Anyone got a spec breakdown?

was wondering if anyone had a side by side comparison

Elgato is trash, I would be surprised if EVGA quality and latency was worse.

RchUncleSkeleton

risingson
Elgato is trash, I would be surprised if EVGA quality and latency was worse.

I'm curious on how you came to the conclusion that Elgato is trash? Especially considering they're essentially the biggest player in the consumer capture card market. What exact Elgato products have you used and what issues did you find with them?

Because their cards are the lowest quality. They just have the highest brand recognition by gamers, which sucks nobody knows better than to buy their trash cards. Ok, I will admit I have only tested their HD60 Pro, but as the PCI-E card, this should be their best offering at 1080p and representative of what else they offer. Now I was only in the market for a capture card so I could play my Nintendo Switch on PC so I was directly concerned with image quality and latency. I borrowed a HD60 Pro from my friend and tried it out. It worked ok, their software was buggy. I noticed a degradation in image quality compared to when I had the switched hooked up to my monitor directly through HDMI.
 
While searching for other potential capture cards I became aware of the Avermedia Live Gamer HD2 and began to search for comparisons. This is the video which made my decision https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGq-MMwHAHE in which you can see the difference in quality in the side by side comparisons. Getting the Avermedia card in person confirmed the findings of the video and I had taken off screen photos for comparison (I probably could have just print screen screenshotted lol) of the most aliased images I was seeing where the quality was most easily identifiable, which happened to be the red X in the Xenoblade games on Nintendo Switch home screen.
 
After switching to Linux I had to find a new capture card as the Avermedia has no Linux drivers. I ended up with the Magewell Pro Capture HDMI which has even better quality and latency than the Avermedia and is absolutely the best thing available at 1080p.
 
So I am not sure how EVGA's cards stack up but my ranking is as follows for 1080p
 
Cream of the crop- Magewell Pro Capture HDMI
Great if you want to spend less- Avermedia Live Gamer HD2
Trash- Elgato HD60 Pro

risingson
Elgato is trash, I would be surprised if EVGA quality and latency was worse.

Elgato is definitely not "trash," you just have to be willing to spend money on the best of what they got. Elgato's 4k60 capture card is perfectly fine, but I am quite interested in this EVGA one, it looks pretty. I hope it's more than just looks.

I was really interested in the xr1, but it seems to be more geared towards console game streaming, where the elgato is just great all around. For high end streaming elgato is the better choice. If evga releases a top tier one then i would definitely buy that over elgato , based on customer service alone.

El Gato is amazing but this is new and could surprise you.

CanuckHoser
my curiousity is definitely piqued.

Same! It looks very cool, I'm intrigued to hear/read some reviews

I stand behind Avermedia, I have 2 of their capture cards and work great for me!