# VkBuffer(3) Manual Page

## Name

VkBuffer - Opaque handle to a buffer object

## C Specification

Buffers represent linear arrays of data which are used for various purposes by binding them to a graphics or compute pipeline via descriptor sets or via certain commands, or by directly specifying them as parameters to certain commands.

Buffers are represented by `VkBuffer` handles:

    VK_DEFINE_NON_DISPATCHABLE_HANDLE(VkBuffer)

## Description

## See Also

VkBindBufferMemoryInfo, VkBufferDeviceAddressInfo, VkBufferMemoryBarrier, VkBufferMemoryRequirementsInfo2, VkBufferViewCreateInfo, VkConditionalRenderingBeginInfoEXT, VkDedicatedAllocationMemoryAllocateInfoNV, VkDescriptorBufferInfo, VkGeneratedCommandsInfoNV, VkGeometryAABBNV, VkGeometryTrianglesNV, VkIndirectCommandsStreamNV, VkMemoryDedicatedAllocateInfo, VkSparseBufferMemoryBindInfo, VkStridedBufferRegionKHR, vkBindBufferMemory, vkCmdBeginTransformFeedbackEXT, vkCmdBindIndexBuffer, vkCmdBindTransformFeedbackBuffersEXT, vkCmdBindVertexBuffers, vkCmdBuildAccelerationStructureIndirectKHR, vkCmdBuildAccelerationStructureNV, vkCmdCopyBuffer, vkCmdCopyBufferToImage, vkCmdCopyImageToBuffer, vkCmdCopyQueryPoolResults, vkCmdDispatchIndirect, vkCmdDrawIndexedIndirect, vkCmdDrawIndexedIndirectCount, vkCmdDrawIndexedIndirectCountAMD, vkCmdDrawIndexedIndirectCountKHR, vkCmdDrawIndirect, vkCmdDrawIndirectByteCountEXT, vkCmdDrawIndirectCount, vkCmdDrawIndirectCountAMD, vkCmdDrawIndirectCountKHR, vkCmdDrawMeshTasksIndirectCountNV, vkCmdDrawMeshTasksIndirectNV, vkCmdEndTransformFeedbackEXT, vkCmdFillBuffer, vkCmdTraceRaysIndirectKHR, vkCmdTraceRaysNV, vkCmdUpdateBuffer, vkCmdWriteBufferMarkerAMD, vkCreateBuffer, vkDestroyBuffer, vkGetBufferMemoryRequirements

## 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 (c) 2014-2020 Khronos Group. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.