diff --git a/gcc/config/aarch64/aarch64.c b/gcc/config/aarch64/aarch64.c
index 67b4c91dbe4807efe463a89fa5f522caa064a7f4..70ddd70556fab93e08166bb55135517e6d65ccc0 100644
--- a/gcc/config/aarch64/aarch64.c
+++ b/gcc/config/aarch64/aarch64.c
@@ -17421,10 +17421,11 @@ aarch64_preferred_simd_mode (scalar_mode mode)
 {
   /* Take into account explicit auto-vectorization ISA preferences through
      aarch64_cmp_autovec_modes.  */
-  poly_int64 bits
-    = (TARGET_SVE && aarch64_cmp_autovec_modes (VNx16QImode, V16QImode))
-       ? BITS_PER_SVE_VECTOR : 128;
-  return aarch64_simd_container_mode (mode, bits);
+  if (TARGET_SVE && aarch64_cmp_autovec_modes (VNx16QImode, V16QImode))
+    return aarch64_full_sve_mode (mode).else_mode (word_mode);
+  if (TARGET_SIMD)
+    return aarch64_vq_mode (mode).else_mode (word_mode);
+  return word_mode;
 }
 
 /* Return a list of possible vector sizes for the vectorizer