diff --git a/src/gui/rhi/qrhivulkan.cpp b/src/gui/rhi/qrhivulkan.cpp
index 9d217a3bfdd..d0528fd7c75 100644
--- a/src/gui/rhi/qrhivulkan.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/rhi/qrhivulkan.cpp
@@ -1017,9 +1017,37 @@ bool QRhiVulkan::create(QRhi::Flags flags)
         allocatorInfo.device = dev;
         allocatorInfo.pVulkanFunctions = &funcs;
         allocatorInfo.instance = inst->vkInstance();
-        allocatorInfo.vulkanApiVersion = VK_MAKE_VERSION(caps.apiVersion.majorVersion(),
-                                                         caps.apiVersion.minorVersion(),
-                                                         caps.apiVersion.microVersion());
+
+        // Logic would dictate setting allocatorInfo.vulkanApiVersion to caps.apiVersion.
+        // However, VMA has asserts to test if the header version Qt was built with is
+        // older than the runtime version. This is nice, but a bit unnecessary (in Qt we'd
+        // rather prefer losing the affected features automatically, and perhaps printing
+        // a warning, instead of aborting the application). Restrict the runtime version
+        // passed in based on the preprocessor macro to keep VMA happy.
+#ifdef VK_VERSION_1_4
+        if (caps.apiVersion >= QVersionNumber(1, 4))
+            allocatorInfo.vulkanApiVersion = VK_API_VERSION_1_4;
+        else
+#endif
+#ifdef VK_VERSION_1_3
+        if (caps.apiVersion >= QVersionNumber(1, 3))
+            allocatorInfo.vulkanApiVersion = VK_API_VERSION_1_3;
+        else
+#endif
+#ifdef VK_VERSION_1_2
+        if (caps.apiVersion >= QVersionNumber(1, 2))
+            allocatorInfo.vulkanApiVersion = VK_API_VERSION_1_2;
+        else
+#endif
+#ifdef VK_VERSION_1_1
+        if (caps.apiVersion >= QVersionNumber(1, 1))
+            allocatorInfo.vulkanApiVersion = VK_API_VERSION_1_1;
+        else
+#endif
+#ifdef VK_VERSION_1_0
+        allocatorInfo.vulkanApiVersion = VK_API_VERSION_1_0;
+#endif
+
         VmaAllocator vmaallocator;
         VkResult err = vmaCreateAllocator(&allocatorInfo, &vmaallocator);
         if (err != VK_SUCCESS) {