head to head
Supreme Commander asks more than Fallout: New Vegas, and the gap is reads.

Optimization · Pure Optimization
A faction-driven RPG-shooter where build and route planning shape every ending.

Optimization · Pure Optimization
Large-scale RTS famous for strategic zoom, thousand-unit armies, and a streaming mass-energy economy.
Fallout: New Vegas leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Supreme Commander leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Supreme Commander leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Fallout: New Vegas
Shooter inputs with VATS assist
Supreme Commander
Massive APM demands across strategic-zoom battlefields
Supreme Commander leans clearly harder on reads.
Fallout: New Vegas
Scripted factions and enemies
Supreme Commander
PvP hinges on scouting and countering opponent commitments
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Fallout: New Vegas
Some loot and crit RNG
Supreme Commander
Deterministic engine; only unscouted intel
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Fallout: New Vegas
Faction routing, perks, builds heavily rewarded
Supreme Commander
Streaming economy and build-order efficiency are the backbone
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.