So for USB latency we can see that the Deathadder Chroma has been improved over the 2013, but ROG’s Gladius is fractionally better. Therefore it might be worthwhile to stick with the 1000Hz setting and avoid the extra load on the cpu and usb bus. The Gladius on the other hand shows significantly better performance at 1000Hz.Īt 2000Hz the Gladius is the only contender – and while it’s average latency is less, the lag spikes are about the same as the 1000Hz setting. However the Deathadder Chroma is no worse than it’s 500Hz performance, suggesting that the 1000Hz is a better setting for it even if it’s not truly giving 1ms intervals reliably. It’s clear then that Razer have improved this performance.Īt 1000Hz we start to see the Deathadder 2013 really struggle and we’d suggest that perhaps 500Hz is a better setting for it. However the Deathadder 2013 shows significantly worse behavior and a ton more jitter. Although it averages out to these numbers there can be some significant lag spikes.Īt 500hz ~99% of the Chroma’s and Gladius’s data is below 4ms. However we see that it is not quite perfect. Ideally the polling would be a flat line at 2ms for 500Hz, 1ms for 1000Hz and 0.5ms for 2000Hz. There are two things to look for here – stability and outliers. Bear in mind because the y axis varies that some plots look better than others. You will need to zoom in on that image to really look at the data.
For this test we drew a spiral pattern and the MouseTester software recorded the latency between datapoints:
Let’s compare the 500Hz and 1000Hz settings of both, while also throwing in the 2000Hz mode of the ROG Gladius mouse. The Deathadder Chroma boasts 1000Hz ultrapolling, as did the previous generation 2013 Deathadder.
Testing mice is somewhat arbitrary and unstandardized sadly, but we will be using microe’s MouseTester software to do what we can here.įirst off let’s look at the USB polling.