---
title: MTLVertexBufferLayoutDescriptor
framework: metal
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: metal/mtlvertexbufferlayoutdescriptor
---

# MTLVertexBufferLayoutDescriptor

An object that configures how a render pipeline fetches data to send to the vertex function.

## Declaration

```swift
class MTLVertexBufferLayoutDescriptor
```

## Topics

### Organizing the vertex buffer layout

- [stepFunction](metal/mtlvertexbufferlayoutdescriptor/stepfunction.md)
- [stepRate](metal/mtlvertexbufferlayoutdescriptor/steprate.md)
- [stride](metal/mtlvertexbufferlayoutdescriptor/stride.md)
- [MTLVertexStepFunction](metal/mtlvertexstepfunction.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)
- [NSCopying](foundation/nscopying.md)
- [NSObjectProtocol](objectivec/nsobjectprotocol.md)

## See Also

### Render pass inputs

- [MTLVertexDescriptor](metal/mtlvertexdescriptor.md)
- [MTLVertexAttributeDescriptor](metal/mtlvertexattributedescriptor.md)
- [MTLVertexAttributeDescriptorArray](metal/mtlvertexattributedescriptorarray.md)
- [MTLVertexBufferLayoutDescriptorArray](metal/mtlvertexbufferlayoutdescriptorarray.md)
- [MTLBufferLayoutStrideDynamic](metal/mtlbufferlayoutstridedynamic.md)