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by CarVac 2391 days ago
This is an oft-repeated myth.

Per-pixel noise depends indeed on the pixel size, but image-scale noise is almost completely independent of the pixel size.

That's because while a large pixel has less noise, it appears larger in the output and so the noise is correspondingly more visible. A small pixel is noisier, but smaller, so the net noise is the same for the same sensor size.