Nikon Capture RAW processing software should process images in exactly the same way as a Nikon camera. If a Nikon camera has five sharpness modes then these same shaprness modes and terminology are present within Nikon Capture (NC). Without any changes I would expect the same results from NC as the camera.
Unlike other RAW processing software NC has no default, it simply reads all in-camera settings and applys them to the 'RAW' image itself.
The difference in the two techniques is procesing a 12-bit image (NC) and perhaps the camera converts to 8-bit first for faster processing with less memory requirement, hence a sharper RAW converted image.
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