---
title: MTLBufferLayoutDescriptorArray
framework: metal
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: metal/mtlbufferlayoutdescriptorarray
---

# MTLBufferLayoutDescriptorArray

An array of buffer layout descriptor objects.

## Declaration

```swift
class MTLBufferLayoutDescriptorArray
```

## Overview

Overview An MTLBufferLayoutDescriptorArray defines the data layout and loading for compute data, using MTLBufferLayoutDescriptor instances.

## Topics

### Array accessors

- [subscript(_:)](metal/mtlbufferlayoutdescriptorarray/subscript(_:).md)

## Relationships

### Inherits From

- [NSObject](objectivec/nsobject-swift.class.md)

### Conforms To

- [CVarArg](swift/cvararg.md)
- [CustomDebugStringConvertible](swift/customdebugstringconvertible.md)
- [CustomStringConvertible](swift/customstringconvertible.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [NSObjectProtocol](objectivec/nsobjectprotocol.md)

## See Also

### Configuring compute pass inputs

- [stageInputDescriptor](metal/mtlcomputepipelinedescriptor/stageinputdescriptor.md)
- [MTLAttributeDescriptor](metal/mtlattributedescriptor.md)
- [MTLAttributeDescriptorArray](metal/mtlattributedescriptorarray.md)
- [MTLBufferLayoutDescriptor](metal/mtlbufferlayoutdescriptor.md)