For serious streamers—especially those who create gaming content—a video capture card is an essential. Sleek, accessible, and engineered for uncompromising performance, the Elgato Game Capture Neo is an excellent choice Read More
For "serious streamers", maybe 1080p60fps is fine - just know that with the new generation of consoles, you typically are going to want to capture at native resolution of 4k60fps, and perhaps even in HDR, especially if you're producing edited content for platforms like youtube. Elgato does sell capture cards which do this, and have so for awhile (https://www.elgato.com/us/en/p/game-capture-4k60-pro). Just make sure you know what you're buying.