diff --git a/source/blender/draw/intern/draw_manager.c b/source/blender/draw/intern/draw_manager.c
index 1249004eda0..864987234b0 100644
--- a/source/blender/draw/intern/draw_manager.c
+++ b/source/blender/draw/intern/draw_manager.c
@@ -1765,6 +1765,8 @@ void DRW_draw_render_loop_offscreen(struct Depsgraph *depsgraph,
                                     GPUOffScreen *ofs,
                                     GPUViewport *viewport)
 {
+  const bool is_xr_surface = ((v3d->flag & V3D_XR_SESSION_SURFACE) != 0);
+
   /* Create temporary viewport if needed or update the existing viewport. */
   GPUViewport *render_viewport = viewport;
   if (viewport == NULL) {
@@ -1774,7 +1776,7 @@ void DRW_draw_render_loop_offscreen(struct Depsgraph *depsgraph,
     drw_notify_view_update_offscreen(depsgraph, engine_type, region, v3d, render_viewport);
   }
 
-  GPU_viewport_bind_from_offscreen(render_viewport, ofs);
+  GPU_viewport_bind_from_offscreen(render_viewport, ofs, is_xr_surface);
 
   /* Just here to avoid an assert but shouldn't be required in practice. */
   GPU_framebuffer_restore();
diff --git a/source/blender/gpu/GPU_viewport.h b/source/blender/gpu/GPU_viewport.h
index 917b87efeaa..263d1d7c90f 100644
--- a/source/blender/gpu/GPU_viewport.h
+++ b/source/blender/gpu/GPU_viewport.h
@@ -79,7 +79,9 @@ void GPU_viewport_colorspace_set(GPUViewport *viewport,
 /**
  * Should be called from DRW after DRW_opengl_context_enable.
  */
-void GPU_viewport_bind_from_offscreen(GPUViewport *viewport, struct GPUOffScreen *ofs);
+void GPU_viewport_bind_from_offscreen(GPUViewport *viewport,
+                                      struct GPUOffScreen *ofs,
+                                      bool is_xr_surface);
 /**
  * Clear vars assigned from offscreen, so we don't free data owned by `GPUOffScreen`.
  */
diff --git a/source/blender/gpu/intern/gpu_viewport.c b/source/blender/gpu/intern/gpu_viewport.c
index 7a20278e5aa..2ed7994aee6 100644
--- a/source/blender/gpu/intern/gpu_viewport.c
+++ b/source/blender/gpu/intern/gpu_viewport.c
@@ -199,7 +199,9 @@ void GPU_viewport_bind(GPUViewport *viewport, int view, const rcti *rect)
   viewport->active_view = view;
 }
 
-void GPU_viewport_bind_from_offscreen(GPUViewport *viewport, struct GPUOffScreen *ofs)
+void GPU_viewport_bind_from_offscreen(GPUViewport *viewport,
+                                      struct GPUOffScreen *ofs,
+                                      bool is_xr_surface)
 {
   GPUTexture *color, *depth;
   GPUFrameBuffer *fb;
@@ -208,7 +210,13 @@ void GPU_viewport_bind_from_offscreen(GPUViewport *viewport, struct GPUOffScreen
 
   GPU_offscreen_viewport_data_get(ofs, &fb, &color, &depth);
 
-  gpu_viewport_textures_free(viewport);
+  /* XR surfaces will already check for texture size changes and free if necessary (see
+   * #wm_xr_session_surface_offscreen_ensure()), so don't free here as it has a significant
+   * performance impact (leads to texture re-creation in #gpu_viewport_textures_create() every VR
+   * drawing iteration).*/
+  if (!is_xr_surface) {
+    gpu_viewport_textures_free(viewport);
+  }
 
   /* This is the only texture we can share. */
   viewport->depth_tx = depth;