found a case where it make a difference
greenscreen shot on alexa35, using ada7sw in the arri reference tool i get somewhat cleaner edges vs using ada7-hw in resolve (flame crashes when I try to export arriraw to exrs with denoising applied thats why i had to use resolve)
also arri reference tool exports broken exrs when you select anything but uncompressed exrs anyhow - interesting will use ART for my pulls on crucial jobs .
Have to also check flames decoding and if it support ada7sw , it was only released by arri in may 2024 so idk if it made it into any softeare yet
Hardware decode:
Software decode: