diff --git a/src/coreclr/src/jit/codegenxarch.cpp b/src/coreclr/src/jit/codegenxarch.cpp
index 66bc4fe486a3b5..e9e37548eb6c16 100644
--- a/src/coreclr/src/jit/codegenxarch.cpp
+++ b/src/coreclr/src/jit/codegenxarch.cpp
@@ -3022,11 +3022,11 @@ void CodeGen::genCodeForInitBlkUnroll(GenTreeBlk* node)
         {
             if (dstLclNum != BAD_VAR_NUM)
             {
-                emit->emitIns_S_R(INS_movdqu, EA_ATTR(regSize), srcXmmReg, dstLclNum, dstOffset);
+                emit->emitIns_S_R(INS_movups, EA_ATTR(regSize), srcXmmReg, dstLclNum, dstOffset);
             }
             else
             {
-                emit->emitIns_ARX_R(INS_movdqu, EA_ATTR(regSize), srcXmmReg, dstAddrBaseReg, dstAddrIndexReg,
+                emit->emitIns_ARX_R(INS_movups, EA_ATTR(regSize), srcXmmReg, dstAddrBaseReg, dstAddrIndexReg,
                                     dstAddrIndexScale, dstOffset);
             }
         }
@@ -3221,21 +3221,21 @@ void CodeGen::genCodeForCpBlkUnroll(GenTreeBlk* node)
         {
             if (srcLclNum != BAD_VAR_NUM)
             {
-                emit->emitIns_R_S(INS_movdqu, EA_ATTR(regSize), tempReg, srcLclNum, srcOffset);
+                emit->emitIns_R_S(INS_movups, EA_ATTR(regSize), tempReg, srcLclNum, srcOffset);
             }
             else
             {
-                emit->emitIns_R_ARX(INS_movdqu, EA_ATTR(regSize), tempReg, srcAddrBaseReg, srcAddrIndexReg,
+                emit->emitIns_R_ARX(INS_movups, EA_ATTR(regSize), tempReg, srcAddrBaseReg, srcAddrIndexReg,
                                     srcAddrIndexScale, srcOffset);
             }
 
             if (dstLclNum != BAD_VAR_NUM)
             {
-                emit->emitIns_S_R(INS_movdqu, EA_ATTR(regSize), tempReg, dstLclNum, dstOffset);
+                emit->emitIns_S_R(INS_movups, EA_ATTR(regSize), tempReg, dstLclNum, dstOffset);
             }
             else
             {
-                emit->emitIns_ARX_R(INS_movdqu, EA_ATTR(regSize), tempReg, dstAddrBaseReg, dstAddrIndexReg,
+                emit->emitIns_ARX_R(INS_movups, EA_ATTR(regSize), tempReg, dstAddrBaseReg, dstAddrIndexReg,
                                     dstAddrIndexScale, dstOffset);
             }
         }
diff --git a/src/coreclr/src/jit/emitxarch.cpp b/src/coreclr/src/jit/emitxarch.cpp
index 90b254f00d28fc..816fb626946031 100644
--- a/src/coreclr/src/jit/emitxarch.cpp
+++ b/src/coreclr/src/jit/emitxarch.cpp
@@ -14353,6 +14353,10 @@ emitter::insExecutionCharacteristics emitter::getInsExecutionCharacteristics(ins
 
         case INS_movdqa:
         case INS_movdqu:
+        case INS_movaps:
+        case INS_movups:
+        case INS_movapd:
+        case INS_movupd:
             if (memAccessKind == PERFSCORE_MEMORY_NONE)
             {
                 // ins   reg, reg
@@ -14537,28 +14541,6 @@ emitter::insExecutionCharacteristics emitter::getInsExecutionCharacteristics(ins
             result.insLatency += PERFSCORE_LATENCY_5C;
             break;
 
-        case INS_movaps:
-        case INS_movups:
-        case INS_movapd:
-        case INS_movupd:
-            if (memAccessKind == PERFSCORE_MEMORY_NONE)
-            {
-                result.insThroughput = PERFSCORE_THROUGHPUT_4X;
-                result.insLatency    = PERFSCORE_LATENCY_1C;
-            }
-            else if (memAccessKind == PERFSCORE_MEMORY_READ)
-            {
-                result.insThroughput = PERFSCORE_THROUGHPUT_2X;
-                result.insLatency += PERFSCORE_LATENCY_2C;
-            }
-            else
-            {
-                assert(memAccessKind == PERFSCORE_MEMORY_WRITE);
-                result.insThroughput = PERFSCORE_THROUGHPUT_1C;
-                result.insLatency += PERFSCORE_LATENCY_3C;
-            }
-            break;
-
         case INS_paddb:
         case INS_psubb:
         case INS_paddw: