AVerMedia GC573 Live Gamer 4K, Internal Capture Card, Stream and Record 4K60 HDR10 with ultra-low latency on PS5, PS4 Pro, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One X, in OBS, Twitch, YouTube

Generally I do not write reviews for most things I buy on Amazon...but when I have a really positive experience I will take the time to do so because I want others to know that this is a safe product to purchase and I personally have had a great experience with it. First, I have used an Elgato HD60 Pro for a few years and they make a great product. Its always worked perfectly so long as I game on a 1080P monitor. My one issue though has been that this card could not deal with my 1440P/144Hz monitor making it difficult to stream without making compromises. When the 4K cards started showing up on the market I was sure that Elgato would come to the rescue and of course they did. At $400 its probably worth it. BUT then I ran into this gem. The Avermedia LiveGamer 4K at $299! I have had an Avermedia card in the past that I returned for poor performance so I was a little nervous about picking up this card. But for $100 off I figured I could always return it if it didn't perform well. I'm so glad I made this decision. The LiveGamer 4K works perfectly and I can finally have lag free 1440P 144Hz gaming while dumping all of the output to my streaming PC and right through the game capture. The LiveGamer 4K handles everything perfectly, doesn't get overly warm, and just works. I didn't even install anything but the drivers for the card (apparently you used to have to install their software to get the drivers but it is now available as a separate driver only download). I just dont see a reason to spend an extra $100 for the Elgato...at least in my setup. The LiveGamer 4K came well packaged, and included the HDMI 2.0 cable that I needed....though if your gaming PC and your streaming PC are far apart you'll need to make sure to pick up a longer one that meets that specification. The card was extremely simple to install and the drivers were easily available on Avermedia's site. I was up and running in no more than 5 minutes. There are no "settings" to make. Just pop open OBS or whatever you're using and it just shows up as a video capture device. On the Gaming PC I simply went into NVidia Control Panel and made sure the capture card showed 2560x1440 @ 144Hz and duplicated from the main display....that was literally it. So if you're in my situation looking for a way to send your gaming PC video to your streaming/recording PC at full resolution and frame-rate then this card will do the trick.

I recently upgraded to the **AVerMedia GC573 Live Gamer 4K** and I couldn't be more impressed. As someone who streams regularly and creates gaming content, this capture card has been an absolute game-changer! ### **4K Ultra HD & HDR Support:** The quality is unmatched! Recording and streaming in **4K at 60FPS** with **HDR** is mind-blowing. The colors are vibrant, and the footage is silky smooth, making my content look professional and polished. Even at 1080p, the card handles **240 FPS**, perfect for those who prefer ultra-high frame rates. ### **Low Latency Performance:** One of the standout features is the **ultra-low latency**. There's virtually no delay between the game and the captured footage, which is crucial for fast-paced games like shooters. It’s perfect for live streaming and ensures you’re always in sync with your audience. ### **Easy Setup & Integration:** Installation was a breeze, and it integrates seamlessly with OBS and other streaming software. The RECentral software that comes with it is intuitive, though you can use other programs if you prefer. The card also handles multi-tasking very well—stream, record, and play all at once without a hitch. ### **Perfect for Content Creation:** The AVermedia GC573 isn’t just for gamers; it’s perfect for anyone doing live event capture, video editing, or streaming. Whether you're doing gameplay, tutorials, or live shows, this card has all the professional-level features you need. If you're serious about quality and performance, the **AVerMedia GC573 Live Gamer 4K** is worth every penny. Highly recommended for gamers, streamers, and content creators who want the best!

After trying dual monitor option by sending signals to both monitor and streaming PC I was disappointed. Not capture card related but sluggishness and not having HDR in that option looked very bad and apparently there was no solution for HDR. Later I decided to try passtrough. 3440x1440 resolution and HDR works perfectly good. My only concern was input delay. However, I tested it with a very competitive game where I even notice 10-20ms delay and I couldn’t notice any additional input delay. So far so good. *Once I plug it to my old desktop’s PCI the vard flashed red for about 5minutes but later it automatically gets ready. I haven’t downloaded any app or driver update.

Okay here we go. I upgraded from my Elgato 60, mainly in order to capture hdr from my PC. Than, while I was ordering this, Nvidia launched a firmware update allowing hdr recording support. Although, this was purely for recording gameplay only (no webcam, no othet elements), and streaming was still out of the question, not to mention the video you get was not nearly hdr10. So, with all that said, once I got my hands on this fun device, I realized how unoptimized HDR recording codec was by nature. While many people may argue that capture cards are not the future of pc game streaming, I still think owning this device allows a lot of options unavailable otherwise. The tone-mapping feature that does its best to record hdr as sdr with little quality drops is good at vibrant hues, but saturation can be questionable at times. While I think there are better cheaper avenues to record HDR PC Games, I think this item is a must have for people experimenting with HDR streaming, and an easy but for people with 2 PC. I did avoid answering technical questions because I don't think I'm capable of doing so, but I can say that the wide screen support (2560 x1080 for me) is quite adaptive. I was able to play a game without widescreen support (SEKIRO) on a widescreen monitor, while rescaling the image to 1920 x 1080 on the capture card without any external software (HDR 60FPS). Very impressive. It's not a plug and play card if you plan to record PC so do t expect any miracles without trying. Learning what it's capable of doing can be fun, but probably frustrating for most people. And for those wondering, mounting this card on the pcle x8 slot created no delay or lag for my system, and did not interfere with my gpu performance, also mounted on pcle x8.

UPDATED: 20 August 2020 (one more 20 and we have a cop drama) Pro Tip, do NOT install the Windows Insider Preview builds. You WILL very likely have issues with capture cards, video input devices, and some multi-threaded applications (like OBS/Streamlabs OBS) I had to fully reinstall windows using the Media Creation tool, and set up a thumb drive, and then reinstalled fresh. As soon as Windows finished reinstalling fresh, I installed Streamlabs OBS and OBS Studio, Avermedia's setup software, drivers, RECCentral, and bam, everything works. OBS and SLOBS both have a "canvas" screen size which defaults to your stream PC's screen res. PS, if you're trying to set up 4K in OBS/SLOBS make sure you type in the custom resolution. (e.g. 3840x2160) in the Base and Output areas of the Video page in the Settings. ______________________________________ So, this thing did not want to be detected by my ASROCK Taichi x99 mobo. I slapped it into an Aorus TRX40 Master and it was detected immediately. I moved it back to the ASROCK board and boom instantly detected suddenly. Neat. So that killed most of my evening. The next day I spent much of the day trying to get OBS to detect and run the card. Every time I made even the slightest adjustment to any of my video input devices, they all froze immediately. OBS Studio and Streamlabs OBS (SLOBS) both had the same issues with video input devices, which PROBABLY have nothing to do with the Avermedia hardware. I loaded up my old XSPLIT account, installed XSPLIT, added the Avermedia Live Gamer 4K and it worked flawlessly. Set it to 4K for recording and streaming, 6000 bitrate (averages 3500 though) and boom, instantly worked, flawless streaming and recording. So I would give this 5 stars, except I'm STILL waiting to hear back from their support staff, and it's been over 24 hours since I filled out a ticket and left a VM. Soon as I hear back with some troubleshooting with OBS I'll update the review. I would rather use OBS considering most of my scenes / profiles are set up there, not to mention most of my Stream Deck actions are there as well, etc.

As a PCIe device, the expectation that this card will work or will at least recover after a failure should be the baseline. But no. This card constantly loses signal (especially when OSDs are open on devices), can't sync with any off-standard resolutions, vrr support is awful, passthrough quits when the signal breaks, and there haven't been firmware updates and the software updates are closing in on a year old. I've given the card everything it wants. Clear PCIe lanes, correct bios settings...and when it DOES work, it works OK (though HDR on it is a joke). But regardless, it just constantly pukes mid-capture. Not being USB, this is a HUGE issue as it can't be recovered through anything but a reboot. Removing/disabling in Device Manager does nothing. Pros: When it works, it works OK. PCIe is nice for those who want a compact setup without a bunch of extra cabling. Cons: Literally everything else. Bad performance, awful software, terrible support, bad VRR, HDR support, and most of all, it just stops working all the time. Avoid.

This capture card is the greatest card I've ever used I'm able to stream at 1080P 60 frames per second. No issues whatsoever plugged in to the motherboard into the PCIE slot Installed HDMI cable from gaming computer to my streaming computer Easy instructions to follow to install the software I use OBS with it no problem.

Love that there is pass-through with the PC powered OFF. Unfortunately, that doesn't benefit me due to audio routing, but never the less it's a great product.

Graba tus partidas, emite directos, todo con gran calidad y sencillez de uso. La instalación también es intuitiva y muy sencilla, prácticamente plug and play. No requiere de grandes conocimientos previos y captura todo tipo de aparatos (PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, consolas retro...). Es una excelente herramienta que da una calidad de imagen y sonido realmente buena sin necesidad de grandes ajustes. Ahorra espacio al ser interna. Se acompaña con un programa de edición y captura de video como es el Power Director, en una versión algo antigua eso sí, pero permite trabajar y editar en la mayoría de las situaciones más habituales, con lo que no es una gran pega esta versión, se le puede dar un uso mucho más que aceptable con muy buenos resultados. El programa sí requiere de algo más de práctica, pero como cualquier otro editor de video, una vez conocidos los pasos básicos es muy fácil de usar y conseguir los resultados que buscas.

Ótima qualidade

Je l’ai acheté pour l’offrir. D’après coque j’ai pu voir en terme de rendu, la qualité est vraiment là. Cette carte d’acquisition est l’équivalente de son concurrent mais moins chère. Je recommande

わかりやすい

I can only speak for my personal use case, and for what I bought this for, it's perfect. I bought the 4K Live Gamer for capturing 4K footage of retro games for my youtube channel and it's handled everything I have thrown at it with almost zero lag. If your intention is to use this capture card in a similar way to me, then it will do everything you want. I originally used this with the OSSC, with the 4K Live Gamer accepting every signal I input. I have since bought a Retrotink 5x, and while researching before buying the Retrotink, I saw many not getting the 1440 signal detected by the 4KLG. I bought it anyway, as 1080p was acceptable, and I wanted the composite signal the Retrotink accepts. I was pleasantly surprised when the 4KLG accepted every signal the Retrotink x5 output. This is the same for the OSSC, I saw scaremongering of the same type about OSSC not accepting signals, but unless I received some magical version of the 4KLG, everything works great. Consoles I have tried are as follows; NES, N64, SNES, Megadrive, Mastersystem, PS1, PS2 and OG Xbox. Note though, consoles that require it, have been modded to output an RGB signal (which most stock retro consoles will not do), and I have spent £100s buying the best quality retro cables and modding my consoles which helps the signal quality. Regardless though, at the end of the day, all these consoles signals are being processed through the OSSC or Retrotink 5x, so if you are planning to use these upscalers, this is the ultimate capture card. I cannot speak for older Retrotinks or the Framemeister, but I have seen people struggling with the signal swapping delay and video output of the Framemeister as it is old tech now. Not all is positive though, I found the customer support incredibly unhelpful. I don't believe English was the first language of person I was emailing, so I will go easy. I was getting a popping sound in the audio, and support E-mail reply I got was along the lines of "these are the common fixes, if it doesn't help, we won't offer any further support". I'm paraphrasing of course, but considering the fix had nothing to do with what they offered, I have very little trust in them to offer genuine support. I'll quickly run through some technical setup tips and problem fixes that I had in case it helps someone else. First off, PCIe has become far more complicated, so you might have speed problems based on the age and spec of your PC. PCIe has individual lanes that shares bandwidth when multiple devices are used. I would suggest not buying this if you don't have at least a gen 2 PCIe board, and even then, due to the bandwidth 4K uses, you might have issues if using less than Gen 3. Assuming your 16x lane is housing your GPU, you will probably be using the x8 lane for this card. This is important, because some motherboards will only allow either a M.2 NVME drive, or use of the PCIe slot not both. My point is, it's worth seriously looking into your motherboards specs and how you have configured it before you buy this as the 4x lane will probably be too slow for capturing 4K. Since buying this I have upgraded to an ASUS ROG x670 EXTREME motherboard, which is a top end £1k board paired with a Ryzen 9 7850x3d, if you have anything like this, this card will be no problem at all no matter how you configure it. My second point is related to the problem I was having with the audio cracking. Little embarrassing but make sure you are using good quality HDMI cables and I suggest not using a cable longer than 2m max. After I bought a high quality 4K cable, I realised there was a cable in the 4K Live Gamer box, so fool on me I suppose but it did fix the issue. I can confirm that long HDMI cables will lead to an unstable signal. For me, anything over 2M would cause the picture to keep dropping out. Regardless of the poor customer service, I still give this 5 stars as it really is a fantastic card. I had an Elgato 4K card and it was a nightmare, very picky about signals and cables, making it pretty much trash for what I wanted to use it for. So, in summary, if you are looking for a card that works great with OSSC and Retrotink 5x, this is a must buy over anything Elgato offers. I haven't tested it with modern consoles like PS5 and Xbox series X, but I really can't see it having any issues as they are the modern standard of video signal. Just to be clear, I am using this with a RTX4090, but I was using it in my backup rig with a 2080 Super, and it works just as good rendering a 4K capture. I cannot speak to the compatibility with AMD or Intel GPU's. Hope this helps. *UPADTE* Just a small update, I have since upgraded to the Ryzen 9950X3D, RTX 5090 and most importantly, the RetroTink 4k. Everything still works fine with the new hardware in 2025. As for the RetroTink 4K, the 4KLG handles everything just as good as the RT5X. I will probably upgrade to one of Avermedia's newer capture devices soon, not because the 4KLG is no longer usable, just because I need a second device. This card is still brilliant as of May 2025.