What's the difference between a turbo and supercharger?

Question

Which creates more power

Answer 1

Turbochargers use exhaust gases to provide the intake boost side with pressure. A supercharger uses either a belt, chain, or even a gear drive, to use the mechanical power for "instant" response. The downside to superchargers is the parasitic loss due to the direct connection, while turbochargers are often faulted for the turbo "lag" (a delay in the reaction from the exhaust spinning the intake side for boost) With more modern technology, turbo lag is getting to be almost non existant, so the turbos are gaining in popularity. As far as which can make the most power, either can make insane amounts of power, more than enough to blow your engine to smithereens.
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Answer 2

The Turbo operates off of exhaust gases, the supercharger is belt driven or gear driven off of the crankshaft. The turbo is the way to go in my book...

Answer 3

A Turbo (turbo-supercharger) uses exhaust gas to run a compressor.
A "supercharger" is typicaly referring to a belt driven supercharger, not the kind driven by exhaust.

Answer 4

TURBOCHARGER and SUPERCHARGER both helps in improving and boosting the output power of the Engine.
They differ in their operation. And I have found out the best website from where you can clear all your doubts regarding this And also helps in sorting out the difference between them.

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Answer 5

A turbocharger is exhaust driven. A supercharger is belt or gear driven.

Answer 6

turbo driven by exhaust gases, charger driven by the crankshaft.