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RTX Voice in 2026: the legacy build GTX owners still need

RTX Voice is the app that started this category — and NVIDIA replaced it. It stays on this site for one audience: GTX owners, for whom the patched legacy build is still the best free noise removal that’ll actually install.

BUILD 2026.07.30paths & prices verified vs vendor docsby the Loadout Audio squad

What RTX Voice is now

NVIDIA’s original AI noise-removal app — the 2020 beta that made this whole category mainstream. Its status today: legacy app superseded by NVIDIA Broadcast; still downloadable, and patched to run on GeForce GTX cards (the reason it still matters). NVIDIA’s own guidance matches ours: RTX 2060 or newer should use NVIDIA Broadcast instead. If that’s you, the Broadcast setup is the page you want; this one is for the GTX crowd Broadcast leaves behind.

GTX setup, chip by chip

  1. Download from NVIDIA’s site (their RTX Voice setup guide hosts the link — no mirrors).
  2. Install and open RTX Voice. Tick noise removal on the input; leave output filtering off unless incoming noise is genuinely worse than the CPU cost.
  3. Point your apps at the virtual devices:
OBSSettingsAudioMic/AuxiliaryNVIDIA RTX Voice
DiscordVoice & VideoInput DeviceNVIDIA RTX Voice

Then talk while a fan runs. If the fan’s gone, ship it.

Frame budget — measure yours, 60 seconds

On GTX cards RTX Voice runs its models without tensor cores, so the toll is real and rig-specific. Anyone quoting an exact FPS cost without your rig in hand is selling something — run the benchmark instead:

  1. Pick a repeatable scene (same map spot, same settings) with an FPS overlay running.
  2. Note average FPS for 30 seconds, filter OFF.
  3. Toggle the filter ON. Same scene, 30 seconds, note it again.
  4. The difference is your real cost. Re-check after driver updates.
your framesfilter cost = measured, not quoted

Community reports put modern-GPU costs in the low single digits and older RTX 2060-class cards higher — treat those as rumors with good intentions, not specs. Your overlay outranks every forum post, ours included.

Honest limits of the legacy lane

Lobby questions

Is RTX Voice still available in 2026?
Yes — as a legacy app. NVIDIA folded its noise removal into NVIDIA Broadcast (the current product, RTX 2060+), but the standalone RTX Voice build survives, patched to run on GTX cards. That patch is the whole reason this page exists.
RTX Voice or NVIDIA Broadcast — which do I download?
Spec check: RTX 2060, Quadro RTX 3000, TITAN RTX or better → Broadcast, no contest. GTX card → RTX Voice, because Broadcast won’t install at all. Same family, one door each.
Where do I download RTX Voice safely?
From NVIDIA’s own site — search their support pages for the RTX Voice setup guide. Skip driver-bundle mirrors: a microphone-resident app from a random host is a bad trade for saved seconds.

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