Noise and Light: DxO Photolab vs Luminar Neo

[StevenAunan]

Since I regularly use Luminar Neo and DxO Photolab 9, and since I shot some high ISO images last night, I thought I'd post one image processed in both editors. Each image was processed with the software's automatic/recommended settings and no other manual edits. The Head2Head JPG was created in Gimp with a simple copy/paste, no editing except the added words.

1) Photolab: R5II Camera Body rendering, "DxO Smart Lighting," DeepPrime 3 noise reduction.
2) Neo: R5II Camera Faithful profile, "Auto Adjust" Developing, "High" Noiseless setting.

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[Photofarmer]

presume dxo first of the full images slightly ahead and is it NR or use of smart lighting. Tad sharper?