Keep in mind Ray, those sound cards in the comparison ARE built for recording as well as gaming. The sound chip in your computer is nowhere near them in specifications.
Any of those on the list will work as a recording interface but those with the better specs will work better for those who's requirements warrant.
That's the crux of the matter.

No on is denying that good, and even great recordings can be done with equipment that has specs that aren't as good. However, the normal Joe Blow does not have the room, the equipment or know how to use it, nor does he have the ear the folks who made those great recording have.
Keep in mind many of those great recording were done on using a great room for audio and using a $100,000 or better mixing board, $5,000 or better microphones, really good preamps, & etc.

As I alluded to earlier, if Joe Blow does a recording on his computer using the onboard chip he is going to spend additional money on outboard equipment or programs to clean up the signal, get it boosted to where it's usable, try emulate the right room and other potential effects and can, literally, spend hundreds of hours trying to get it to sound right.
On the other hand, while it is, in some ways, easier to get good sound using good equipment with good specs a bad sound engineer can make them sound like crap too.

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