Elgato 4K60 S+, External Capture Card, Record in 4K60 HDR10 with ultra-low latency to PC or SD Card on PS5/PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One X/S, in OBS and other broadcasting software, for Windows

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The vast majority of content creators may simply want to grab an Elgato HD60S+, which gives you all the tools and power you need to capture footage on a home PC alongside any connected HDMI device. However, if you're a more profound content creator, there are a few niches this device can fill.

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The Elgato Game Capture 4K60 S+ is for content creators who want to upgrade their channels in a big way. For starters, it can capture 4K HDR gameplay directly to your PC or SD card. Yep, this is Elgato's first capture card to use stand-alone recording via an SD card, which is a massive plus for console games and a long-awaited feature from veteran Elgato users. While the 4K60 Pro does something similar in terms of what it can capture, the S+'s extra portability is what you should care about.The AVerMedia Live Gamer Bolt is an incredible piece of hardware, matching the company's flagship internal PCIe capture card in basically every way, without the requirement for a slot inside your PC to run it.

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Latency is another of this card’s weak points. It’s trying to push 4K 60 FPS through a USB 3.0 connection. The result is a heavily delayed image coming to your preview window. The passthrough is lagless, so it doesn’t affect your gaming experience. This still negatively affects content creators since the gameplay will be desynced from other media sources like microphones or webcams. I didn’t do systematic testing, but it felt like an entire half second of delay. (Elgato says it’s about 250 ms) To mitigate this, you have to add render delay filters to you mic and webcam in OBS. How much delay exactly? Trial and error till it sounds about right. Yep… it’s as bad as it sounds. Looking at the hardware there are some key differences that can affect which you buy. The most obvious is that the AVerMedia Live Gamer Bolt requires Thunderbolt 3 to operate at all. If you don't have it, you can't use it, and that rules out a number of PCs, including virtually anything running on an AMD Ryzen CPU.

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In contrast with these issues, the 4K60 S+ does have two things going for it. First, the footage recorded in OBS was pixelation and corruption free. Then again, the problem with that is you can no longer record in HDR since OBS does not currently support HDR as of this writing. Even so, this shows there’s issues with Elgato’s 4K Capture Utility which means it can potentially be fixed in an update. Though, they’ve been saying they’ll fix it since the device launched.