits:

  - `VK_QUERY_PIPELINE_STATISTIC_MESH_SHADER_INVOCATIONS_BIT_EXT`

  - `VK_QUERY_PIPELINE_STATISTIC_TASK_SHADER_INVOCATIONS_BIT_EXT`

- Extending VkQueryType:

  - `VK_QUERY_TYPE_MESH_PRIMITIVES_GENERATED_EXT`

- Extending VkShaderStageFlagBits:

  - `VK_SHADER_STAGE_MESH_BIT_EXT`

  - `VK_SHADER_STAGE_TASK_BIT_EXT`

- Extending VkStructureType:

  - `VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_MESH_SHADER_FEATURES_EXT`

  - `VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_MESH_SHADER_PROPERTIES_EXT`

If VK_NV_device_generated_commands is supported:

- Extending VkIndirectCommandsTokenTypeNV:

  - `VK_INDIRECT_COMMANDS_TOKEN_TYPE_DRAW_MESH_TASKS_NV`

## New or Modified Built-In Variables

- CullPrimitiveEXT

- PrimitivePointIndicesEXT

- PrimitiveLineIndicesEXT

- PrimitiveTriangleIndicesEXT

- (modified)`Position`

- (modified)`PointSize`

- (modified)`ClipDistance`

- (modified)`CullDistance`

- (modified)`PrimitiveId`

- (modified)`Layer`

- (modified)`ViewportIndex`

- (modified)`NumWorkgroups`

- (modified)`WorkgroupSize`

- (modified)`WorkgroupId`

- (modified)`LocalInvocationId`

- (modified)`GlobalInvocationId`

- (modified)`LocalInvocationIndex`

- (modified)`NumSubgroups`

- (modified)`SubgroupId`

- (modified)`DrawIndex`

- (modified)`PrimitiveShadingRateKHR`

- (modified)`ViewIndex`

## New SPIR-V Capability

- `MeshShadingEXT`

## Version History

- Revision 1, 2022-03-08 (Christoph Kubisch, Daniel Koch, Patrick Mours)

  - Initial revision

## See Also

VkDrawMeshTasksIndirectCommandEXT, VkPhysicalDeviceMeshShaderFeaturesEXT, VkPhysicalDeviceMeshShaderPropertiesEXT, vkCmdDrawMeshTasksEXT, vkCmdDrawMeshTasksIndirectCountEXT, vkCmdDrawMeshTasksIndirectEXT

## Document Notes

For more information, see the Vulkan Specification

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## Copyright

Copyright 2014-2024 The Khronos Group Inc.

SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0