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Hardwareīefore discussing the card itself, it’s important to repeat that it doesn’t do encoding. The 4K60 doesn’t handle HDR at all, but neither do many 4K monitors, including the one we use for console testing. This is the software we’ve used with our console tests because it’s so simple, but it is possible to apply finer adjustments through third-party utilities like OBS or Virtualdub, which have no problems hooking in to the card. There is no internal encoder on the 4K60 Pro, but Elgato’s software allows a choice between pure CPU or GPU-accelerated encoding, as well as a simple Mbps slider that goes up to 140 (at 2160p).

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For that, Elgato provides a separate bare-bones “4K Capture Utility for Windows.” This is a Windows 10 64-bit only software (we even had some driver issues on an outdated version of 10, solved by updating).

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It will recognize 4K60 capture cards and allow 720p or 1080p capture, but won’t accept a 2160p signal. This Elgato 4K60 Pro review looks at the capture card’s quality and capabilities for both console and PC capture, and also walks through some thermal and temperature measurements taken with thermocouples.Įlgato’s standard “Game Capture for Windows” software does not work for 4K capture. The Magewell does have a heatsink and a fan, though, which the 4K60 Pro does not-more on that later.

$400 may seem like a lot, but the existing alternatives are much more expensive, like the Magewell Pro Capture HDMI 4K Plus, which (besides having an awful name) costs around $800-$900. It doesn’t seem like these are flying off the shelves, which probably speaks more to the current demand for 4K 60FPS streaming than the product itself-it’s the cheapest of a very small number of 4K60-capable capture cards, and there’s not any consumer-level competition to speak of. As of this writing, nobody at all has reviewed it on Newegg, and it’s on sale for $12 off in both locations. Of the three single-star reviews that are actually for the 4K60, one is from a gentleman who was expecting a seven-inch-long PCIe card to work in a laptop.

There are only twenty-something reviews of the 4K60 compared to nearly two thousand for the HD60, so that may skew the results slightly. The Amazon reviews for the 4K60 Pro are almost worthless, because Amazon considers the 4K60 Pro and Elgato’s 1080p-capable HD60 Pro to be varieties of the same product and groups their reviews together. It launched in November with an MSRP of $400, and has remained around that price since. Elgato’s 4K60 Pro capture card is an internal PCIe x4 capture card capable of handling resolutions up to 3840x2160 at 60 frames per second, as the name implies.

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