AVerMedia Live Gamer Ultra 2.1 GC553G2

[Inle]

Content creators had to be patient to get their hands on an HDMI 2.1 capture card, but the AVerMedia Live Gamer Ultra 2.1 made the wait worthwhile. With its impressive video capture and passthrough capabilities, it stands out as the best capture card launched in recent times.

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[PilleniusMC]

This is such a cool device, but I'm still waiting on the PCIe variant of it, from the Computex coverage of it, it should support higher refresh rate recording than this USB one.

 

[Lianna]

This is a "capture card", not "streaming only card": a negative would be lack of a standalone recording mode (say, on SDXC cards, like on e.g. Elgato Game Capture 4K60 S+), which would allow it to record 4k60 HDR (Elgato: in H.265, up to 140 Mbps). Elgato Game Capture 4K60 S+ has HDMI 2.0 with 4k60 limit and no VRR support, so something with passthrough capabilities of reviewed AverMedia but with standalone recording would be ideal.

 

[THU31]

I have the previous model and it's a good capture card, but it has some issues.

One I've seen mentioned by many people on the internet - audio and video can go out of sync randomly when you set up the card as a single A/V source in OBS, just like it was shown in this article. Pretty much the only way to fix it was to set up a separate audio capture source for the HDMI input, and then mute the Live Gamer Ultra A/V source.
I've had that happen once every few sessions and it was infuriating.

Another thing I've experienced is that I had to enable buffering in the source configuration. Without this the capture would randomly start stuttering for ~30 seconds, about once an hour. Very noticeable with synced framerates (e.g. playing and capturing at locked 60 FPS). Buffering does add a bit of latency, but the capture is absolutely perfect.


I wonder if these issues can still pop up with this new model. But if I ever upgrade, I'll probably go for the internal model. I chose a USB card because I was planning on using it with a laptop, but I scrapped that idea later.

 

[ir_cow]

What is the chroma sampling specs ?

 

[AnarchoPrimitiv]

Was videocard was used in the testing? Did you try it with a Radeon card? Avermedia's website only lists Nvidia cards under the requirements and while I can't think of a reason why a Radeon card would not work, it's probably prudent to ask...

 

[Inle]

Was videocard was used in the testing? Did you try it with a Radeon card? Avermedia's website only lists Nvidia cards under the requirements and while I can't think of a reason why a Radeon card would not work, it's probably prudent to ask...

Testing was done on an AMD Radeon 7900 XTX, with no issues whatsoever.