AMD appears to be about to launch a competitor to RTX Voice, a feature for Nvidia graphics cards that cancels background noise when you’re on a call or using the microphone. That’s according to a trailer AMD posted on its YouTube channel (apparently by mistake), Tom’s Hardware reports. Fortunately, a copy of the trailer was downloaded before Reddit user u/zenobian removed it and uploaded it to AMD’s subreddit.
The leaked trailer suggests that AMD’s noise cancellation feature will work very similarly to Nvidia’s RTX Voice (which has since been incorporated into Nvidia’s Broadcast app). It uses “a real-time deep learning algorithm” to deliver “bidirectional noise reduction” that filters out background noise from both output and input microphone audio, and is apparently integrated into existing Adrenalin software from AMD.
The big question is how well AMD’s noise suppression technology works in practice. Nvidia’s RTX Voice works so well that it feels like magic at times, and when I’ve used it in the past, it happily canceled out the sound of clackier mechanical keyboards. AMD certainly needs to match features like these if it has any hope of overcoming its underdog status in the GPU market.
There is no mention of when the feature might receive an official announcement or what hardware will be required to make use of it. When Nvidia initially released its RTX Voice software, it seemed that the AI-centric tensor cores found in its newest graphics cards were key to making it work. However, in the following months Nvidia released official support for the feature on much older cards that did not have the dedicated hardware. We expect AMD’s feature to work on an equally wide range of devices.
AMD representatives did not respond to The Verge’s request for comment.