Nvidia HD audio device

I recently reinstalled windows 10 (20H2) with an internet connection present. After the installation and running windows update, I saw that I has the Nvidia HD audio device. I guess that means I had the Nvidia HD audio driver on my PC that Windows automatically provided.

I then installed the latest driver for my graphics card. I selected custom installation and only selected the graphics card driver and PhysX driver components. I also selected clean installation. In my case, I left the HD audio and USB type C driver components unchecked.

Before I started the installation, it said there was no existing versions of the HD audio, PhysX and USB type C components. Therefore, I was hoping the Nvidia custom installation would remove the existing Nvidia HD audio device even though the installer said I didn't have one. Anyway, after the installation I still have the Nvidia HD audio device/driver.

How can I remove it?

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Note, the image I provided for the custom installation was not from my exact installer. I was just providing an example that I did not select the HD audio component and it said there was "none" under the current version.

I think you are trying to make things more complicated than is necessary.
My motherboard has Realtek audio drivers however my Nvidia GTX1060 requires the Nvidia audio driver for HDMI output.
Unless you really need to it is best to stick with letting the Nvidia driver decide what to install.

I believe that the nVidia audio driver can be found in the Programs and Features control panel, and removed from there.

I don't install it, because I have no devices on the HDMI or DisplayPort outputs that support audio. Ditto for the USB-C graphics driver.

Reminds me of the old days, when nVidia used to install their 3D drivers by default, even if no hardware was present that could use them. Probably harmless, but it always annoyed me.