Users get RTX Voice app working on Nvidia non-RTX GPUs

Users report getting the newly released RTX Voice app working on Nvidia non-RTX graphics cards. The application would use tensor cores and therefore not work on such GPUs.

RTX Voice is an application that uses artificial intelligence to filter background noise from microphones and speakers in real time. For this, the application would use special tensor cores, which are used in recent RTX video cards from Nvidia, among other things. The company released the application in beta earlier this month, as many people are currently working from home. However, the software would only be intended for recent RTX GPUs, the manufacturer writes in a blog post.

Guru3D forum visitors got the application fully working on other Nvidia GPUs. Discoverer David Lake did this by modifying a temp file during the installation process. With this, the forum visitor got the application working on his Titan V, which also has tensor cores. However, users soon reported that this method also works on older GPUs, without such cores. The software would therefore run on Pascal GPUs, for example. Also video cards in the GTX 1600 series would work. Maxwell GPUs offer “mixed results,” according to David Lake. Rumors have circulated that a 2010 GTX 580 would work, but werken this was later debunked.

It’s unclear exactly how it works, but TechPowerUp writes that the software may use a cuda-based codepath. Tensor cores are not required for this. Instructions for installing the software on non-RTX GPUs are on Guru3D.

The RTX Voice application