Elgato, a division of Corsair, made its name as a leading manufacturer for PC capture cards. The recent trend of streaming your playing skills to platforms such as Twitch and YouTube has brought such cards into sharper focus for a wide range of gamers and enthusiasts. Building on this momentum, Elgato has this week released a new high-performance capture card called the 4K60 Pro V2.

The original model is presented in a full-size PCIe form factor. V2, meanwhile, shrinks this to half-height PCIe 2.0 x4, as you can see from the picture above, and Elgato bundles in a half-height bracket for use in small form factor PCs, which is a sensible move. The accompanying software runs solely on Windows 10 - so no Linux or Mac - and requires a 6th Gen Core or Ryzen 7 CPU along with a graphics card capable of HEVC encoding.