This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for parallelization of GPU composition with DPU topology selection. A processor may receive an indication of a plurality of application layers for composition at a first processor (e.g., a DPU) and a second processor (e.g., a GPU). The processor may select one or more first application layers of the plurality of application layers for attempted composition at the first processor and one or more second application layers of the plurality of application layers for composition at the second processor. The processor may transmit each of the one or more first application layers to the first processor for composition and each of the one or more second application layers to the second processor for composition.