Landscape normal behaves differently on CPU vs GPU

One of our licensees encountered this issue. Landscape normal is calculated differently on GPU vs CPU.

See screenshot below: left is GPU (with Edit Layers enabled) and CPU (Layers disabled)

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This is a summary of what they discovered about the cause of this problem:

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They'd like to know if this is by design, and if so the reason behind it. Either way they want a way to get 'correct' normal on GPU since the CPU normal is of higher quality.

1. Open the reproduce project attached
2. Open the map "Main", a post process volume has been setup to display World Normal
3. See how the two landscapes have different normal quality
   The left one is GPU, with Edit Layers enabled. Notice how normals appear 'chunky' in steep areas (top part) and have weird bumps in smooth areas (bottom part)
   Notice how the right one (CPU) yields much better result.
4. You can try reimport Heightmap.png to both of the landscapes, results won't change

Additionally, if you disable Edit Layers of the left landscape, the result won't immediately change, it still inherits normal from previous GPU result. You need to reimport Heightmap.png or do sculpt editing to 'refresh' the normals.