Sound Card suggestion to get rid of Realtek ALC4080

[wNotyarD]

Hello, I thought about making this connection before. But there is a situation like this, when I get sound output from the graphics card, will the sound quality be lower than the current sound quality? And is there a control panel that allows me to manage the sound settings of the graphics card? (like realtek or sonic studio)

I'm afraid you'll only have the Windows Mixer and whatever other options/enhancements Windows has for any sound output.
Audio quality from the GPU shouldn't be low, though, it's digital. If it does lose quality, it'd be something on your monitor's DAC. But that will be for you to test and see if it is up to your standards or not.

 

[Dr. Dro]

This may sound weird and I truly hesitated at first - I had a NU Audio that doesn't fit on my new ROG Apex Encore motherboard.

Head out to the Apple Store and buy their USB-C to headphone jack adapter meant for the iPhone 15. It actually drives my Sony studio cans just fine. That should be all you need, trust me on that one. It's incredibly inexpensive, the sound has no noise and the volume is great... I was amazed, that thing basically outperforms any low-end sound card and doesn't owe much even to a high-end model.

 

[Ferather]

In regards to GPU audio, the information given is 100% correct, I have an HDMI to SPDIF converter that also has 3.5mm out, HOWEVER be aware the 3.5mm has a DAC and also so does a monitor.
If you go through the monitor its the same as the converter, if you use the 3.5mm out, you are using the monitors DAC. The ALC 4080 is 1220 based without the HDA bus.

Personally I use SPDIF-Optical and have done for 20+ years, my speaker system is Class-D so there is no DAC, but otherwise it would be sound system DAC.


I don't use HDMI myself, it was a test unit sent to me that supports 6 channel LPCM over Optical, HDMI is junk.
You wont find any mastering systems or external DAC's supporting HDMI.