Aspects described herein are directed to leveraging multiple graphics processors, by a virtual GPU manager, to optimize the rendering of graphics in either a desktop or virtual desktop environment. The virtual GPU manager may enumerate all available physical GPUs, query performance variables including processing capacity of each of the available physical GPUs, and classify each of the physical GPUs based on the queried performance variables. Further, the virtual GPU manager may generate a logical GPU corresponding to one or more of the available physical GPUs. The virtual GPU manager may distribute graphics rendering requests across each of the plurality of available physical GPUs by way of the logical GPU.