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This is probably the most egregious example of ADC side NR I've ever seen. If you've EVER done your own NR processing you will immediately be able to see that on the Fuji, they've using HEAVY chroma NR, chroma sharpening, and chroma blending which you can clearly see the artifacting from. You could easily make the Sony look exactly like the XT3 by applying the same levels of chroma NR that Fuji is baking into their signal path. It literally says NOTHING about what either sensor is capable of.
Again, THIS IS NOT "CHEATING" it's just literally what a manufacturer is allowed to do under ISO 18844:2017.
Also again, this is also why comparing the SnR of "unprocessed" RAWs is fucking retarded, and only complete and utter fucking retards think otherwise.