Swudloe 4K HD Capture Card
A 4K-passthrough capture stick with a 30 percent campaign, the highest rate in this category.
Tracked 2026-10-01. The retailer listing is the price you pay.
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Our take on the Swudloe 4K HD Capture Card
The Swudloe 4K capture card is a plug-and-play 1080p60 card for console streamers who want a 4K30 pass-through screen.
Its tracked $39.99 has not moved across 3 points from August 26 to October 1, 2026. The listing says it records 1080p at 60fps in uncompressed YUY2 format. It passes through up to 4K at 30Hz, so the screen you play on can be sharper than your stream. It weighs 88.5 g, needs no driver and no power supply. It lists Switch 2, Switch OLED and PlayStation consoles as supported. Retailer rating is 4.4 across 590 ratings.
- Uncompressed YUY2 1080p at 60fps recording
- No driver or power supply needed
- 590 retailer ratings give a solid sample
- Pass-through tops out at 4K30
- Capture is limited to 1080p60
- Price history is only 3 flat points
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 |
| Max passthrough | 4K in, 1080p60 capture |
| Form | USB stick |
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Swudloe 4K HD Capture Card
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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.