The soundcard analogy may not be that faulty. General purpose soundcards have pretty much been replaced by motherboard components, while high end soundcards (au

The soundcard analogy may not be that faulty. General purpose soundcards have pretty much been replaced by motherboard components, while high end soundcards (audio interfaces) for DAW (digital audio workstation) use cases are an entirely separate market. Side note: Most of those high end audio interfaces are now external devices connected via USB (formerly also via Firewire). And since a DAW typically doesn’t need high end video, I didn’t bother with a separate GPU on my latest DAW build. I will only add a GPU card, if I ever want to do higher end gaming, video production or machine learning on that computer.