diff --git a/common/HostSys.cpp b/common/HostSys.cpp
index bae6ad1c45..31be63089e 100644
--- a/common/HostSys.cpp
+++ b/common/HostSys.cpp
@@ -52,10 +52,10 @@ static void MultiPause()
 
 static u32 MeasurePauseTime()
 {
-	// GetCPUTicks may have resolution as low as 1µs
-	// One call to MultiPause could take anywhere from 20ns (fast Haswell) to 400ns (slow Skylake)
-	// We want a measurement of reasonable resolution, but don't want to take too long
-	// So start at a fairly small number and increase it if it's too fast
+	// A tick isn't a fixed time unit (see GetCPUTicks()), so this loop works in raw
+	// ticks and only converts to ns once it has enough. One MultiPause takes 20ns on
+	// a fast Haswell, 400ns on a slow Skylake, 83ns for the eight isb on a Cortex-A78C.
+	// Start small and double the batch until the tick delta clears 100.
 	for (int testcnt = 64; true; testcnt *= 2)
 	{
 		u64 start = GetCPUTicks();
diff --git a/pcsx2/VMManager.cpp b/pcsx2/VMManager.cpp
index 240e69368e..5fd4441af7 100644
--- a/pcsx2/VMManager.cpp
+++ b/pcsx2/VMManager.cpp
@@ -2480,7 +2480,8 @@ void VMManager::Internal::Throttle()
 		return;
 	}
 
-	// Conversion of delta from CPU ticks (microseconds) to milliseconds
+	// Conversion of delta from CPU ticks to milliseconds; a tick's time value is
+	// host-defined, so this has to divide by GetTickFrequency() rather than scale by a constant.
 	const s32 msec = static_cast<s32>((sDeltaTime * -1000) / static_cast<s64>(GetTickFrequency()));
 
 	// If any integer value of milliseconds exists, sleep it off.