diff --git a/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/intrinsic.rs b/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/intrinsic.rs
index 615295e96e116..9a968659e2fe8 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/intrinsic.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/intrinsic.rs
@@ -297,28 +297,40 @@ impl IntrinsicCallMethods<'tcx> for Builder<'a, 'll, 'tcx> {
             }
 
             sym::raw_eq => {
+                use abi::Abi::*;
                 let tp_ty = substs.type_at(0);
-                let (size, align) = self.size_and_align_of(tp_ty);
+                let layout = self.layout_of(tp_ty).layout;
+                let use_integer_compare = match layout.abi {
+                    Scalar(_) | ScalarPair(_, _) => true,
+                    Uninhabited | Vector { .. } => false,
+                    Aggregate { .. } => {
+                        // For rusty ABIs, small aggregates are actually passed
+                        // as `RegKind::Integer` (see `FnAbi::adjust_for_abi`),
+                        // so we re-use that same threshold here.
+                        layout.size <= self.data_layout().pointer_size * 2
+                    }
+                };
+
                 let a = args[0].immediate();
                 let b = args[1].immediate();
-                if size.bytes() == 0 {
+                if layout.size.bytes() == 0 {
                     self.const_bool(true)
-                } else if size > self.data_layout().pointer_size * 4 {
+                } else if use_integer_compare {
+                    let integer_ty = self.type_ix(layout.size.bits());
+                    let ptr_ty = self.type_ptr_to(integer_ty);
+                    let a_ptr = self.bitcast(a, ptr_ty);
+                    let a_val = self.load(a_ptr, layout.align.abi);
+                    let b_ptr = self.bitcast(b, ptr_ty);
+                    let b_val = self.load(b_ptr, layout.align.abi);
+                    self.icmp(IntPredicate::IntEQ, a_val, b_val)
+                } else {
                     let i8p_ty = self.type_i8p();
                     let a_ptr = self.bitcast(a, i8p_ty);
                     let b_ptr = self.bitcast(b, i8p_ty);
-                    let n = self.const_usize(size.bytes());
+                    let n = self.const_usize(layout.size.bytes());
                     let llfn = self.get_intrinsic("memcmp");
                     let cmp = self.call(llfn, &[a_ptr, b_ptr, n], None);
                     self.icmp(IntPredicate::IntEQ, cmp, self.const_i32(0))
-                } else {
-                    let integer_ty = self.type_ix(size.bits());
-                    let ptr_ty = self.type_ptr_to(integer_ty);
-                    let a_ptr = self.bitcast(a, ptr_ty);
-                    let a_val = self.load(a_ptr, align);
-                    let b_ptr = self.bitcast(b, ptr_ty);
-                    let b_val = self.load(b_ptr, align);
-                    self.icmp(IntPredicate::IntEQ, a_val, b_val)
                 }
             }
 
diff --git a/src/test/codegen/array-equality.rs b/src/test/codegen/array-equality.rs
index aa56e32e26ce8..4b60fa4b0bffa 100644
--- a/src/test/codegen/array-equality.rs
+++ b/src/test/codegen/array-equality.rs
@@ -23,6 +23,18 @@ pub fn array_eq_ref(a: &[u16; 6], b: &[u16; 6]) -> bool {
     a == b
 }
 
+// CHECK-LABEL: @array_eq_value_still_passed_by_pointer
+#[no_mangle]
+pub fn array_eq_value_still_passed_by_pointer(a: [u16; 9], b: [u16; 9]) -> bool {
+    // CHECK-NEXT: start:
+    // CHECK-NEXT: bitcast
+    // CHECK-NEXT: bitcast
+    // CHECK-NEXT: %[[CMP:.+]] = tail call i32 @{{bcmp|memcmp}}(i8* nonnull dereferenceable(18) %{{.+}}, i8* nonnull dereferenceable(18) %{{.+}}, i64 18)
+    // CHECK-NEXT: %[[EQ:.+]] = icmp eq i32 %[[CMP]], 0
+    // CHECK-NEXT: ret i1 %[[EQ]]
+    a == b
+}
+
 // CHECK-LABEL: @array_eq_long
 #[no_mangle]
 pub fn array_eq_long(a: &[u16; 1234], b: &[u16; 1234]) -> bool {