Razer Kio vs. Logitech C920: The Ultimate Webcam Comparison

if you've been in the market for a name brand webcam but you didn't want to spend too much money

the razer kio may have crossed your path at some point at the sub 100 price range it's aimed to compete with

other more popular budget webcams like the ubiquitous c920 for example but in 2021 how does this webcam stack

up to logitech well let's find out [Music] all right so let's start with the

unboxing upon opening the box you get a little thank you note from razer some documentation with some stickers

inside and then of course you get the webcam itself the kio has a resolution of 1080p

at 30 frames a second and 720p at 60 frames per second but i'll talk a bit more about that later it

has a quarter inch mount if you want to attach it to a tripod otherwise you can simply place it on top

of a monitor like most other webcams you can tilt the camera up or down like a lot of standard webcams but sadly unlike

its pro variant there is no swivel option the biggest highlight to this webcam is undoubtedly the built-in ring

light it turns on by default when you plug it in and can be dimmed or brightened with

the turn of its built-in dial it downloads the razer synapse software when you first plug it in and

it's honestly a bit underwhelming since it doesn't go into too much depth in terms of the tweaks that you can make

you have some basic controls and some presets you can apply but there's not much else if you need to make any

adjustments just do it through obs and you'll be fine speaking of obs this is a webcam after

all so let's go ahead and put it through its paces and make some comparisons to that of the

c920 all right so we have both webcam setup and obs i have the razer keyo right here um

which is at the bottom of your screen and then we have the logitech c920 which is at the top

um i have the c920 myself and yeah this i basically chose this because it is the probably the most

popular the most ubiquitous whatever you want to use for webcams out there and it's about the same price range

right now on amazon in comparison to that of the keo um i do have the kios uh ring light set

to max right now and i will play with the settings a little bit as we go on

um i have three different settings uh excuse me three different scenes set up so we can take a look here

um we have the keo and then we have the c920 in case you wanted to see these images in large so um

first impressions right off the bat with the keo here um i think the image looks fine um

it really it looks very similar to the c920 i i wouldn't be surprised if i found out a lot of the hardware or

the the same hardware was used in the keo that is in the c920 if i were to venture a guess i'd probably

guess that the software side of things is the most differentiating thing between these two cameras

but then again i don't really know to be completely honest with you i could be totally wrong for immediate first

impressions with the kio in comparison to the c920 um i don't and i don't know if this will

show up very well on youtube or not the keo right off the gate seems to have

much better colors i think right out the gate the colors seem much more

natural the logitech seems to especially with skin tones tends to make my face a little bit pink

i'll i'll switch over to the uh logitech here all right so the logitech as you can see

um it makes my skin a little pinkish just at default settings you know you can you can tweak this a little bit

um in the settings on obs and that sort of thing um but yeah i think colors overall look

just a little bit better on the razer keyo um let's go back here and yeah i the other thing i do notice

more so in a negative light with the keo and and maybe it's just me um maybe we'll we'll be able to tell

better once we upload this to youtube obviously but it seems that with uh this way oh in

it with darker colors and that sort of thing um there's a lot of camera noise it seems to have

a much tougher time with like lower light colors or darker colors or whatever the words that i'm trying to

say are there's camera noise um right around the couch and i noticed like on the dark parts of this cabinet

here whereas the c920 seems to not have as much of a problem with that

um one other thing i do want to mention too is it may seem that the kio has a bit wider depth of field

i it does look that way to me just by a thin margin but again these cameras aren't

perfectly aligned with each other so um i'm going to just say that they're roughly the same uh

let's go ahead and turn the ring light on this guy all the way down so i turned it off now

the ring light is completely off um it looks fine with or without the ring light i think the ring light is

just like that extra bonus feature if you have it in a well lit room

one thing i will say if you have all the lights off the ring light isn't gonna do much it's

just a tiny little light and it's just gonna look like you're shining a flashlight into your face in fact

i will be right back and quickly edit this out i'll turn the lights off and i'll show

you what i mean all right so man this looks terrible on a webcam um the lights are off all the lights all

the overhead lights are off this is how it would look if you had say

two leds on the outside of your desk because that's what i have i have two led lamps on each side of the desk right

now and that's the only light source apart from the keo ring light right here um

if i turn this off you will see that they kind of perform the same i'm just going to go ahead and take it a step

further and turn these lamps off okay so now everything in this room is

pretty much pitch black um the only light is really coming from my computer monitor here

so if you you can see with the kio there is a lot of noise going on this is what i was

talking about um a little out of focus there um yeah there we go um there's a lot of

there's a lot of noise in low light so let's turn that back up and just see how this light handles with

okay so now yep see this is exactly what i'm talking about um it's just kind of the ring light if you don't have proper

lighting in your room it's just going to seem like a big flashlight on your face which for some

people it might not matter and yeah i guess this is a good segue to to my next point but yeah as you can

see like this is the c920 um you don't get as much camera noise right here

like you did with the kio um you see some of it kind of right around here right on this gray

part of the cabinet but there's far less compared to that of the keo if we go back

to that and now we just get a lot and i don't know maybe this doesn't show up on youtube i hope it does but definitely in

obs i can clearly see this and the autofocus especially

um really seems to struggle here so even even if i turn the light on here and it just looks like i'm

shining this like weird light on my face and it looks really bad um but yeah let's fix the lighting here

and i'll continue to talk about these all right much better um let's let's go back to

what i was talking about before with the autofocus uh the autofocus on the keo

is probably another weak point if i'm to compare these two webcams um you may have

noticed a lot of that like kind of almost shaking camera that pulsing that you see that's the camera trying to

autofocus um it it does fine it seems i don't seem to go blurry a lot if

i'm in a well-lit room but it's still it seems to be trying hard to focus a lot you know if we go back to the c920

here um the autofocus has been turned on this whole time i have both

i'm set to default as far as settings go and obs and i have autofocus auto white balance

auto exposure all on and i think both of these webcams side by side seem to look fine as they

are they just have their kind of own pros and cons um let's start with the

let's go into the c920 again personally i don't like the colors as much how the colors look compared to the keo

and you know this could be just like a sample size of one thing because it's only happened to me and i don't

know other people's experiences with it but with the kio every time i've plugged it in and i've used it

it just has worked every single time i i had no issues of it crashing or freezing or anything like that

just in trying to record this video i've had the logitech webcam crashed twice and i've had to

unplug it and plug it back in or hit deactivate and activate on obs and i admit the c920 is an older webcam

so take that with a grain of salt um but in just in my personal experience you know

if you're looking at the c920 or you're looking at the razer keyo functionality wise the keel works

um it does have its gripes that autofocus is a little bit annoying but you can you

can turn that off and you can dial it in exactly to what you want and that's what i would recommend doing if you're doing

something like like live streaming um if you're doing like a work call or

or using it for school it doesn't really matter that doesn't that sort of thing doesn't matter

um so yeah i think that's covered everything uh one last thing i wanted to mention

too is um some of you who may be interested in doing live streaming for gaming

um you may be interested in the keo because of its 60 frames per second advertised uh frame rate and

okay here's the thing it does work at 720p but i don't recommend using this not

because it's a 720p because i mean if you're streaming as you can see on the screen here it's so

small that it doesn't really make that big of a difference however for me at least

when using this and please let me know in the comments if i am wrong to anybody who might have this webcam

but from what i've gathered the 60 frames a second thing only really works if you turn auto exposure off and i'll

just show you how that looks in a second and it's not pretty okay so i have set the kio to 720p at 60

frames a second and as you can probably tell um one is much more fluid than the other

if i wave my hand or move my fingers that sort of thing um but it's not really worth it to me

because when you turn the auto exposure off if i were to crank the exposure anymore

it looks really bad and if i try to turn the exposure down it looks

really bad so um yeah it's just it doesn't work out that well especially for a webcam when it's something that

you kind of just want to set and forget kind of thing you want to just plug in and play

um getting rid of auto exposure is something that's really kind of baffling and i wouldn't really recommend

doing that personally um i mean teach their own if this is something that you can make work

excellent um but for most people who are using a webcam you're using it for budget and for simplicity

and personally i just wouldn't recommend using the 60 frames a second stick to 1080p 30 get that higher

resolution and yeah nobody's gonna really care if your camera's at 30 frames a second

if you want 60 frames a second just set your gameplay to 60 frames a second that's all people really care about

all right so we're back to 1080p at 30 frames a second and yeah i think as far as this setting goes both webcams

are excellent right out the gate i think the keo looks fine

again with these webcams make sure you're in a well-lit room because they're just webcams after all but

the kio does not seem to handle low light as well as the logitech does um the logitech

seems to work really well however if for some reason with skin tones it seems to at least for me anyway

it makes everything just a little pinkish but then again with the logitech camera the autofocus is just miles

better than the kiosk so you know you just kind of have to decide what you like in terms of your

overall visual quality you can of course tweak a lot of different things in the settings on obs

but yeah this is basically what you get with these cameras as far as visual quality goes

let's quickly talk about audio all right so this is the microphone for the razer kio i'm about a foot and a

half away and as you can tell it's not very good it's a webcam microphone it's usually the feature

on webcams that are focused on the least because with webcams you're trying to get

the best visual quality in a small form factor so either of these webcam microphones

aren't going to sound very good let's head over to the c920 all right and this is the

logitech built-in microphone as you can hear it's not very good either um again their webcam microphones

you get what you get and i don't really recommend using these if you're streaming

just use any sort of usb mic that you can get or a headset microphone if you're using this for conference calls

for work or for school or something like that they'll do the job fine the logitech

microphone is a bit more sensitive than the keos if we switch back to that so yeah the

keo is a little less sensitive and because of that i kind of tend to prefer that just a little bit more

i don't like how harsh the c920 sounds by comparison to the kio that being said they're both webcam microphones they

both sound fine for what they are again this is all basically subjective opinion

yeah we're back to the um kind of overall stream windows here and yeah that was

the audio and the video of these webcams i hope this was a helpful comparison for you

if you have any questions let me know in the comments down below i'll try to answer them

as best as i can so what are my thoughts overall on this webcam by and large i think the razer keo is a perfectly fine

webcam especially for its price point i mean it's not perfect by any means don't get me wrong it definitely has its

gripes as i've mentioned i do think the built-in ring light is a nice feature but basically

if you just need a good 1080p 30 frames a second video signal then yeah this webcam will do just fine

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