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conformance

Official certification from a standards body that a driver genuinely meets the specification.

For a graphics API like Vulkan, conformance is the formal stamp — granted by Khronos after passing an official test suite under strict rules — that a driver correctly implements the spec. It is a specific legal and technical claim, not the same as merely passing some tests locally. Only certified implementations may make it.

See also

  • conformance groupA named bundle of official test cases covering one feature area of a graphics spec.
  • conformanceVersionA Vulkan field a driver fills in to state which version of the conformance tests it is officially certified against.
  • conformanceVersion / apiVersionTwo Vulkan version fields: one declaring which API level a driver targets, the other whether it's certified for it.

Referenced by

conformance group · conformanceVersion · conformanceVersion / apiVersion