Oh come on, we've been through this time and again: what is superficially more pleasing to the eye is not necessarily what is correct. hawarren's comparison clearly shows the GC render as far superior in tonal balance and contrast, but because the lighting was adjusted to be correct for the non-GC render, the non-GC render may appear more pleasing to the casual viewer.

In other words, the comparison is skewed.

But if you adjust the lighting to be correct for the GC render, and then switch GC off, the non-GC render will be complete trash. This would skew the comparison the other way, with far more dramatic results.

"If I were a shadow, I know I wouldn't like to be half of what I should be."
Mr Otsuka, the old black tomcat in Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)