diff --git a/scripts/verify-baseline.ts b/scripts/verify-baseline.ts
index 11d7256b2a36..3f315e7c4c18 100644
--- a/scripts/verify-baseline.ts
+++ b/scripts/verify-baseline.ts
@@ -237,7 +237,10 @@ if (values["skip-emulation"]) {
 } else {
   // Phase 1: SIMD code path verification
   const simdTestPath = join(repoRoot, "test", "js", "bun", "jsc-stress", "fixtures", "simd-baseline.test.ts");
-  await runTest("SIMD baseline tests", ["test", simdTestPath], { live: true });
+  // The default per-test timeout (5 s) assumes native speed. Intel SDE runs this file hundreds of
+  // times slower, so the emulated run gets a per-test timeout of its own.
+  const emulatedTestTimeoutMs = 90_000;
+  await runTest("SIMD baseline tests", ["test", `--timeout=${emulatedTestTimeoutMs}`, simdTestPath], { live: true });
 
   const aotDir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "verify-baseline-aot-"));
   const aotProgram = join(aotDir, "baseline-cpu.ts");