Wednesday, April 22nd 2020

NVIDIA RTX Voice Modded to Work on Non-RTX GeForce GPUs
NVIDIA made headlines with the release of its RTX Voice free software, which gives your communication apps computational noise-cancellation, by leveraging AI. The software is very effective at what it does, but requires a GeForce RTX 20-series GPU. PC enthusiast David Lake, over at Guru3D Forums disagrees. With fairly easy modifications to its installer payload, Lake was able to remove its system requirements gate, and get it to install on his machine with a TITAN V graphics card, and find that the software works as intended.
Our first instinct was to point out that the "Volta" based TITAN V features tensor cores, and has hardware AI capabilities, until we found dozens of users across Guru3D forums, Reddit, and Twitter claiming that the mod gets RTX Voice to work on their GTX 16-series, "Pascal," "Maxwell," and even older "Fermi" hardware. So in all likelihood, RTX Voice uses a CUDA-based GPGPU codepath, rather than something fancy leveraging tensor cores. Find instructions on how to mod the RTX Voice installer in the Guru3D Forums thread here.
Our first instinct was to point out that the "Volta" based TITAN V features tensor cores, and has hardware AI capabilities, until we found dozens of users across Guru3D forums, Reddit, and Twitter claiming that the mod gets RTX Voice to work on their GTX 16-series, "Pascal," "Maxwell," and even older "Fermi" hardware. So in all likelihood, RTX Voice uses a CUDA-based GPGPU codepath, rather than something fancy leveraging tensor cores. Find instructions on how to mod the RTX Voice installer in the Guru3D Forums thread here.
30 Comments on NVIDIA RTX Voice Modded to Work on Non-RTX GeForce GPUs
Here's the load with audacity and RTX voice on the input. Peak load 7%
I wonder how many people download stuff like that and then suspect Nvidia of eavesdropping on Zoom talks...
And obviously I wonder at what RPM your fans spin after running that. ;)