diff --git a/src/Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Core/Formatters/MediaTypeEncoding.cs b/src/Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Core/Formatters/MediaTypeEncoding.cs
index a8da6ae7a1..c516f92f49 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Core/Formatters/MediaTypeEncoding.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Core/Formatters/MediaTypeEncoding.cs
@@ -69,8 +69,13 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Formatters
         public static string ReplaceEncoding(StringSegment mediaType, Encoding encoding)
         {
             var parsedMediaType = MediaTypeHeaderValue.Parse(mediaType.Value);
-            parsedMediaType.Encoding = encoding;
 
+            if (string.Equals(parsedMediaType.Encoding?.WebName, encoding?.WebName, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+            {
+                return mediaType.Value;
+            }
+
+            parsedMediaType.Encoding = encoding;
             return parsedMediaType.ToString();
         }
 
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Core/Formatters/OutputFormatter.cs b/src/Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Core/Formatters/OutputFormatter.cs
index 41a8d9e57d..9d538122ef 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Core/Formatters/OutputFormatter.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Core/Formatters/OutputFormatter.cs
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Formatters
     /// </summary>
     public abstract class OutputFormatter : IOutputFormatter, IApiResponseFormatMetadataProvider
     {
+        private IDictionary<string, string> _outputMediaTypeCache;
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="OutputFormatter"/> class.
         /// </summary>
@@ -40,6 +42,28 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Formatters
         /// </summary>
         public MediaTypeCollection SupportedMediaTypes { get; }
 
+        private IDictionary<string, string> OutputMediaTypeCache
+        {
+            get
+            {
+                if (_outputMediaTypeCache == null)
+                {
+                    var cache = new Dictionary<string, string>();
+                    foreach (var mediaType in SupportedMediaTypes)
+                    {
+                        cache.Add(mediaType, MediaTypeEncoding.ReplaceEncoding(mediaType, Encoding.UTF8));
+                    }
+
+                    // Safe race condition, worst case scenario we initialize the field multiple times with dictionaries containing
+                    // the same values.
+                    _outputMediaTypeCache = cache;
+                }
+
+                return _outputMediaTypeCache;
+            }
+        }
+
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Returns a value indicating whether or not the given type can be written by this serializer.
         /// </summary>
@@ -244,31 +268,15 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Formatters
         /// <returns>A task which can write the response body.</returns>
         public abstract Task WriteResponseBodyAsync(OutputFormatterWriteContext context);
 
-        /// <summary>
-        /// Adds or replaces the charset parameter in a given <paramref name="mediaType"/> with the
-        /// given <paramref name="encoding"/>.
-        /// </summary>
-        /// <param name="mediaType">The <see cref="StringSegment"/> with the media type.</param>
-        /// <param name="encoding">
-        /// The <see cref="Encoding"/> to add or replace in the <paramref name="mediaType"/>.
-        /// </param>
-        /// <returns>The mediaType with the given encoding.</returns>
-        protected string GetMediaTypeWithCharset(string mediaType, Encoding encoding)
+        private string GetMediaTypeWithCharset(string mediaType, Encoding encoding)
         {
-            var mediaTypeEncoding = MediaTypeEncoding.GetEncoding(mediaType);
-            if (mediaTypeEncoding == encoding)
+            if (string.Equals(encoding.WebName, Encoding.UTF8.WebName, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) &&
+                OutputMediaTypeCache.ContainsKey(mediaType))
             {
-                return mediaType;
-            }
-            else if (mediaTypeEncoding == null)
-            {
-                return CreateMediaTypeWithEncoding(mediaType, encoding);
-            }
-            else
-            {
-                // This can happen if the user has overriden SelectCharacterEncoding
-                return MediaTypeEncoding.ReplaceEncoding(mediaType, encoding);
+                return OutputMediaTypeCache[mediaType];
             }
+
+            return MediaTypeEncoding.ReplaceEncoding(mediaType, encoding);
         }
 
         private Encoding MatchAcceptCharacterEncoding(IList<StringWithQualityHeaderValue> acceptCharsetHeaders)
@@ -354,15 +362,5 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Formatters
             sorted.Reverse();
             return sorted;
         }
-
-        private static string CreateMediaTypeWithEncoding(string mediaType, Encoding encoding)
-        {
-            return CreateMediaTypeWithEncoding(new StringSegment(mediaType), encoding);
-        }
-
-        private static string CreateMediaTypeWithEncoding(StringSegment mediaType, Encoding encoding)
-        {
-            return $"{mediaType.Value}; charset={encoding.WebName}";
-        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/test/Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Core.Test/Formatters/OutputFormatterTests.cs b/test/Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Core.Test/Formatters/OutputFormatterTests.cs
index 8a4aebb122..c796024ea4 100644
--- a/test/Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Core.Test/Formatters/OutputFormatterTests.cs
+++ b/test/Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Core.Test/Formatters/OutputFormatterTests.cs
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ using System.Text;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
 using Microsoft.AspNet.Http;
 using Microsoft.AspNet.Http.Internal;
+using Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.TestCommon;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.Primitives;
 using Microsoft.Net.Http.Headers;
 using Moq;
@@ -101,6 +102,88 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Formatters
             Assert.Equal(new StringSegment(expectedContentType), formatterContext.ContentType);
         }
 
+        [Fact]
+        public void WriteResponse_GetMediaTypeWithCharsetReturnsMediaTypeFromCache_IfEncodingIsUtf8()
+        {
+            // Arrange
+            var formatter = new TestOutputFormatter();
+
+            var formatterContext = new OutputFormatterWriteContext(
+                new DefaultHttpContext(),
+                new TestHttpResponseStreamWriterFactory().CreateWriter,
+                objectType: null,
+                @object: null)
+            {
+                ContentType = new StringSegment("application/json"),
+            };
+
+            formatter.SupportedMediaTypes.Add("application/json");
+            formatter.SupportedEncodings.Add(Encoding.UTF8);
+
+            // Act
+            formatter.WriteAsync(formatterContext);
+            var firstContentType = formatterContext.ContentType;
+
+            formatterContext.ContentType = new StringSegment("application/json");
+
+            formatter.WriteAsync(formatterContext);
+            var secondContentType = formatterContext.ContentType;
+
+            // Assert
+            Assert.Same(firstContentType.Buffer, secondContentType.Buffer);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void WriteResponse_GetMediaTypeWithCharsetReplacesCharset_IfDifferentThanEncoding()
+        {
+            // Arrange
+            var formatter = new TestOutputFormatter();
+
+            var formatterContext = new OutputFormatterWriteContext(
+                new DefaultHttpContext(),
+                new TestHttpResponseStreamWriterFactory().CreateWriter,
+                objectType: null,
+                @object: null)
+            {
+                ContentType = new StringSegment("application/json; charset=utf-7"),
+            };
+
+            formatter.SupportedMediaTypes.Add("application/json");
+            formatter.SupportedEncodings.Add(Encoding.UTF8);
+
+            // Act
+            formatter.WriteAsync(formatterContext);
+
+            // Assert
+            Assert.Equal(new StringSegment("application/json; charset=utf-8"), formatterContext.ContentType);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void WriteResponse_GetMediaTypeWithCharsetReturnsSameString_IfCharsetEqualToEncoding()
+        {
+            // Arrange
+            var formatter = new TestOutputFormatter();
+
+            var contentType = "application/json; charset=utf-16";
+            var formatterContext = new OutputFormatterWriteContext(
+                new DefaultHttpContext(),
+                new TestHttpResponseStreamWriterFactory().CreateWriter,
+                objectType: null,
+                @object: null)
+            {
+                ContentType = new StringSegment(contentType),
+            };
+
+            formatter.SupportedMediaTypes.Add("application/json");
+            formatter.SupportedEncodings.Add(Encoding.Unicode);
+
+            // Act
+            formatter.WriteAsync(formatterContext);
+
+            // Assert
+            Assert.Same(contentType, formatterContext.ContentType.Buffer);
+        }
+
         [Fact]
         public void WriteResponseContentHeaders_NoSupportedEncodings_NoEncodingIsSet()
         {