The leaked trailer suggests that AMD’s Noise Reduction feature will work very similarly to Nvidia’s RTX Voice (which was then broadcast to Nvidia’s Broadcast app). It uses “a real-time deep learning algorithm” to offer “bidirectional noise reduction” that filters out background noise from both outgoing and incoming microphone audio, and is apparently built into AMD’s existing Adrenalin software. The big question is how well AMD’s noise suppression technology works in practice. Nvidia’s RTX Voice works so well it feels like magic at times, and when I’ve used it in the past it happily canceled out the sound of noisier mechanical keyboards. AMD arguably needs to match features like these if it has any hopes of overtaking its underdog in the GPU market. There’s no word on when the feature might get an official announcement or what hardware will be required to make use of it. When Nvidia first released its RTX Voice software, it seemed that the AI-focused tensor cores found in its newer graphics cards were the key to making it work. However, in the following months Nvidia introduced official support for the feature on much older cards that did not have the dedicated hardware. Here’s hoping AMD’s feature works on a similarly wide range of devices. AMD representatives did not respond to The Verge’s request for comment.
