AVerMedia Live Gamer Ultra GC553
External 4K30 capture with 4K60 HDR passthrough over USB 3.1. The mid-price console or camera capture box.
Tracked 2026-10-19. The retailer listing is the price you pay.
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Our take on the AVerMedia Live Gamer Ultra GC553
The AVerMedia Live Gamer Ultra GC553 is a USB capture card that records up to 4K at 30fps and passes 4K 60 HDR through to a monitor. It suits console streamers who want to play on a TV or monitor with no delay. At a tracked $239.94 it sits at the top of its $200.87 to $239.94 range from August 25 to October 19, 2026.
The listing also gives 1440p60 and 1080p120 recording. It says high frame rate and HDR recording need an NVIDIA graphics card, so check your PC before you buy. The pass-through is meant to keep latency low. Price is at its tracked high, about $39 over its low. It has 4.3 across 768 retailer ratings.
- 4K 60 HDR pass-through to a monitor
- Records 1440p60 and 1080p120
- Compact size for a desk
- High frame rate and HDR need an NVIDIA GPU
- Tracked price is at its high, $39 over the low
- 4K recording is capped at 30fps
Where it fits in a build
Pulls an HDMI camera feed into an encoder or PC. Skip it if your camera is USB or a phone. See every capture card pick
| Input | HDMI 2.0 |
| Max passthrough | 4K30 capture, 4K60 HDR passthrough |
| Form | USB 3.1 box |
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AVerMedia Live Gamer Ultra GC553
$239.94Tracked 2026-10-19
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We do not lab-test hardware. Ratings and review counts come from the retailer listing and are labelled as such; stream-quality figures are conservative planning budgets from our published model. Prices are tracked at build time, not live, and were last refreshed 2026-10-22. How the numbers are derived: methodology. How picks are chosen: editorial policy.