AVerMedia Live Gamer Bolt vs. Live Gamer 4K: Which should you buy?

Thunder and Lightning

AVerMedia Live Gamer Bolt



$449 at Amazon

Pros


4K60 HDR capture
1080p at up to 240 FPS
Thoughtful design
Stunning quality footage
Virtually no impact on system resources


Cons


Can't be used without Thunderbolt 3
Expensive


Capture card performance this good has, until now, been reserved for internal units connected over PCIe, but the Live Gamer Bolt changes all that.





Desktop Champ

AVerMedia Live Gamer 4K



$230 at Newegg

Pros


4K60 HDR capture
1080p at up to 240 FPS
Heatsink to aid cooling
Stunning quality footage
Attractive price


Cons


Requires a desktop PC with a vacant PCIe slot


Indistinguishable performance compared to the Live Gamer Bolt but significantly less expensive in part thanks to having been on the market for a couple of years now.





The Live Gamer 4K is two years old now, but that just shows how far ahead of its time it was. Only now has an external capture card caught up to offer identical performance, and that's the L...