diff --git a/src/x64/assembler-x64.cc b/src/x64/assembler-x64.cc
index 57d40f7946..eee1584cf1 100644
--- a/src/x64/assembler-x64.cc
+++ b/src/x64/assembler-x64.cc
@@ -150,9 +150,8 @@ void CpuFeatures::Probe() {
   found_by_runtime_probing_only_
       = probed_features & ~kDefaultCpuFeatures & ~platform_features;
 
-  // SSE2 and CMOV must be available on an X64 CPU.
+  // CMOV must be available on an X64 CPU.
   ASSERT(IsSupported(CPUID));
-  ASSERT(IsSupported(SSE2));
   ASSERT(IsSupported(CMOV));
 
   delete memory;
diff --git a/src/x64/assembler-x64.h b/src/x64/assembler-x64.h
index 49a57e6929..13f269f5df 100644
--- a/src/x64/assembler-x64.h
+++ b/src/x64/assembler-x64.h
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ class Operand BASE_EMBEDDED {
 //     CpuFeatureScope fscope(assembler, SSE3);
 //     // Generate SSE3 floating point code.
 //   } else {
-//     // Generate standard x87 or SSE2 floating point code.
+//     // Generate standard SSE2 floating point code.
 //   }
 class CpuFeatures : public AllStatic {
  public:
@@ -459,7 +459,6 @@ class CpuFeatures : public AllStatic {
   // Check whether a feature is supported by the target CPU.
   static bool IsSupported(CpuFeature f) {
     ASSERT(initialized_);
-    if (f == SSE2 && !FLAG_enable_sse2) return false;
     if (f == SSE3 && !FLAG_enable_sse3) return false;
     if (f == SSE4_1 && !FLAG_enable_sse4_1) return false;
     if (f == CMOV && !FLAG_enable_cmov) return false;
@@ -480,11 +479,11 @@ class CpuFeatures : public AllStatic {
   }
 
  private:
-  // Safe defaults include SSE2 and CMOV for X64. It is always available, if
+  // Safe defaults include CMOV for X64. It is always available, if
   // anyone checks, but they shouldn't need to check.
   // The required user mode extensions in X64 are (from AMD64 ABI Table A.1):
   //   fpu, tsc, cx8, cmov, mmx, sse, sse2, fxsr, syscall
-  static const uint64_t kDefaultCpuFeatures = (1 << SSE2 | 1 << CMOV);
+  static const uint64_t kDefaultCpuFeatures = (1 << CMOV);
 
 #ifdef DEBUG
   static bool initialized_;
diff --git a/src/x64/macro-assembler-x64.cc b/src/x64/macro-assembler-x64.cc
index 6c1c19df3e..58659241a6 100644
--- a/src/x64/macro-assembler-x64.cc
+++ b/src/x64/macro-assembler-x64.cc
@@ -899,7 +899,6 @@ void MacroAssembler::PushCallerSaved(SaveFPRegsMode fp_mode,
   }
   // R12 to r15 are callee save on all platforms.
   if (fp_mode == kSaveFPRegs) {
-    CpuFeatureScope scope(this, SSE2);
     subq(rsp, Immediate(kDoubleSize * XMMRegister::kMaxNumRegisters));
     for (int i = 0; i < XMMRegister::kMaxNumRegisters; i++) {
       XMMRegister reg = XMMRegister::from_code(i);
@@ -914,7 +913,6 @@ void MacroAssembler::PopCallerSaved(SaveFPRegsMode fp_mode,
                                     Register exclusion2,
                                     Register exclusion3) {
   if (fp_mode == kSaveFPRegs) {
-    CpuFeatureScope scope(this, SSE2);
     for (int i = 0; i < XMMRegister::kMaxNumRegisters; i++) {
       XMMRegister reg = XMMRegister::from_code(i);
       movsd(reg, Operand(rsp, i * kDoubleSize));