Vulkan Info is a program provided in the SDK which outputs various types of Vulkan information such as:
After downloading and installing the SDK and setting up the runtime environment (see the Getting Started documentation) you will be able to run the Vulkan Info program from a command prompt.
vulkaninfo
Executing vulkaninfo
without specifying the type of output will default to human-readable output to the console.
vulkaninfo --html
To organize output in a convenient HTML format use the --html
option. Executing vulkaninfo
with the --html
option produces a file called vulkaninfo.html
and can be found in your build directory.
vulkaninfo --json
Use the --json
option to produce DevSim-schema-compatible JSON output for your device. Additionally, JSON output can be specified with the -j
option and for multi-GPU systems, a single GPU can be targeted using the --json=
GPU-number
option where the GPU-number
indicates the GPU of interest (e.g., --json=0
). To determine the GPU number corresponding to a particular GPU, execute vulkaninfo
with the --html
option (or none at all) first; doing so will summarize all GPUs in the system. The generated configuration information can be used as input for the VK_LAYER_LUNARG_device_simulation
layer.
Use the --help
or -h
option to produce a list of all available Vulkan Info options.
vulkaninfo - Summarize Vulkan information in relation to the current environment. USAGE: ./vulkaninfo [options] OPTIONS: -h, --help Print this help. --html Produce an html version of vulkaninfo output, saved as "vulkaninfo.html" in the directory in which the command is run. -j, --json Produce a json version of vulkaninfo output to standard output. --json=<gpu-number> For a multi-gpu system, a single gpu can be targetted by specifying the gpu-number associated with the gpu of interest. This number can be determined by running vulkaninfo without any options specified. --show-formats Display the format properties of each physical device. Note: This option does not affect html or json output; they will always print format properties.
Vulkan Info can also be found as a shortcut under the Start Menu.
Start Menu -> Vulkan SDK
version
-> vulkaninfo
Note: In order to review and/or save the output produced when using Visual Studio execute vulkaninfo
with the JSON option, you will have to redirect output to a file by modifying the command line arguments in the debug options.