This is the comparison between the Logitech G305 and Corsair Harpoon. Both are wireless and have great design and features, but still, there are many differences. Through this comparison, you will get a clear idea that which one is best for you.

Logitech G305 Lightspeed	Corsair Harpoon RGB Wireless
BUY NOW	BUY NOW
PROS	PROS
Comfortable. Sleek design. Great wireless features. Inexpensive. Easy to use.	Great sensor performance. Low click latency. Portable and fairly lightweight. Lots of connectivity options. Impressive battery life.
CONS	CONS
No Bluetooth connectivity. Requires AA batteries.	Not the most comfortable. Buried charging port. Might trouble larger hands.

SPECIFICATIONS:

Detailed Review

INTRODUCTION:

Logitech G305 Lightspeed

Logitech G305 is one of the most popular wireless gaming mice. This mouse is available in black, white, purple, and blue. G305 is similar in design to Logitech G Pro, which is also very popular. It has great performance with the latest technology at an affordable price.

Corsair Harpoon RGB Wireless 

The Corsair Harpoon RGB wireless is an impressive gaming mouse and is the first small-form-factor wireless mouse. The mouse is worth $49 which is affordable. It has great sensor performance, long battery life, and easy charging. It’s good for FPS games. The click latency is quite low, it’s DPI is customizable.

DESIGN & COMFORT:

Logitech G305 Lightspeed

A lot of people considered one thing as a drawback is the design of Logitech G305, which is pretty plain, especially in black. The matte plastic shell doesn’t look premium, and since there’s no RGB lighting, you’re gonna lose about 10 FPS in your favorite online shooter. The weight reduction with no RGB is a big bonus and I greatly appreciate that it’s not present.

The overall shape of this Mouse isn’t perfect for my particular hands and I find the back sloped downwards too gradually and  I’m afraid using the mouse with its back cover completely removed. The side slope into the bottom of the mouse a little too much as well, also I’d rather have the side recess slightly into the mouse rather than bulging outwards, it means I’ve gotten used to the shape.

The G305 weighs only 89 grams with a lithium battery installed. A mouse size for you generally depends on your own particular hand size, or more importantly what feels most comfortable which also comes down to shape.

Corsair Harpoon RGB Wireless

If you’re already familiar with the wired version of the Harpoon Mouse, not much has changed in overall design except for the small light on the DPI switch to help you indicate which profile you’re on, not a necessary feature but a nice one to have nonetheless. The mouse is overall made up of a plastic shell on the top and the bottom. There are rubberized grips on both the left and right side of the mouse that is concave for a sturdier grip and a place to rest your fingers.

The mouse is 11 and 1/2 centimeters, so definitely a smaller Mouse. In total, the mouse weighs 99 grams, which is just slightly on the heavier side for a mouse of this size, but great for a wireless mouse nonetheless. There’s also a compartment underneath the mouse to store the wireless receiver, this is always a nice addition.

Over the top, the mouse is a gradual and aggressive curve that comes back down at the palm rest. Overall, I think this shape is great for claw grips, especially with rubberized grips on the sides of the mouse and the palm rest is tall enough vertically to rest your palm completely when claw gripping. Palm gripping with the mouse is more of a mixed thing, it’s a shorter Mouse with an aggressive curve, so your fingers will have a sharper curve to accommodate to. Generally, this is not the type of shape you want for palm resting unless you have really small hands. Ideally, if you are palm gripping, I generally advise a larger Mouse. 

FEATURES & PERFORMANCE:

Logitech G305 Lightspeed

The buttons around the mouse feel extremely premium, especially if you factor in the price points. The left and right clicks are snappy with a tiny travel distance although I’ve never activated them by mistake and they have only rated up to 10 million clicks as opposed to the G Pro which I believe was 20 million.

The gaming performance has been absolutely mind-blowing. Simply, connect your wireless dongle and you’re good to go, I’ve had no drops structure or hitches of any kind.

Now if we take a look at the Logitech software, it’s pretty basic. You can store all of your saved settings on the mouse’s memory and the mouse can run independently without ever opening the software again. The mouse tab allows you to change all of the buttons as well as up to five different levels of DPI adjustments that can be toggled on the mouse itself with a button just behind the scroll wheel and there’s a handy LED indicator, so you know what DPI you’ve selected. There are options to change the report rate and power mode, high will give you 250 hours of battery life and low would give you 9 months, while gaming, leave it on high though because tracking is optimal with this setting

Tracking remains as good as the 3366 sensors but power efficiency has been greatly improved. Also, the light-speed technology gives you a one-millisecond report rate on par with the best-wired mice on the market.

The new hero sensor offering great performance and battery life. I wonder if Logitech has killed off their power play wireless charging system, this feels like a much more well-rounded product at a far cheaper price. So, the G305 is absolutely amazing, and I will highly recommend it to anyone that ever asked me. It is so good and you should definitely go and try it out yourself.

Corsair Harpoon RGB Wireless

It’s got a rechargeable battery, Bluetooth as well as Wireless over the 2.4 gigahertz wireless receiver, and programmable LEDs. The Harpoon Wireless also has programmable LEDs on its main logo and the DPI switch, a nice option at the expense of some extra battery cost. Left and right mouse buttons are good, no real issues here, they feel sharp and a bit on the lighter side. Now, with this mouse, the left and right buttons are not separated from the rest of the top shell-like in the case of some other mice. This generally isn’t ever an issue and doesn’t really change the usability of the mouse but keep in mind, you can achieve a click from the middle of the mouse even below the DPI switch, anywhere below that a click is not registered. Click durability is claimed to be 50 million clicks on the left and right mouse buttons, which is actually pretty great compared to some other mice. The scroll wheel is on the smoother side and very light. Also, it has a nice click, no issues there.

One of the largest complaints with this mouse is the two side buttons. Firstly, the small separation between the two buttons is actually really hard to feel during intense gaming. At times, I often wasn’t sure which button I was on and ended up pressing the wrong one. In normal circumstances, I don’t think the button separation would be a big deal, but because the buttons are already so small, I think it’s important that they have good separation and are isolated enough, so I know which one I am clicking. Another grip with this mouse is the sharp curve of the top shell that sort of hangs over the left side of the mouse literally right over the side buttons. If you’re resting your thumb right beneath the side buttons and you move it to press one of these buttons, you will probably more often than not hit the top shell which just sort of becomes obtrusive and doesn’t let you easily hit the side button you want. In short, the side buttons are just kind of not good but that might not be important to a lot of you. 

Here, the sensor is Corsair’s PMW 3325 at a maximum DPI of 10,000 and a maximum polling rate of 1,000 Hertz. Overall, I haven’t had any issues at all with the sensor, but when I first started using it, every now and then I would get a slight stutter when moving the sensor very quickly. Moving to a different port closer to the mouse removed the stuttering entirely and I didn’t notice any issues with latency. Odds are your monitor will have more latency than the mouse, so definitely don’t worry about that and try to keep the mouse as close as possible to the wireless receiver. The mouse also features an option to run it with a wire which comes included with the box, this is certainly a nice feature to have to keep on gaming while your mouse is charging.

For a lot of people, the software might not be a big deal and that’s fine. If you’re going to just have one setting that you use for every game you play and maybe just use the DPI switch every now and then for a game you might need, then this software will get the job done. The UI is just not good, the whole program seems to be designed around these tabs at the top that let you select what you want to change for the mouse. However, the tabs don’t really take you anywhere specific except the dashboard in settings but instant lighting and homepage are the exact same, except the instant lighting just pops up an extra window for lighting.

When you click on a profile on the left, you can’t actually edit it but you can only change the name and change what program that specific profile links to. So, you have to create an individual profile for every particular program you want to use, you can’t just make one profile that is then used for a set of specific programs, again this is not an issue at all if you only plan to program one specific profile for everything. However, if you have one specific setting for games and one specific setting for anything else, you have to create an individual profile for every game you play and you have to manually locate the exe for it. To actually change the profiles themselves, you got to click on the mouse. Here, you can change DPI which has their own profiles and lighting effects which also have their own profiles. Within the overall Mouse profile, you can program the buttons as well.

I have some issues with the software. It’s not clean, things don’t seem to be well thought out or coherent and it just makes an incredibly unpleasant experience making profiles, especially when you create a specific program you want to have one particular setting for. This may be an issue for some people or maybe not but it gets the work done. 

BATTERY:

Logitech G305 Lightspeed

Logitech 305 uses a non-rechargeable AA  battery that can last for longer than 250 hours. Its battery life is fantastic. The back panel can be pulled off. You don’t have to worry about the battery as it does come with an OEM Duracell battery. The battery that comes in the box is a AA cell that weighs 23 grams alone and when installed into the G305 this brings the total weight to 97 grams.

Corsair Harpoon RGB Wireless

The battery where there is no competing with the Logitech’s Hero sensor in the G305 mouse. It doesn’t mean that the battery is bad in the Harpoon wireless. For a rechargeable mouse, it’s actually pretty great. We’re looking at an average of 60 hours without the LEDs on, and with the LEDs, we’re looking at an average of about 30 hours. So, if you’re using the mouse relatively frequently throughout the day, you might need to charge it one to three times a week, which again isn’t bad at all.

WHICH TO BUY?

The price gap between Logitech G305 and Corsair Harpoon is not much, both are affordable. If you like the shape of G Pro more and you want that in a wireless version under a budget, then this G305 will be the best option. Corsair Harpoon Wireless is a pretty great performing mouse for the price with some cool features that the Logitech G305 doesn’t even have. Software is a bit messy and makes an unpleasant experience. Also, it only comes in one color. If you like claw gripping and you’re in the market for a small Mouse, definitely consider the Corsair Harpoon wireless mouse.

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