diff --git a/tools/render-test/options.cpp b/tools/render-test/options.cpp
index 71a2c988221..0b193499d6c 100644
--- a/tools/render-test/options.cpp
+++ b/tools/render-test/options.cpp
@@ -17,40 +17,50 @@ namespace renderer_test
 {
 using namespace Slang;
 
-// Helper function to check if a feature name is valid
-static bool isValidFeatureName(
-    const UnownedStringSlice& featureName,
-    DiagnosticSink* sink,
-    SourceLoc loc)
+rhi::Feature getRenderFeatureFromName(const UnownedStringSlice& featureName)
 {
-    // WAR: Accept cooperative-matrix-2 sub-features until RHI backend supports them
-    // These features will be gracefully skipped at runtime if hardware doesn't support them
-    if (featureName.startsWith("cooperative-matrix-"))
+    // slang-rhi reports VK_NV_cooperative_matrix2 as one feature, but tests name the individual
+    // sub-features the extension provides. Resolve each of them to that single feature so a test
+    // gated on a sub-feature runs on hardware that supports the extension, rather than being
+    // skipped everywhere.
+    static const UnownedStringSlice kCooperativeMatrix2SubFeatures[] = {
+        UnownedStringSlice::fromLiteral("cooperative-matrix-block-loads"),
+        UnownedStringSlice::fromLiteral("cooperative-matrix-conversions"),
+        UnownedStringSlice::fromLiteral("cooperative-matrix-per-element-operations"),
+        UnownedStringSlice::fromLiteral("cooperative-matrix-reductions"),
+        UnownedStringSlice::fromLiteral("cooperative-matrix-tensor-addressing"),
+    };
+    for (const auto& subFeature : kCooperativeMatrix2SubFeatures)
     {
-        if (sink)
+        if (featureName == subFeature)
         {
-            sink->diagnoseRaw(
-                Severity::Warning,
-                "Using cooperative-matrix-2 feature that is not yet fully supported "
-                "in RHI backend. "
-                "Test will be skipped if hardware doesn't support it.");
+            return rhi::Feature::CooperativeMatrix2;
         }
-        return true;
     }
-#define SLANG_RHI_FEATURES_X(id, name) name,
-    static const char* kValidFeatureNames[] = {SLANG_RHI_FEATURES(SLANG_RHI_FEATURES_X)};
-#undef SLANG_RHI_FEATURES_X
 
-    static const int kFeatureCount = sizeof(kValidFeatureNames) / sizeof(kValidFeatureNames[0]);
+#define SLANG_RHI_FEATURES_X(id, name) {UnownedStringSlice::fromLiteral(name), rhi::Feature::id},
+    struct FeatureNameMapEntry
+    {
+        UnownedStringSlice name;
+        rhi::Feature feature;
+    };
+    static const FeatureNameMapEntry kFeatureNameMap[] = {SLANG_RHI_FEATURES(SLANG_RHI_FEATURES_X)};
+#undef SLANG_RHI_FEATURES_X
 
-    for (int i = 0; i < kFeatureCount; i++)
+    for (const auto& entry : kFeatureNameMap)
     {
-        if (featureName == UnownedStringSlice(kValidFeatureNames[i]))
+        if (featureName == entry.name)
         {
-            return true;
+            return entry.feature;
         }
     }
-    return false;
+    return rhi::Feature::_Count;
+}
+
+/// Return true if `featureName` names a feature the runtime requirement check can evaluate.
+static bool isValidFeatureName(const UnownedStringSlice& featureName)
+{
+    return getRenderFeatureFromName(featureName) != rhi::Feature::_Count;
 }
 
 static rhi::DeviceType _toRenderType(Slang::RenderApiType apiType)
@@ -162,7 +172,7 @@ static rhi::DeviceType _toRenderType(Slang::RenderApiType apiType)
             for (const auto& value : values)
             {
                 // Validate that the feature name is recognized
-                if (!isValidFeatureName(value, &sink, featuresArg.loc))
+                if (!isValidFeatureName(value))
                 {
                     sink.diagnose(
                         featuresArg.loc,
diff --git a/tools/render-test/options.h b/tools/render-test/options.h
index 00a4e489151..34d6a9a9157 100644
--- a/tools/render-test/options.h
+++ b/tools/render-test/options.h
@@ -114,4 +114,15 @@ struct Options
         Options& outOptions);
 };
 
+/// Return the `rhi::Feature` a `-render-feature` name refers to, or `rhi::Feature::_Count` if the
+/// name is not recognized.
+///
+/// This is the single place that maps a test's feature name onto an RHI feature, so that option
+/// parsing (which rejects unknown names) and the runtime requirement check (which decides whether
+/// to skip a test) can never disagree. Besides the names generated from `SLANG_RHI_FEATURES`, it
+/// resolves the individual `VK_NV_cooperative_matrix2` sub-feature names used by tests -- slang-rhi
+/// exposes that extension only as the single `cooperative-matrix-2` feature, so each sub-feature
+/// name maps onto it.
+rhi::Feature getRenderFeatureFromName(const Slang::UnownedStringSlice& featureName);
+
 } // namespace renderer_test
diff --git a/tools/render-test/render-test-main.cpp b/tools/render-test/render-test-main.cpp
index 68dd0fbf275..b6efc5ab0f9 100644
--- a/tools/render-test/render-test-main.cpp
+++ b/tools/render-test/render-test-main.cpp
@@ -193,25 +193,6 @@ static void _outputProfileTime(uint64_t startTicks, uint64_t endTicks)
     out.print("profile-time=%g\n", time);
 }
 
-static rhi::Feature _getFeatureFromName(const UnownedStringSlice& featureName)
-{
-    struct FeatureNameMapEntry
-    {
-        const char* name;
-        rhi::Feature feature;
-    };
-
-#define SLANG_RHI_FEATURES_X(id, name) {name, rhi::Feature::id},
-    static const FeatureNameMapEntry kFeatureNameMap[] = {SLANG_RHI_FEATURES(SLANG_RHI_FEATURES_X)};
-#undef SLANG_RHI_FEATURES_X
-
-    for (auto& entry : kFeatureNameMap)
-        if (featureName == UnownedStringSlice(entry.name))
-            return entry.feature;
-
-    return rhi::Feature::_Count;
-}
-
 class ProgramVars;
 
 struct ShaderOutputPlan
@@ -1918,7 +1899,7 @@ static SlangResult _innerMain(
 
         List<rhi::Feature> requiredFeatureList;
         for (auto& name : options.renderFeatures)
-            requiredFeatureList.add(_getFeatureFromName(name.getUnownedSlice()));
+            requiredFeatureList.add(getRenderFeatureFromName(name.getUnownedSlice()));
 
         desc.requiredFeatures = requiredFeatureList.getBuffer();
         desc.requiredFeatureCount = (int)requiredFeatureList.getCount();