diff --git a/src/dawn_native/vulkan/SwapChainVk.cpp b/src/dawn_native/vulkan/SwapChainVk.cpp
index ad88c9d6a3..8d0804b013 100644
--- a/src/dawn_native/vulkan/SwapChainVk.cpp
+++ b/src/dawn_native/vulkan/SwapChainVk.cpp
@@ -463,11 +463,15 @@ namespace dawn_native { namespace vulkan {
 
         switch (result) {
             case VK_SUCCESS:
+            // VK_SUBOPTIMAL_KHR means "a swapchain no longer matches the surface properties
+            // exactly, but can still be used to present to the surface successfully", so we
+            // can also treat it as a "success" error code of vkQueuePresentKHR().
+            case VK_SUBOPTIMAL_KHR:
                 return {};
 
+            // This present cannot be recovered. Re-initialize the VkSwapchain so that future
+            // presents work..
             case VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_DATE_KHR:
-                // This present cannot be recovered. Re-initialize the VkSwapchain so that future
-                // presents work..
                 return Initialize(this);
 
             // TODO(cwallez@chromium.org): Allow losing the surface at Dawn's API level?