Definitely, and as I wrote a few posts ago, it might be worth trying the sharpener of a newer Photoshop version on a denoised pic.
Plus, personally I find a noisy/ grainy pic worst than a (slighty) blurry, and if you look closer, you see a lot of noisy pics (even promos).
Yeah true. Before discovering this denoising feature, I never could achieve noiseless no matter how far it's rendered. I rendered one pic that had one figure, one shed (inside of this one
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), one genesis figure with clothes on, and one light, it took me 12 minutes to render the whole scene at 1080p resolution. Progress bar hit 100%, and stopped rendering, but noise was somewhat there in the shadow. Now I can render the same scene in less than 5 minutes without any noise. The image quality is identical unless you zoomed in, then you see slight blurry (as in the above images I posted), but it's not a big problem compared with the time it took.