Elgato’s New Capture Card Lowers The Price For 4k 60fps Gameplay Recording

Elgato’s caller Game Capture 4K S.

Elgato is launching its Game Capture 4K S instrumentality today, which will fto gamers and streamers seizure gameplay from Xbox Series S / X, PS5, aliases Switch 2 consoles successful 4K solution astatine 60fps. The $159.99 4K S is designed arsenic a replacement and betterment to Elgato’s older $179.99 HD60 X seizure device, and it goes connected waste today.

The 4K S is simply a batch little costly than nan $200+ HDMI 2.1 seizure cards that Elgato launched past twelvemonth for 4K astatine 60fps and HDR capture, but it’s only $30 much than nan Neo crippled seizure card — which is not tin of capturing gameplay successful 4K astatine 60fps.

The 4K S useful pinch Windows 11 and macOS 13 (or later) systems retired of nan box, truthful you don’t person to download drivers and group up nan instrumentality manually. You’ll beryllium capable to seizure successful 4K astatine 60fps aliases 1080p astatine 60fps pinch HDR enabled. That’s an betterment complete nan older HD60 X, which only supported 4K astatine 30fps capture.

Elgato is besides improving its passthrough support, truthful you tin play up to 4K astatine 60fps HDR pinch VRR enabled aliases up to 1440p astatine 120fps. This improves 1440p seizure opportunities, beyond nan up to 1440p astatine 60fps passthrough support disposable connected nan HD60 X.

As nan 4K S doesn’t require a driver to beryllium installed, it useful retired of nan container successful apps for illustration OBS Studio, Discord, and moreover nan TikTok Studio aliases Camo Studio apps connected an iPad. Elgato has moreover created a caller Elgato Studio app that’s designed to switch its existing 4K Capture Utility connected Windows and macOS. The app has been redesigned to amended lucifer Windows 11’s UI, and it besides useful connected Windows connected Arm devices for illustration nan latest Qualcomm-powered Copilot Plus PCs.