VkPipelineBindPoint(3)

# VkPipelineBindPoint(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkPipelineBindPoint - Specify the bind point of a pipeline object to a command buffer

## C Specification

Possible values of vkCmdBindPipeline::`pipelineBindPoint`, specifying the bind point of a pipeline object, are:

    // Provided by VK_VERSION_1_0
    typedef enum VkPipelineBindPoint {
        VK_PIPELINE_BIND_POINT_GRAPHICS = 0,
        VK_PIPELINE_BIND_POINT_COMPUTE = 1,
    #ifdef VK_ENABLE_BETA_EXTENSIONS
      // Provided by VK_AMDX_shader_enqueue
        VK_PIPELINE_BIND_POINT_EXECUTION_GRAPH_AMDX = 1000134000,
    #endif
      // Provided by VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline
        VK_PIPELINE_BIND_POINT_RAY_TRACING_KHR = 1000165000,
      // Provided by VK_HUAWEI_subpass_shading
        VK_PIPELINE_BIND_POINT_SUBPASS_SHADING_HUAWEI = 1000369003,
      // Provided by VK_ARM_data_graph
        VK_PIPELINE_BIND_POINT_DATA_GRAPH_ARM = 1000507000,
      // Provided by VK_NV_ray_tracing
        VK_PIPELINE_BIND_POINT_RAY_TRACING_NV = VK_PIPELINE_BIND_POINT_RAY_TRACING_KHR,
    } VkPipelineBindPoint;

## Description

- VK_PIPELINE_BIND_POINT_COMPUTE specifies binding as a compute pipeline.

- VK_PIPELINE_BIND_POINT_GRAPHICS specifies binding as a graphics pipeline.

- VK_PIPELINE_BIND_POINT_RAY_TRACING_KHR specifies binding as a ray tracing pipeline.

- VK_PIPELINE_BIND_POINT_SUBPASS_SHADING_HUAWEI specifies binding as a subpass shading pipeline.

- VK_PIPELINE_BIND_POINT_EXECUTION_GRAPH_AMDX specifies binding as an execution graph pipeline.

## See Also

VK_VERSION_1_0, VkDescriptorUpdateTemplateCreateInfo, VkGeneratedCommandsInfoNV, VkGeneratedCommandsMemoryRequirementsInfoNV, VkIndirectCommandsLayoutCreateInfoNV, VkPipelineIndirectDeviceAddressInfoNV, VkSubpassDescription, VkSubpassDescription2, vkCmdBindDescriptorBufferEmbeddedSamplersEXT, vkCmdBindDescriptorSets, vkCmdBindPipeline, vkCmdBindPipelineShaderGroupNV, vkCmdPushDescriptorSet, vkCmdPushDescriptorSet, vkCmdSetDescriptorBufferOffsetsEXT, vkCmdUpdatePipelineIndirectBufferNV

## 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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