Are Wireless Mice ACTUALLY Faster??

[JonoT]

 

We tested five wired and wireless mice with the Phantom Flex 4K camera at 1000 FPS to see if wireless mice were faster than wired!

 

Buy: Logitech G703
On Amazon: https://geni.us/myuNy
On NewEgg: https://geni.us/i26tnPk

 

Buy: Logitech G MX518
On Amazon: https://geni.us/yHTc
On NewEgg: https://geni.us/uJYz

 

Buy: CORSAIR Dark Core SE
On Amazon: https://geni.us/CFbMAH
On NewEgg: https://geni.us/7wSz3

 

Buy: Logitech® MX Anywhere 2S
On Amazon: https://geni.us/AH2U
On NewEgg: https://geni.us/CpIa

 

[DrMacintosh]

Shooting the video at 24fps from a camera that's moving around a lot is a bad time. I noticed the choppiness a lot in the first 2 minutes. Increase the frame rate or keep the cameras more stable. 

[PeterBocan]

As I thought, you really bought that 4K 1k FPS camera?  Geez. What's Brandon's opinion on it? ;D

 

... so will you do a PS/2 and USB comparison?

[omniful]

It seems like an opportunity was missed here to include a sample for those in the Razer product environment. Maybe they make fewer latency claims and get less pro play, but their consumer market share is sizeable.

[tenfootgiant]

For Corsair, Darkcore is advertised as a 1ms mouse, not sub 1ms.  The Ironclaw is advertised as sub 1ms. From their website:

 

 

DARK CORE RGB features ultra-fast 1ms wireless, Bluetooth® compatibility and wired mode for performance gaming with versatile connectivity. The custom, high-accuracy 16000 DPI optical sensor and comfort-contoured shape ensures precision and control.

 

The CORSAIR IRONCLAW RGB WIRELESS Gaming Mouse combines a native 18,000 DPI optical sensor with a comfortable palm grip, connecting to your PC via hyper-fast, sub-1ms SLIPSTREAM CORSAIR WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY, Bluetooth or USB wired connection.

 

 

[mariushm]

Unless they come up with an internal pci-e card, you're still gonna be limited by the USB polling rate, which is 1ms at best (default is 125 Hz or an update every 8 ms)

[mariushm]

Also to add... you could have soldered two wires directly under the left click button and use that as a way to detect when click happens or to simulate a click (and also use that as a trigger, for the camera... for example light a led or something when click happens)

 

Would be also interesting to have the mouse locked in place and just short the wires to make the mouse think you pressed the button, without actually touching the mouse.

The idea is that a wireless mouse may go to "sleep mode" to save battery power after a few seconds of no movement, so by shorting the wires to fake a mouse click you're guaranteeing you're not waking up the mouse before the actual click.

So, you can measure the latency between fake click on button and when the click is recognized in the operating system  - you'll have wake up latency, transmission, the 1ms polling time in Windows then whatever amount of processing time the driver needs inside Windows.

 

The video is kinda crappy, the motion of that hammer moving down towards the mouse could be enough to shake the bench or vibrate it enough for the mouse to wake up from battery saving mode.

[Lex0314]

I would love to see the Glorious Model O tested along with the Razer line.

[GreatMCGamer]

Hey Linus Group, Did non of you Remember the 480Hz screen that you have in the storage somewhere? Or did you have to send it back?
https://youtu.be/rG_a7Qs2odc?t=325

[schmism]

So your going to milk this topic for another video or you really missed an opportunity to compare some more mice.  

 

Id love to see other mice tossed into this showdown

$7 amazon basic wired mouse

$40 razer death adder  (cough razer sponser cough)

 

What does bluetooth connection look like?

What does wireless receiver dongle plugged in under the desk 5' away look like?

What does plugged in to the slow-ass-USB-monitor-hub look like?  (both wired and wireless)

 

Looking forward to part 2 of this vid!

[papajo]

2 hours ago, JonoT said:

 

We tested five wired and wireless mice with the Phantom Flex 4K camera at 1000 FPS to see if wireless mice were faster than wired!

 

Buy: Logitech G703
On Amazon: https://geni.us/myuNy
On NewEgg: https://geni.us/i26tnPk

 

Buy: Logitech G MX518
On Amazon: https://geni.us/yHTc
On NewEgg: https://geni.us/uJYz

 

Buy: CORSAIR Dark Core SE
On Amazon: https://geni.us/CFbMAH
On NewEgg: https://geni.us/7wSz3

 

Buy: Logitech® MX Anywhere 2S
On Amazon: https://geni.us/AH2U
On NewEgg: https://geni.us/CpIa

 

Now do more mice and also test clicks! (there could be a difference between clicks versus sensor movement in the processing pipeline of the controller of the mouse and so on and so forth)

 

And also test different windows and GPU/CPU/mobo configs to see if any particular architecture/brand combination gives lower latency (linux would be interesting to be included as well)

 

It would be great to have a matrix with all the results of the most reputable mice out there and you will be the first ones to do it!  

[Edzel Yago]

1 hour ago, schmism said:

So your going to milk this topic for another video or you really missed an opportunity to compare some more mice.  

 

Id love to see other mice tossed into this showdown

$7 amazon basic wired mouse

$40 razer death adder  (cough razer sponser cough)

 

What does bluetooth connection look like?

What does wireless receiver dongle plugged in under the desk 5' away look like?

What does plugged in to the slow-ass-USB-monitor-hub look like?  (both wired and wireless)

 

Looking forward to part 2 of this vid!

 

I REALLY wanted to do more mice but it was a matter of restricted time. We had rented the camera for the shoot with Gav (day 1) and had to return it the next day. We said we'd return it by 3 (have it leave the office at 1). Which meant we had to do the spoken bit, do the tests, some analysis to make sure things were good, then finish the tests within a few hours AND ingest the footage (which is painfully slow).

 

=P NEXT time though!

[relaxation]

I see input lag measured around the internet,

 

WydD (Medium.com)

• Wired PS4 controller vs Wireless, measured via USB Host Shield (1ms device), Wireless on avg was 7.3 to 1.8 ms quicker depending on the dongle, coming in at 3ms avg with a good one. Plus other arcade sticks.

 

Rocket Science (youtube.com)

• photosensitive diode vs 1K FPS camera setup, camera was 1ms quicker
• razor naga vs arduino, arduino was 4.4ms quicker despite both being 1000Hz (1ms) devices
• the arduino had 10.8ms of total response time

TFTCentral (TFTCentral.co.uk)

• The quickest monitor measured with their own photosensitive diode&oscilloscope scope system, Asus ROG Swift PG279Q, 3.25ms total display lag
• The PG35VQ@200Hz has a measured 2~3ms g2g at certain shades

LTT (youtube.com)

• XL2730Z@200Hz avg of 21.5 frames/960FPS of input lag or, 21.5/960*1000, 22.4ms total

So this recent video of yours you've got the Acer FX250Q or A monitor which I couldn't find 3rd party measurements for, anyway you've got sub 14ms response times now.. so I've seen a fast clicking arduino with a 10.8ms total response time and your quickest mouse response of 13ms total response time, both on 240Hz monitors. 

 

TL;DR version - I'd say after a certain point the game engine (larger part?) and display must be the bottle neck if a USB Host Shield, intercept signals from devices like you described at the beginning of your video (check medium link for more info), can measure button response time avg of 3ms on a PS4 pad over a good bluetooth dongle.

 

Would that be fair to say?

[Kibelok]

I loved the video but you guys missed a TON of opportunities, like:

Testing with different types of mousepads, with different surfaces, such as Logitechs Powerplay, Artisan Shidenkai, Madcatz Glide 38, Steelseries Qck and etc. (maybe this is why u cant reach 1ms?)

Testing with different DPIs, 400 and 800 (used by most CSGO pros), then 1600, 3200 and up.

Testing microstutter using different Polling Rate. Yes it does make a huge difference using 1000mhz polling rate and you can actually see it.

Testing different games.

[adam10603]

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[Guest]

15 hours ago, PeterBocan said:

As I thought, you really bought that 4K 1k FPS camera?  Geez. What's Brandon's opinion on it? ;D

 

... so will you do a PS/2 and USB comparison?

He said at the beginning that they rented it.

[Guest]

I also wanted to point out some neat ideas I saw in the comments, like doing a video on screen tearing in slow motion would be nice. And also just testing other mice, such as cheap office ones, the MX series, and whatever regardless of whether they're wireless or wired. And finally testing in the Linux low-latency kernel.

[Arika]

16 hours ago, Miracle Nachos said:

The fact that you chose to do it on a video featuring a high-speed camera recording reaction times just adds insult to injury.

you know that makes no sense right? increasing the frame rate of the playback video reduces the effectiveness of the high speed,

 

from the man himself

 

 

[an actual squirrel]

So, 500hz polling rate is actually a problem in certain scenarios. If you have a 240hz tn panel with strobing backlight, you have a fast enough panel with enough motion clarity that you can actually see the cursor stuttering from the low poll rate.

[an actual squirrel]

9 hours ago, Arika S said:

you know that makes no sense right? increasing the frame rate of the playback video reduces the effectiveness of the high speed,

 

from the man himself

 

I imagine you can just play the slow mo frames twice to effectively halve the frame rate of that part, while keeping a high frame rate for Linus.

[mr moose]

I don't understand the point beyond interest.  Is there an observation of better outcomes from having reduced latency even at these levels?  surely it can't have anything to do with human involvement because the average reaction time to visual stimulus is 180ms and it seems we are talking lag in single digit ms.  That's more than ten times faster,  which can only increase reaction accuracy by less the 1% at best. 

[Stig Vildmark]

The test server had a tick-rate of 64. 

That means that all engine calculations were done 64 times per second.

Movements, positions, netcode, hitdetection almost everything in the game is updated once every 15.625 ms.

 

1 / 64 = 0.015625

15.625 ms of engine latency
+- 1 ms margin of error for the high speed camera.

 

All of the movements were capped by the engine. The net_graph keeps updating after the refresh-rate, it does not use the same clock. You will have to increase the tick-rate to get a result under 14.625 ms. The lesson is that you should use a tick-rate of at least 1000 when making a test like this.

[Stig Vildmark]

All you get with a high refresh-rate monitor is more draws with a lower buffer latency. A 60 Hz monitor takes the latest frame every 16.66 ms in the buffer and draws it upon itself. A 240 Hz monitor takes the latest frame every 4.16 ms.

 

The rendering takes time but lets keep it simple

A frame can be 0.000000001 - 16.6666666 ms old in the buffer with a 60 Hz monitor. 

A frame can be 0.000000001 - 4.16666666 ms old in the buffer with a 240 Hz monitor. 

 

A higher refresh-rate will reduce the maximum time a frame can lay and wait, before it is grabbed and drawn on a monitor. Under the right circumstances, you can reduce this time by 12.5 ms. But you can also reduce the frame age by rendering more frames faster. Placing a new frame just before the monitor grabs the latest.

 

Old CRT monitors were particle accelerator where the accelerating anode turns the electrons into a high speed-beam of electrons. That gain around 600km/s for every volt they are accelerated through. A LCD monitor is unfortunately not as fast and the drawing process can take a lot of time. The picture can be very difficult to interpret during this period and should therefor be included as latency. Let's call it LCD blur.

 

There is a very noticeable reduction in delay by reducing rendering times and using a high refresh-rate monitor.

But it's far better to just ignore the game all together and make your own low latency application for testing a mouse. So you can test without additional latency and make it a battle of who has the lower latency, a mouse or the monitor? But it would be a waste of time, since Linus have already demonstrated how tick-rate holds you back where such gains matters, Gaming. 

 

You can get your 240 Hz and 1000 fps with no positional difference of the characters. You could not compare the gaming mouses due to the tick-rate. The Smoothness is capped by the tick-rate. The engine made its calculations 64 times per second.

[Stig Vildmark]

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[adam10603]

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