---
name: "supportedImageFormats"
section: "3clc"
platform: "linux"
package: "opencl-1.2-man-doc"
version: "1.0~svn33624-5.1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/supportedImageFormats"
---

# supportedImageFormats(3clc)

Supported Image Formats

## NAME

Supported\_Image\_Formats - Supported Image Formats

## DESCRIPTION

For read-write or write-only 2D and 3D images, the minimum list of supported image formats is given by the table below:

| | | |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **image\_num\_channels** | **image\_channel\_order** | **image\_channel\_data\_type** |
| 4 | **CL\_RGBA** | **CL\_UNORM\_INT8** **CL\_UNORM\_INT16** **CL\_SIGNED\_INT8** **CL\_SIGNED\_INT16** **CL\_SIGNED\_INT32** **CL\_UNSIGNED\_INT8** **CL\_UNSIGNED\_INT16** **CL\_UNSIGNED\_INT32** **CL\_HALF\_FLOAT** **CL\_FLOAT** |
| 4 | **CL\_BGRA** | **CL\_UNORM\_INT8** |

## SPECIFICATION

**OpenCL Specification**\[1\]

## SEE ALSO

[**EXTENSION**(3clc)](/EXTENSION/3clc.md), [**cl\_image\_format**(3clc)](/cl_image_format/3clc.md), [**cl\_khr\_3d\_image\_writes**(3clc)](/cl_khr_3d_image_writes/3clc.md), [**clGetSupportedImageFormats**(3clc)](/clGetSupportedImageFormats/3clc.md)

## AUTHORS

**The Khronos Group**

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2007-2011 The Khronos Group Inc.\
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and/or associated documentation files (the "Materials"), to deal in the Materials without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Materials, and to permit persons to whom the Materials are furnished to do so, subject to the condition that this copyright notice and permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Materials.

## NOTES

- 1\.

  OpenCL Specification

  page 97, section 5.3.2.1 - Supported Image Formats