The DxO lens profile also handles sharpening, more specifically appears to be deconvolving and can vastly improve a borderline lens around the edges and corners. It's like a PS CS6 Smart Sharpen where the parameters change across the field. But it can't work miracles, and if you have generally good input it's hard to distinguish from LR. In some cases DxO sharpening is too aggressive and introduces artifacts. It has better color saturation control, but not as good as Viveza 2. I no longer use DxO though because of LR's integration with third-party tools (like the Nik tool suite), and they didn't have profiles for the lenses that really needed them anyway. Without a lens profile the controls aren't as good as LR. The lens corrections for the Nikon fisheyes also wanted to defish and couldn't be used to just defringe and sharpen. This is based on DOP 7, which I never upgraded to 8. There's some remote possibility DOP 8 is better. DOP 7 was horribly slow, but still improved from DOP 6; not just processing raw files, but generating previews and hence touching the controls would take forever for it to respond.