Question is what is the job you are doing and what it is the best tool for the job. You try to reconstruct small images that are heavily compressed and reconstruct faces and the story changes in favor of HitPaw. If you compare it head on, I agree Topaz is much faster and for images of certian type better. I hope Topaz does not become case study because of their complacency. Canon managed to regain a lot of it, but Nikon not so much. Not sure how much you follow camera market, but remember when Nikon and Canon were kings and than Sony showed up on the market, seemingly out of nowhere and surpass them, and than by the time Canon and Nikon joined the mirrorless game, they already lost market share. Point I’m making is that when companies get complacent and stop innovating, competition catches up and surpasses them. Even now it still does a better reconstruction of blurry and small faces than Topaz, and for some users its enough what it does. Meanwhile there are many more companies entering the AI race and HitPaw AI was one of them. Some programs pretty much abandoned, like Mask AI, Adjust AI. I was commenting on the fact that until the latest release 5.8.0, was looking like they were not making many big improvements, but were more hawkish with their pricing. I am not comparing Topaz GigaPixel and HitPaw as two equal programs that compete in the same way. The photo apps of TopazLabs run quite snappy even on relatively small GPUs. So, how long will it take when the customes did not spend 1000$ to 4000$ on his GPU? Where it makes differences between noise and details. The app does not allow model changes with sliders, you can not set it to your own needs.ĭenoise Denoises 150 75Mb tiff images in the same time with this GPU. When denoising another image, there were tiles and leftover pixels that it didn’t recognize as noise. You can’t maximize or enlarge the app window, it doesn’t accept drag and drop. The face model did not change anything on an analog test photo. On my 17 Teraflop Radeon Pro W6800 it takes 3 seconds (2 seconds for resize) for 1% point. HitPaw, accepts only internet file types. I’ve complained about this and many others have for over a year now, with no change or response from Topaz. There has to be more efficient way to code and deliver smaller installation than right now. The Topaz products keep getting larger in size and not proportionally improving in their ability to deliver more. That is six times the size for same or lesser results. By comparison with all the models and everything GigaPixel is about 6 GB. By comparison HitPaw AI is maybe now 800 MB download with three good AI models to choose from. My point was that Topaz is releasing large applications, lots of bugs, and somewhat frustrating User interface that keeps changing and pricing structure that is not super clear and also some of their products like Mask AI is abandoned it seems, and that makes people trust the company less. There have been threads about Tiopaz and need to add better face reconstructions of small faces, but so far Topaz have not implemented it. In normal, high res clean images, it delivers similar results to Topaz, some better, some worse, depending on the image, but on average very comparable. So far I’ve tried every AI enlarger that is commercial, didn’t code one myself, but all the commercial options, HitPaw AI new model for reconstructing faces, is so far the best, and superior to Topaz with examples where there are small or blurry faces. I guess the downside is no Mac version, but perhaps they are planing it. So far I’ve seen quite a few similar Online AI photo enhancers, but HitPaw AI has three models now and one it tries to make itself different by being offline app.
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