Monday, April 5th 2021
NVIDIA RTX Voice Now Officially Supported on Non-RTX Cards
NVIDIA should probably start thinking about removing the RTX moniker from its RTX Voice suite, the (supposedly) AI-based audio noise-cancellation software the company launched about this time last year. At the time, NVIDIA announced it as an exclusive feature for their RTX GPUs, due to their AI-processing capabilities - and that led everyone to think RTX Voice employed the in-chip Tensor cores for leveraged AI operation. However, soon enough, mods started to appear that allowed GTX graphics cards - going back at least as much as the "hot-oven Fermi" in unofficial support - and that pointed towards a CUDA-based processing solution.
It appears that NVIDIA has now decided to officially extend support for the RTX Voice software to other, non-RTX graphics cards from the latest RTX 30-cards down to their 600-series (essentially any card supported under Nvidia's 410.18 driver or newer). So if you were hoping to leverage the software and wanted to do it officially, in a pre-RTX 20-series graphics card, with no patches - now you can. You can check out our RTX Voice review, where our very own Inle declared it to be "like magic".
Source:
Tom's Hardware
It appears that NVIDIA has now decided to officially extend support for the RTX Voice software to other, non-RTX graphics cards from the latest RTX 30-cards down to their 600-series (essentially any card supported under Nvidia's 410.18 driver or newer). So if you were hoping to leverage the software and wanted to do it officially, in a pre-RTX 20-series graphics card, with no patches - now you can. You can check out our RTX Voice review, where our very own Inle declared it to be "like magic".
29 Comments on NVIDIA RTX Voice Now Officially Supported on Non-RTX Cards
Complains about resources being hogged.
Because it's possible more powerful hardware enables additional capabilities (e.g. better algorithms).
i use it while streaming on my overkill PC's, the cost is worth it on high end hardware (or for teleconference stuff)
Well, as long as one has the brain cells to understand push-to-talk, isn't gaming in the middle of an auto repair shop, and has a mic that isn't from the dollar store.
Never bothered with RTX voice on mine, but a friend with a 2080 tried it and we couldn't hear any difference in quality. I realize it's kinda rich coming from someone who's on an XLR mic, but even with my old affordable Blue Snowball, the best results were without any of that noise suppression crap.
It doesn't do anything better than onboard sound fwiw. My kid was using one of those usb mics and it caused his gpu to run 3d clocks on the desktop. He apparently was using Voice cuz his mic didn't come with suppression. After some looking I realized what was happening. The app is parasitic like. I flipped his supremefx whatever sound on and enabled all the onboard sound chips abilities, no more resource drain.
what else could i use on my system then, with USB mics?
If you have lead fingers in combination with MX/Outemu Blues or Box Jades though, not much can be done there.
buying and mounting a boom arm is not something the majority of people will ever do
I guess it was a rhetorical question and you just wanted to continue expressing your preference for RTX Voice. The boom arm is just an option, the included stands on Blues work just fine for putting them between you and your keyboard.
Cardioid mic - check, boom arm - check, keyboard behind the mic - check.
Do the keyboard clacks go away? Nope.
Granted, this is with MX Blue's which are loud AF, but still.
www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/guides/nvidia-rtx-voice-setup-guide/#RTX-Voice?ncid=afm-chs-44270&ranMID=44270&ranEAID=kXQk6*ivFEQ&ranSiteID=kXQk6.ivFEQ-pF5XvWycJ7uNeNisC0RF0Q
It did install, I'm using a 1080Ti :
I legit woke up my GF one floor below with my keyboard once... once... because that was the last time I used that switch :D
You know what solves that? Scissor switches. Glorious, no noise, still some travel, very responsive and very much akin to laptops so most of what you touch probably has the same feel to it. I'm a fan... And no RTX Voice required.This is true, its definitely better than most software noise cancelling. Still I never knew this was a problem with most regular noise cancelling I think it also depends a lot on your usage pattern and peripherals in use. Most current day laptops over Teams have no - and I do mean zero - issues doing noise cancelling on their own.