[itairall]

No, I have generated a few thousand midjourney images and there is quite a difference in these images actually.

It is hard to describe but there is a very unnatural "sheen" to the images on the left.

The SDXL 0.9 images look more photo realistic but they still aren't quite at the level that midjourney can do.

The best example is the wolf's hair between the ears in the SDXL 0.9 image. It is just a little too noisy and wavey compared to how a real wolf photo would look. Midjourney 5.1 --style raw would still handily beat this image if making a photo realistic wolf.

The jacket on the Alien in the SDXL 0.9 image also has too much of that AI sheen but it kind of works in this image as an effect for the jacket material so not really the best example.

The coffee cup isn't very good on either of them IMO. The trees on the right are still not blurred quite right. They are hiding the hand with this image on the right too. You can see how bad the little and ring finger is on the left image.

Obviously, this is all very nit picky.