diff --git a/src/backends/native/meta-renderer-native.c b/src/backends/native/meta-renderer-native.c
index e15932526e40804e9aac18ff2adaa04fe27e84e6..10c6e689ad39cc33d9f3f8a3555d5a962e2fbb6e 100644
--- a/src/backends/native/meta-renderer-native.c
+++ b/src/backends/native/meta-renderer-native.c
@@ -4109,6 +4109,19 @@ choose_primary_gpu_unchecked (MetaBackend        *backend,
    */
   for (allow_sw = 0; allow_sw < 2; allow_sw++)
   {
+    /* First, consider hardware-accelerated secondary GPUs with connected
+     * outputs (like eGPUs)
+     */
+    for (l = gpus; l; l = l->next)
+      {
+        MetaGpuKms *gpu_kms = META_GPU_KMS (l->data);
+
+        if (!meta_gpu_kms_is_boot_vga (gpu_kms) &&
+            meta_gpu_kms_can_have_outputs (gpu_kms) &&
+            gpu_kms_is_hardware_rendering (renderer_native, gpu_kms))
+          return gpu_kms;
+      }
+
     /* Prefer a platform device */
     for (l = gpus; l; l = l->next)
       {