diff --git a/.github/workflows/ports_unix.yml b/.github/workflows/ports_unix.yml
index 4e75172b64..dbd213cdff 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ports_unix.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ports_unix.yml
@@ -45,8 +45,6 @@ jobs:
       run: source tools/ci.sh && ci_unix_standard_build
     - name: Run main test suite
       run: source tools/ci.sh && ci_unix_standard_run_tests
-    - name: Run performance benchmarks
-      run: source tools/ci.sh && ci_unix_standard_run_perfbench
     - name: Print failures
       if: failure()
       run: tests/run-tests.py --print-failures
diff --git a/tools/ci.sh b/tools/ci.sh
index 4ae21859db..dee4b387bf 100755
--- a/tools/ci.sh
+++ b/tools/ci.sh
@@ -385,6 +385,7 @@ function ci_unix_run_tests_full_helper {
     fi
     make -C ports/unix VARIANT=$variant "$@" test_full
     (cd tests && MICROPY_CPYTHON3=python3 MICROPY_MICROPYTHON=../ports/unix/$micropython ./run-multitests.py multi_net/*.py)
+    (cd tests && MICROPY_CPYTHON3=python3 MICROPY_MICROPYTHON=../ports/unix/$micropython ./run-perfbench.py 1000 1000)
 }
 
 function ci_native_mpy_modules_build {
@@ -424,10 +425,6 @@ function ci_unix_standard_run_tests {
     ci_unix_run_tests_full_helper standard
 }
 
-function ci_unix_standard_run_perfbench {
-    (cd tests && MICROPY_CPYTHON3=python3 MICROPY_MICROPYTHON=../ports/unix/micropython ./run-perfbench.py 1000 1000)
-}
-
 function ci_unix_dev_build {
     ci_unix_build_helper VARIANT=dev
 }