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Elgato's classic card, the HD60, also maxes out at 1080p 60 FPS but loses VRR passthrough. If you do want VRR passthrough, the HD60 X is your best bet, and also maxes out at 1440p 60 FPS recording and capture. The HD60 S+ will net you 4K 60 FPS pass through with 1080p60 recording via USB-C, ideal for basic content creation and streaming if you don't mind losing VRR passthrough. For basic streaming and content creation purposes, the HD60, HD60 S+, and HD60 X are all great options.

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They also produce a range of PCI-e capture cards designed for PC motherboards such as the 4K60 Pro, but again these are tailored more towards the high end. This is incredibly convenient if you're a content creator, but potentially overkill if you're not.

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The most powerful external capture card Elgato makes is the 4K60 S+, which not only nets you full 4K 60 FPS capture, but also has an external recording button and option to capture straight to an SD card.

Indeed, most of the best capture cards competition around this comes from Elgato itself.

That being said, it is a lot cheaper than some of Elgato's 4K-optimized capture cards, which is essentially a hint that this is mainly tailored for streamers potentially, rather than YouTube content creation. I know that I tend to stream at 1080p at most due to upload bandwidth constraints, but it's a bit of a letdown that I wouldn't be able to use this card if I was seeking to capture gameplay footage at its most crisp for edited content creation purposes. In essence, this is a capture card potentially specifically tailored towards competitive gameplay streaming, for those who don't want to sacrifice VRR for the privilege. Although not many games actually let you set performance modes specifically to 1440p natively on Xbox, which often leaves you at 1080p by default. The other caveat is that the HD60 X cannot record or stream gameplay at full UHD either, limiting you to 1440p at max. Source: Windows CentralElgato's 4K Capture tool is very good, but I'm still waiting for them to add the ability to capture screenshots from their video viewer. Plus, it's a little annoying having to dig into the Xbox Series X settings every time you want to swap between 4K p 120 FPS, since the capture card won't let you keep 4K and 120 Hz running at the same time due to the HDMI 2.0 bottleneck. While there aren't many games that actually run at 4K in 120 FPS as of writing, that may change as we get further into the generation. Overwatch is one of the few Xbox Series X titles that does support 1440p at 120 FPS specifically, and it works great with VRR through this capture card. There aren't too many competitive games that specifically take advantage of the full 4K 120 FPS settings, though. There may be technical limitations behind this implementation, such as power consumption over USB-C, or even price, but without HDMI 2.1, you can't set your Xbox to 4K 120 FPS with VRR passthrough, limiting you to 4K 60 FPS or 1440p 120FPS at max. Source: Windows Central (Image credit: Source: Windows Central)Įlgato potentially had an opportunity to future-proof this card by implementing HDMI 2.1, given that the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S both already support it.

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