vkCreateImage(3)

# vkCreateImage(3) Manual Page

## Name

vkCreateImage - Create a new image object

## C Specification

To create images, call:

    // Provided by VK_VERSION_1_0
    VkResult vkCreateImage(
        VkDevice                                    device,
        const VkImageCreateInfo*                    pCreateInfo,
        const VkAllocationCallbacks*                pAllocator,
        VkImage*                                    pImage);

## Parameters

- `device` is the logical device that creates the image.

- `pCreateInfo` is a pointer to a VkImageCreateInfo structure containing parameters to be used to create the image.

- `pAllocator` controls host memory allocation as described in the Memory Allocation chapter.

- `pImage` is a pointer to a VkImage handle in which the resulting image object is returned.

## Description

Valid Usage

- VUID-vkCreateImage-device-09666
  `device` must support at least one queue family with one of the VK_QUEUE_VIDEO_ENCODE_BIT_KHR, VK_QUEUE_VIDEO_DECODE_BIT_KHR, VK_QUEUE_OPTICAL_FLOW_BIT_NV, VK_QUEUE_SPARSE_BINDING_BIT, VK_QUEUE_TRANSFER_BIT, VK_QUEUE_COMPUTE_BIT, or VK_QUEUE_GRAPHICS_BIT capabilities

- VUID-vkCreateImage-flags-00939
  If the `flags` member of `pCreateInfo` includes VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_BINDING_BIT, and the `extendedSparseAddressSpace` feature is not enabled, creating this `VkImage` must not cause the total required sparse memory for all currently valid sparse resources on the device to exceed `VkPhysicalDeviceLimits`::`sparseAddressSpaceSize`

- VUID-vkCreateImage-flags-09385
  If the `flags` member of `pCreateInfo` includes VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_BINDING_BIT, the `extendedSparseAddressSpace` feature is enabled, and the `usage` member of `pCreateInfo` contains bits not in `VkPhysicalDeviceExtendedSparseAddressSpacePropertiesNV`::`extendedSparseImageUsageFlags`, creating this `VkImage` must not cause the total required sparse memory for all currently valid sparse resources on the device, excluding `VkBuffer` created with `usage` member of `pCreateInfo` containing bits in `VkPhysicalDeviceExtendedSparseAddressSpacePropertiesNV`::`extendedSparseBufferUsageFlags` and `VkImage` created with `usage` member of `pCreateInfo` containing bits in `VkPhysicalDeviceExtendedSparseAddressSpacePropertiesNV`::`extendedSparseImageUsageFlags`, to exceed `VkPhysicalDeviceLimits`::`sparseAddressSpaceSize`

- VUID-vkCreateImage-flags-09386
  If the `flags` member of `pCreateInfo` includes VK_IMAGE_CREATE_SPARSE_BINDING_BIT and the `extendedSparseAddressSpace` feature is enabled, creating this `VkImage` must not cause the total required sparse memory for all currently valid sparse resources on the device to exceed `VkPhysicalDeviceExtendedSparseAddressSpacePropertiesNV`::`extendedSparseAddressSpaceSize`

- VUID-vkCreateImage-pNext-06389
  If a VkBufferCollectionImageCreateInfoFUCHSIA has been chained to `pNext`, `pCreateInfo` must match the Sysmem chosen `VkImageCreateInfo` excepting members VkImageCreateInfo::`extent` and VkImageCreateInfo::`usage` in the match criteria

Valid Usage (Implicit)

- VUID-vkCreateImage-device-parameter
  `device` must be a valid VkDevice handle

- VUID-vkCreateImage-pCreateInfo-parameter
  `pCreateInfo` must be a valid pointer to a valid VkImageCreateInfo structure

- VUID-vkCreateImage-pAllocator-parameter
  If `pAllocator` is not `NULL`, `pAllocator` must be a valid pointer to a valid VkAllocationCallbacks structure

- VUID-vkCreateImage-pImage-parameter
  `pImage` must be a valid pointer to a VkImage handle

- VUID-vkCreateImage-device-queuecount
  The device must have been created with at least `1` queue

Return Codes

On success, this command returns

  - VK_SUCCESS

On failure, this command returns

  - VK_ERROR_COMPRESSION_EXHAUSTED_EXT

  - VK_ERROR_INVALID_OPAQUE_CAPTURE_ADDRESS_KHR

  - VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_DEVICE_MEMORY

  - VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_HOST_MEMORY

  - VK_ERROR_UNKNOWN

  - VK_ERROR_VALIDATION_FAILED

## See Also

VK_VERSION_1_0, VkAllocationCallbacks, VkDevice, VkImage, VkImageCreateInfo

## 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.

SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0