Quote Originally Posted by Sebastian
There seems to be some confusion about RAW and noise. Noise is not a quality of the file format, it is a quality of the sensor, and therefor it's impossible for RAW to have less noise than JPEG. Typically, RAW processing software applies a bit of noise reduction during the developing process, and makes it appear as if there's less noise.
No, it isn't, but if you have more adjustments in RAW and each adjustment has the potential to add noise, and smoothing the noise in RAW tends to reduce details.

Ronnoco