diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 6c300d70e..0e1f76e56 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ env:
     - MAKEJOBS=-j3
     - RUN_UNIT_TESTS=true
     - RUN_FUNCTIONAL_TESTS=true
-    - RUN_BENCH=false  # Set to true for any one job that has debug enabled, to quickly check bench is not crashing or hitting assertions
     - DOCKER_NAME_TAG=ubuntu:18.04
     - BOOST_TEST_RANDOM=1$TRAVIS_BUILD_ID
     - CCACHE_SIZE=100M
@@ -118,7 +117,6 @@ jobs:
         HOST=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
         PACKAGES="clang python3-zmq qtbase5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libssl1.0-dev libevent-dev bsdmainutils libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-chrono-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-thread-dev libdb5.3++-dev libminiupnpc-dev libzmq3-dev libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler libqrencode-dev"
         NO_DEPENDS=1
-        RUN_BENCH=true
         RUN_FUNCTIONAL_TESTS=false # Disabled for now, can be combined with the other x86_64 linux NO_DEPENDS job when functional tests pass the sanitizers
         GOAL="install"
         BITCOIN_CONFIG="--enable-zmq --with-incompatible-bdb --enable-glibc-back-compat --enable-reduce-exports --with-gui=qt5 CPPFLAGS=-DDEBUG_LOCKORDER --with-sanitizers=undefined CC=clang CXX=clang++"
diff --git a/.travis/test_06_script.sh b/.travis/test_06_script.sh
index 528d106aa..62d58ecf4 100755
--- a/.travis/test_06_script.sh
+++ b/.travis/test_06_script.sh
@@ -50,12 +50,6 @@ if [ "$RUN_UNIT_TESTS" = "true" ]; then
   END_FOLD
 fi
 
-if [ "$RUN_BENCH" = "true" ]; then
-  BEGIN_FOLD bench
-  DOCKER_EXEC LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR/depends/$HOST/lib $OUTDIR/bin/bench_bitcoin -scaling=0.001
-  END_FOLD
-fi
-
 if [ "$TRAVIS_EVENT_TYPE" = "cron" ]; then
   extended="--extended --exclude feature_pruning"
 fi
diff --git a/src/Makefile.test.include b/src/Makefile.test.include
index 4506d5dd6..a31852c94 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.test.include
+++ b/src/Makefile.test.include
@@ -169,7 +169,15 @@ CLEAN_BITCOIN_TEST = test/*.gcda test/*.gcno $(GENERATED_TEST_FILES) $(BITCOIN_T
 
 CLEANFILES += $(CLEAN_BITCOIN_TEST)
 
+if TARGET_WINDOWS
 bitcoin_test: $(TEST_BINARY)
+else
+if ENABLE_BENCH
+bitcoin_test: $(TEST_BINARY) $(BENCH_BINARY)
+else
+bitcoin_test: $(TEST_BINARY)
+endif
+endif
 
 bitcoin_test_check: $(TEST_BINARY) FORCE
 	$(MAKE) check-TESTS TESTS=$^
@@ -184,6 +192,13 @@ if BUILD_BITCOIN_TX
 endif
 	@echo "Running test/util/rpcauth-test.py..."
 	$(PYTHON) $(top_builddir)/test/util/rpcauth-test.py
+if TARGET_WINDOWS
+else
+if ENABLE_BENCH
+	@echo "Running bench/bench_bitcoin -evals=1 -scaling=0..."
+	$(BENCH_BINARY) -evals=1 -scaling=0 > /dev/null
+endif
+endif
 	$(AM_V_at)$(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) -C secp256k1 check
 if EMBEDDED_UNIVALUE
 	$(AM_V_at)$(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) -C univalue check