diff --git a/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectVulkan/Renderer/VkTextureManager.cpp b/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectVulkan/Renderer/VkTextureManager.cpp
index 69a2b049..322805b9 100644
--- a/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectVulkan/Renderer/VkTextureManager.cpp
+++ b/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectVulkan/Renderer/VkTextureManager.cpp
@@ -683,10 +683,39 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Backend::DirectVulkan {
         }
     }
 
+    void VkTextureManager::BeginDrawSyncScope() {
+        m_drawSyncedThisDraw.clear();
+        m_drawSyncScopeActive = true;
+    }
+
+    void VkTextureManager::EndDrawSyncScope() {
+        m_drawSyncScopeActive = false;
+        m_drawSyncedThisDraw.clear();
+    }
+
     VkTextureManager::TextureResource* VkTextureManager::SyncTextureAndGetDescriptor(MG_State::GLState::ITextureObject& texture) {
         MOBILEGL_ASSERT(m_device != VK_NULL_HANDLE, "SyncTextureAndGetDescriptor: m_device == VK_NULL_HANDLE");
 
         const TextureIdentity identity = MakeTextureIdentity(&texture);
+
+        // Per-draw memo fast path (see BeginDrawSyncScope): a texture already fully
+        // synced earlier in this draw cannot have changed since (no GL mutation runs
+        // mid-SetupDraw), so skip the heavy SyncTexture work and hand back the
+        // already-synced resource. Layout lives on the resource and is updated by the
+        // transition path, so the short-circuited resource still reflects the truth.
+        const Bool memoActive = m_drawSyncScopeActive;
+        if (memoActive) {
+            for (const TextureIdentity& synced : m_drawSyncedThisDraw) {
+                if (synced == identity) {
+                    auto cachedIt = m_textureResources.find(identity);
+                    if (cachedIt != m_textureResources.end() && cachedIt->second.image != VK_NULL_HANDLE) {
+                        return &(cachedIt->second);
+                    }
+                    break;  // resource unexpectedly gone -> fall through to a full sync
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
         auto aliveIt = m_aliveObjects.find(identity);
         if (aliveIt != m_aliveObjects.end() && aliveIt->second.expired()) {
             EraseTrackedTexture(aliveIt->first);
@@ -717,6 +746,19 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Backend::DirectVulkan {
             return nullptr;
         }
 
+        if (memoActive) {
+            Bool recorded = false;
+            for (const TextureIdentity& synced : m_drawSyncedThisDraw) {
+                if (synced == identity) {
+                    recorded = true;
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+            if (!recorded) {
+                m_drawSyncedThisDraw.push_back(identity);
+            }
+        }
+
         return &(it->second);
     }
 
diff --git a/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectVulkan/Renderer/VkTextureManager.h b/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectVulkan/Renderer/VkTextureManager.h
index 1727481f..5aca9718 100644
--- a/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectVulkan/Renderer/VkTextureManager.h
+++ b/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectVulkan/Renderer/VkTextureManager.h
@@ -200,6 +200,30 @@ public:
                                Uint32 layerCount = 1);
 
     SizeT CollectGarbage();
+
+    // Per-draw sync memo. Within a single SetupDraw the same sampled texture is
+    // resolved ~3x (SetupDraw's layout-probe loop, its post-transition loop, and
+    // again inside ResolveSamplerDescriptor). No GL texture mutation can happen
+    // mid-SetupDraw, and layout is tracked on the TextureResource independently of
+    // SyncTexture, so after the first successful sync of a texture in a draw the
+    // heavy SyncTexture work (mip-completeness/resource/view resync + dirty scan)
+    // is pure redundancy. BeginDrawSyncScope opens a window in which repeat
+    // SyncTextureAndGetDescriptor calls short-circuit to the already-synced
+    // resource; EndDrawSyncScope closes it. Use the RAII DrawSyncScope guard.
+    void BeginDrawSyncScope();
+    void EndDrawSyncScope();
+
+    // RAII guard that opens/closes a per-draw sync memo window (see above).
+    class DrawSyncScope {
+    public:
+        explicit DrawSyncScope(VkTextureManager& manager) : m_manager(manager) { m_manager.BeginDrawSyncScope(); }
+        ~DrawSyncScope() { m_manager.EndDrawSyncScope(); }
+        DrawSyncScope(const DrawSyncScope&) = delete;
+        DrawSyncScope& operator=(const DrawSyncScope&) = delete;
+    private:
+        VkTextureManager& m_manager;
+    };
+
 private:
 
     Bool SyncTexture(MG_State::GLState::ITextureObject &texture,
@@ -242,6 +266,10 @@ private:
     Uint32 m_currentFrameIndex = 0;
 
     Uint8 m_gcCounter = 0;
+    // Active only between BeginDrawSyncScope/EndDrawSyncScope; identities of
+    // textures already fully synced in the current draw (small N -> flat scan).
+    Bool m_drawSyncScopeActive = false;
+    Vector<TextureIdentity> m_drawSyncedThisDraw;
     std::unordered_map<TextureIdentity, WeakPtr<MG_State::GLState::ITextureObject>, TextureIdentityHash> m_aliveObjects;
     std::unordered_map<TextureIdentity, TextureResource, TextureIdentityHash> m_textureResources;
     Vector<Vector<TextureResource>> m_deferredReleases;
diff --git a/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectVulkan/Renderer/VulkanRenderer.cpp b/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectVulkan/Renderer/VulkanRenderer.cpp
index 2639a263..6f8535a0 100644
--- a/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectVulkan/Renderer/VulkanRenderer.cpp
+++ b/MobileGL/MG_Backend/DirectVulkan/Renderer/VulkanRenderer.cpp
@@ -3285,6 +3285,10 @@ void main() {
     Bool VulkanRenderer::SetupDraw(FrameContext::FrameData& frame, GLenum mode, Flags<DrawSetupAspect> aspects,
                                    const DrawCmdParam& drawParams,
                                    const IndexBufferView* pIndexBufferView) {
+        // Sync each sampled texture at most once across this whole draw: the layout
+        // probe loop, the post-transition loop, and ResolveSamplerDescriptor would
+        // otherwise each re-run the full SyncTexture path on the same textures.
+        VkTextureManager::DrawSyncScope drawSyncScope(*m_textureManager);
         m_textureManager->CollectGarbage();
         const auto& drawFbo =
                 MG_State::pGLContext->GetFramebufferBindingSlot(FramebufferTarget::Draw).GetBoundObject();