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title: 'Copying Images on the Host in Vulkan'
url: 'https://vulkan.org/blog/copying-images-on-the-host-in-vulkan'
markdown: 'https://vulkan.org/blog/copying-images-on-the-host-in-vulkan.md'
date: '2023-08-23'
---

#  Copying Images on the Host in Vulkan 

  August 23rd at 9:07am

 The Vulkan Working Group has released the VK_EXT_host_image_copy extension, allowing copies to and from images to be done on the host rather than the device. 

 [ Read More  ](https://www.khronos.org/blog/copying-images-on-the-host-in-vulkan)

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