16-bit Generation Wars!! Tech Specs and Graphics: Megadrive Vs Super NES Vs Neo Geo Vs PC Engine CD-ROMs/SuperGrafx Vs Megadrive+MegaCD

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Pemalite said:

Salnax said:

One thing to keep in mind is that... People are comparing them based on clockrates alone, which would be highly erroneous, the SNES CPU could definitely punch above it's weight when programmed it's way.
The SNES CPU would actually require less cycles for most instructions, which some developers leveraged, which meant that both CPU's had relatively similar MIPS (Although Sega still had a slight theoretical advantage.)

It’s insane that people still argue computing power based on clock rate between different CPUs. It has always only been aplicable to the same CPU at different clocks. 

It’s like saying that car engine A has more HP than car engine B because it can rev higher.