A ‘bad trading person always accuses their tools’ is undoubtedly a well -known phrase (although the ordinary wording is ‘works’, but come now, it’s 2025 now). The thing is, if you have recently had a tradition in your home to do some work, you may have noticed that if they are good at their jobs, they almost certainly had high quality tools. These first-class tools help them make the job good-you do not paint expansive living room walls with a violent, small old brush that has worn bristles.
Similarly, if you are a serious PC player-a eSports professional, even or a hopeful pro-use you do not use the ant standard mouse you have at work for your matches in the like of Valorant or League of Legends. You choose a top-notch game mouse that allows you to play to the fullest extent of your capabilities, and when it comes to such peripheral devices, there are clear reasons to go with Logitech G.
Causes that have meant top -Sports -teams like Navi, G2 -Sports, Team Isetics and Team BDS are equipped with Logitech G -hardware. These are outfits that have scored big winnings, such as PGL CS2 Major Copenhagen 2024, where Navi beat FaZe Clan to choose an example from many.
The Logitech G has made some narrative progress with its game mice in recent times, as part of a drive to make these peripheral devices the fastest and most responsive around – all of which are bound with the magic number eight, interesting enough.
8/88/888 – Numbers for victory
What is especially about eight then? Before this explanation, it is useful to draw a quick background here. When the Logitech G introduced its hero sensor – the sensor is the mouse’s engine, the component that sees and tracks the user’s movements with the device – and the company brought its first Lightspeed Gaming Mouse in 2016, it has been on a mission to develop faster and more accurate gaming mouse.
This ambition has resulted in a number of upgrades from the original hero sensor to Hero 25k, culminating with the Hero 2 sensor – each of them is more accurate and responsive than the last.
Most recently, late in 2024, the Hero 2 sensor was benefiting from what Logitech G called its ‘8/88/888 Update’, and yes, these are the aforementioned Magic Eights. What the collection of eight refers to is the update that upgrades the sensor in three ways: with a high enough frame to support an 8kHz voting speed capable of tracking to acceleration speeds of 88g and greater than 888 inches per second tracking.
Grateful eight
To break down these ‘8/88/888’ tech specifications could go deep into a lot of honestly unnecessary technical weeds. That said, it is definitely worth examining these specifications in detail, starting with the 8KHz voting speed.
The voting rate simply refers to the number of times per second, which Gaming Mouse reports its position to the PC it is connected. 8kHz means 8,000 reports of the mouse’s position every second or to look at it in a different way, eight packages of information about where the mouse is placed – and other actions except movement, such as button clicking – sent every millisecond. It is the key to achieving a very low level of latency, which can facilitate more accurate tracking of the mouse’s position in a given game (based on the data delivered to the game that has a greater level of accuracy).
And the ultra-low latency is amplified by the second figure, which is 88, and this refers to Hero 2’s update that allows the sensor to cope with an acceleration of up to 88g (G-FORCE). To put it into perspective, a fighter pilot can experience up to 9g under aerobatic maneuvers, so this is almost 10 times this level. What this means in practice is that how fast the Logitech G-mouse is whipped around Mousepad in Fast-Action Situations-for example. Snap, aiming for a shooting game-delivers it a lower latency and more consistent experience with the Hero 2 sensor compared to rival products.
Then there is the third figure that refers to 888 inches per second (IPS) tracking. This denotes the raw speed that any given mouse is capable of operating – in other words sweeping flaming quickly over Moousepad without losing information. Hero 2’s 888 IPs are especially the highest in the industry, and Logitech G claims it is 20% faster than the nearest rival gaming mouse -easy fast enough for even top Echelon Pro players.
Logitech G Pro Gaming Mouse
At this point, if you are sold on the idea of a Logitech G mouse as the ideal companion to help promote your professional gaming ambitions, can your next question be: What special model should I buy?
The top level of Logitech G’s gaming mouse that boasts the mentioned Hero 2 sensor (now furnished with the important 8/88/888 update) is Logitech G Pro x Superlight 2, Pro X Superlight 2 Dex and Pro 2 Lightspeed.
(Although Note that Pro 2 LightSpeed is not delivered with 8 KHz voting by default -it has 1 kHz as default, but you can upgrade to 8 kHz by buying the separate Pro Lightspeed receiver).
As the pro naming indicates, this is the choice of professional players when it comes to the Logitech G’s line-up and they are all wireless game mouse. So if you don’t like the feeling of an associated cord when it comes to quick flicks to turn off a quick head shot, you don’t have to worry about it.
If you are concerned that a wireless connection is somehow not as robust or responsive as a wired cable – don’t be. Logitech G has worked hard to ensure a reliable wireless connection with its gaming mice, and its light speed -peripheral devices are thoroughly tested in a full RF (radio frequency) validation process. These products are designed not only to work well in the home, but also to tackle wireless signal-tight environments such as a LAN tournament in a huge arena setting.
With all these Logitech G Pro-Series mice, you also get wireless charging (when paired with the Powerplay system) and memory profiles on board to save your settings. There is also RGB lighting and an ambidextrous design with Pro 2 Lightspeed.
Of course, there are other game mice in the Logitech G series, including the popular Logitech G502 x Plus as another premium option. There are also alternative choices for those with tighter budgets, such as the Logitech G309 Lightspeed, which is a very well -considered low -cost game mouse.
If you are a pro player, or do you hope to be a day – or maybe you just got a very competitive mindset when it comes to your online game – Logitech G has been covered with mice that provide in terms of speed, responsiveness and accuracy, not to mention reliability.
