diff --git a/src/gallium/include/winsys/radeon_winsys.h b/src/gallium/include/winsys/radeon_winsys.h
index db431d5b5b0..cf9345cf966 100644
--- a/src/gallium/include/winsys/radeon_winsys.h
+++ b/src/gallium/include/winsys/radeon_winsys.h
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ enum radeon_bo_flag
   RADEON_FLAG_DISCARDABLE = (1 << 10),
   RADEON_FLAG_WINSYS_SLAB_BACKING = (1 << 11), /* only used by the winsys */
   RADEON_FLAG_GFX12_ALLOW_DCC = (1 << 12), /* allow DCC, VRAM only */
+  RADEON_FLAG_CLEAR_VRAM = (1 << 13),
 };
 
 static inline void
@@ -918,7 +919,7 @@ static inline int radeon_get_heap_index(enum radeon_bo_domain domain, enum radeo
    /* These are unsupported flags. */
    /* RADEON_FLAG_DRIVER_INTERNAL is ignored. It doesn't affect allocators. */
    if (flags & (RADEON_FLAG_NO_SUBALLOC | RADEON_FLAG_SPARSE |
-                RADEON_FLAG_DISCARDABLE))
+                RADEON_FLAG_DISCARDABLE | RADEON_FLAG_CLEAR_VRAM))
       return -1;
 
    int heap = 0;
diff --git a/src/gallium/winsys/amdgpu/drm/amdgpu_bo.c b/src/gallium/winsys/amdgpu/drm/amdgpu_bo.c
index b894813b8a3..42e1d138ac8 100644
--- a/src/gallium/winsys/amdgpu/drm/amdgpu_bo.c
+++ b/src/gallium/winsys/amdgpu/drm/amdgpu_bo.c
@@ -545,8 +545,8 @@ static struct amdgpu_winsys_bo *amdgpu_create_bo(struct amdgpu_winsys *aws,
        aws->info.drm_minor >= 47)
       request.flags |= AMDGPU_GEM_CREATE_DISCARDABLE;
 
-   if (aws->zero_all_vram_allocs &&
-       (request.preferred_heap & AMDGPU_GEM_DOMAIN_VRAM))
+   if ((flags & RADEON_FLAG_CLEAR_VRAM) || (aws->zero_all_vram_allocs &&
+        (request.preferred_heap & AMDGPU_GEM_DOMAIN_VRAM)))
       request.flags |= AMDGPU_GEM_CREATE_VRAM_CLEARED;
 
    if ((flags & RADEON_FLAG_ENCRYPTED) &&
@@ -1440,7 +1440,7 @@ no_slab:
 
    bool use_reusable_pool = !(domain & RADEON_DOMAIN_DOORBELL) &&
       (flags & RADEON_FLAG_NO_INTERPROCESS_SHARING) &&
-      !(flags & RADEON_FLAG_DISCARDABLE);
+      !(flags & (RADEON_FLAG_DISCARDABLE | RADEON_FLAG_CLEAR_VRAM));
 
    if (use_reusable_pool) {
        /* RADEON_FLAG_NO_SUBALLOC is irrelevant for the cache. */