DT sharpening is questionable

[kofa (István Kovács)]

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Rawtherapee seems by far sharper than darktable

I developed the following raw image taken with my APS-C sony a6600 with both darktable and rawtherapee. DSC00662.ARW (24.0 MB) This is a detail of the image coming from DT [DT_DETAIL] DSC00662_03.ARW.xmp (9.7 KB) And here the same detail from RT [RT_DETAIL] DSC00662.ARW.pp3 (11.5 KB) What I find surprising is the difference in sharpness of the image between DT and RT; in a nutshell, RT seems by far sharper than DT. Why is that and, in case, where am I wrong? Is there any way to impro…