Mechanical keyboards, desk fans, a busy household: your teammates and stream audience hear all of it. You do not have to buy a new microphone to fix that. If you own a recent NVIDIA or AMD graphics card, you already have access to a free AI tool that can filter background noise in real time.
Forge PC has not run listening tests on these tools for this article. The features, requirements and setup steps come from NVIDIA's and AMD's official product pages, read on 13 November 2026.
At a glance
| NVIDIA Broadcast | AMD Noise Suppression |
|---|
Cost | Free | Free (part of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition) |
GPU requirement | GeForce RTX 2060, Quadro RTX 3000, TITAN RTX, RTX Spark or higher | Radeon RX 6000 Series desktop graphics or newer, or a Ryzen 6000 Series processor with integrated graphics or newer |
Software requirement | Studio, Game Ready or RTX Enterprise driver 572.61 or newer (617.42 on Windows on Arm) | Adrenalin Edition 22.7.1 or newer |
Operating system | Windows 10 64-bit, Windows 11 64-bit, Windows 11 on Arm | Windows 10, Windows 11 |
Audio features | Noise Removal, Room Echo Removal, Studio Voice | Noise suppression on input, output or both |
Video features | Virtual background, Virtual Key Light, Eye Contact, Auto Frame, upscaling and frame generation (beta) | None |
Choice of processor | Runs on the RTX GPU | Choose the Ryzen CPU or the Radeon GPU |
NVIDIA Broadcast: a full AI studio
NVIDIA Broadcast is a separate app, and NVIDIA lists a long set of features.
Audio: - Noise Removal and Room Echo Removal use AI to remove background noise and echo, which NVIDIA pitches as the way to stream or join meetings without finding a quiet room. - Studio Voice goes further. NVIDIA says it upgrades your microphone with AI to give premium-sounding audio.
Video: - Virtual Background removes, replaces or blurs your background without a greenscreen. - Virtual Key Light automatically relights your face to reduce shadows. - Eye Contact makes it look as though you are looking at the camera when you glance away. - Auto Frame tracks your movement and crops and zooms to keep you in shot. - RTX Video Super Resolution and Frame Generation, both in beta, upscale your webcam to 4K and generate 60fps from it.
Broadcast can also process recorded files offline, so you can clean up audio or video before uploading. NVIDIA also lists an MCP server that lets AI agents toggle settings and process files.
Requirements: a GeForce RTX 2060, Quadro RTX 3000, TITAN RTX, RTX Spark or higher, 8GB of RAM, and NVIDIA driver 572.61 or newer on Windows. NVIDIA recommends at least an Intel Core i5-8600 or AMD Ryzen 5 2600. You need an internet connection during installation. GTX cards are not on the supported list.
AMD Noise Suppression: simple and built in
AMD's tool is narrower: it does noise suppression only, but it is built into AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition, so there is no separate app to install. AMD's page lists three setup steps:
Open AMD Software, go to Settings, then the Audio & Video tab, and turn on AMD Noise Suppression.
Choose whether to apply it to your input (microphone), your output (what you hear), or both. Then choose whether your Ryzen CPU or Radeon GPU does the processing.
In your game, chat app or streaming software, select AMD Streaming Audio Device as the input and/or output.
Being able to clean up output audio is useful if a teammate or colleague has a noisy microphone. The choice of processor is also handy: AMD says you can move the work between your Ryzen CPU and Radeon GPU to suit the game.
Requirements: a Radeon RX 6000 Series or newer desktop graphics card, or a Ryzen 6000 Series or newer processor with integrated graphics, plus Adrenalin Edition 22.7.1 or later on Windows 10 or 11. AMD also notes that Noise Suppression may not install on systems with Realtek ACP-based ANR.
Setting up NVIDIA Broadcast
Download NVIDIA Broadcast from NVIDIA's site, and make sure your GeForce driver is version 572.61 or newer. Our driver update guide covers this.
Open Broadcast, pick your microphone, and turn on Noise Removal. Add Room Echo Removal if you are in a bare room.
In Discord, OBS or your meeting app, select NVIDIA Broadcast as your microphone, and as your camera if you use the video effects. The setup guide linked from NVIDIA's Broadcast page covers individual apps.
In both cases the principle is the same: your other apps take their audio from the NVIDIA or AMD device rather than directly from the microphone. If you stream with OBS, our streaming PC setup guide shows where the audio settings live.
What about Windows Studio Effects?
Windows 11 has its own AI effects, including voice focus, background blur, eye contact and automatic framing. But Microsoft says these need a processor with an NPU rated at 10+ TOPS and a device with a built-in camera. On a typical desktop gaming PC with a separate webcam and no NPU, the GPU tools above are the practical option. Our NPU explainer covers which processors have one.
Which should you use?
You have an RTX graphics card: use NVIDIA Broadcast. Noise Removal alone justifies it, and you also get Studio Voice and camera effects for streaming.
You have a Radeon RX 6000 or newer: use AMD Noise Suppression. It is already in Adrenalin, and the CPU/GPU processing choice is handy if your games load the GPU heavily.
You have neither: look at your microphone or headset maker's software, or move the mic closer to your mouth and away from the keyboard, which costs nothing.
If you stream, the same tools also tidy up a headset microphone, so a cheaper headset can sound better than you might expect.
Our verdict
If you have an NVIDIA RTX card, NVIDIA Broadcast is the more capable tool by a distance. It adds echo removal, Studio Voice and a full set of webcam effects to noise removal, and can even clean up recordings offline. If you have a Radeon RX 6000-series card or newer, AMD Noise Suppression does the one job most people need: removing background noise from your mic, and optionally from incoming audio. It lives inside Adrenalin, with no extra app. Both are free, so use whichever matches your graphics card. We have not run listening tests; this comparison uses NVIDIA's and AMD's published features and requirements.
