Audio popping issue

[Lagunow]

A question for the more hardware savvy:

If I swap the output driver from realtek to HDMI, would the audio be handled by the GPU instead?

If that was the case, wouldn't it theoretically solve the issue if I try to output the audio through the HDMI port and let the GPU handle the audio instead of using the motherboard P2/USB ports?

That's just something that crossed my mind though, I'm not knowledgeable about these specifics.