Logitech G502 Lightspeed Mouse Review – Top Tier Performance and Quality

What is the Logitech G502 Lightspeed?

The Logitech G502 is a mouse many swear by, from professional gamers to home-office users. Since the time it was launched, it has gone through many changes and the Logitech G502 “Lightspeed” is the most profound of them all. Not only has the cable been ditched by the “Lightspeed” wireless system that offers latency-free gaming, Logitech has reworked the internal chassis construction entirely to radically change the weight of the mouse. Read on to find out more about the Logitech G502 Lightspeed Mouse.

Logitech G502 Lightspeed – Design, Build & Ergonomics

The Logitech G502 Lightspeed on the outset feels like an extra-terrestrial gadget with a premium touch to it. It’s size is very approachable, and by no means this is a large mouse. It is actually pretty sleek and can fit most palm sizes comfortably. The borders are aggressive with a lot of solid angles, and each of the 11 buttons present are clearly identifiable and distinguishable. The 11 buttons together provide a handful variety of tactile feedback variations, based on their utility.

RGB lighting is pretty much a standard on computer peripherals in the 2020s, and the Logitech G502 Lightspeed follows the trend. You get the “G” logo on the body of the mouse that is RGB-lit. Through the Logitech G-Hub software, you can change the colour and pattern of light. The available patterns are Fixed, Cycle, Breathing, Screen Sampler and Audio Visualizer. The lighting looks pretty elegant, and is not intrusive to the eyes when in dark surroundings.

The Logitech G502 Lightspeed comes with 6 adjustable weights (2 x 4 grams and 4 x 2 grams) that can be easily installed and removed.

Wireless mice have been bugged by the issue of being heavy, and that is mainly due to the presence of batteries, and batteries are heavy. The Logitech G502 Lightspeed weighs a whoppingly light 114 grams, one of the lightest wireless mouse we’ve seen. How did Logitech achieve this? That’s where it gets interesting. They’ve redesigned the entire internal chassis on which the mouse’s internal electronics and mechanical workings are built upon, to significantly reduce the weight of the mouse.

And they have succeeded, really. More so, if you find the mouse a tab too light for your liking, Logitech has provided adjustable weights (2 x 4 grams, 4 x 2 grams) with a nifty little case. When the mouse is fully loaded with all the weights, it does feel heavy. We used the heavy configuration for browsing and the light configuration for gaming. It is worthy to mention that regardless of being one the lightest wireless mice, the Logitech G502 Lightspeed also provides absolutely remarkable battery life. So it is a commendable feat how Logitech managed all these features without being too heavy.

The ergonomics of the Logitech G502 Lightspeed are great. This mouse bleeds ergonomics from all four directions, so much for its intense implementation of aggressive turns and crevices.. It can be used in both “palm-grip” and “claw-grip” configurations. This by no means is an ambidextrous mouse though, it is more suited toward right-handed house. Below the left side buttons, the body extends towards the bottom left, out of the mouse, to provide support for your thumb. This makes the mouse feel very “grippy” and precise. Getting used to not accidently pushing the left buttons will take some time though, since that area is pretty populated.

Logitech G502 Lightspeed – 11 Programmable Buttons

11 programmable buttons! Well, what use might they be to me, one may wonder? Well, we think they can be pretty darn useful, provided you consciously make an effort to use them. Two buttons on the top-left are used to increase and decrease DPI. There’s a button reachable by your thumb that is meant to lower the DPI to 400 while being pressed. This is a feature we have seen for the first time in a mouse, and it is very useful especially when playing shooters.

The buttons on the Logitech G502 Lightspeed are high-quality, providing precise clicks and tactile feedback.

Then there are the forward and back buttons, a battery indicator button, and an “Infinity Scroll” button. The Infinity Scroll button changes the way the scroll wheel operates: from receiving tactile “click” feedback to no feedback, allowing for easy scrolling through endless spreadsheets and PDF documents. You can literally spin the scroll-wheel like one of those fidget spinners.

All the buttons provide good tactile feedback and aren’t clunky, they’re precise. We did mis-click often when we started using the mouse due to the heavily button-populated left side of the mouse. One can get used to this with time though.

We’ve used this mouse for a period of one month before posting this review. Through the course of the month, the mouse saw intense usage and greasy fingers. The buttons are intact and their mechanism is intact.

Logitech G502 Lightspeed – 16,000 DPI HERO Sensor Performance

Logitech uses the much-touted “HERO” sensor on the Lightspeed model, the same sensor has been used in previous G502 models. This sensor is known to be precise and that brings it a fair share of worshippers from the gaming community. We found the Logitech G502 Lightspeed to be suitable for all kinds of usage, from home to productivity to gaming. Using the mouse at 16,000 DPI can be a little erratic, but for someone who knows how to make use of that level of sensitivity, it can be the deciding factor in performance.

The “HERO” sensor on the Logitech G502 Lightspeed provides accurate tracking even at insanely high DPIs.

For productivity we found the sweet spot sensitivity to be between 1200 and 1600 DPI, . For gaming, we would switch between 2000 – 6000 DPI, depending on what kind of game we’re playing. The Logitech G502 Lightspeed went very well with all kinds of games, from Dota 2 to Call of Duty: Warzone. This is indeed a very versatile mouse. We even tried a few sessions with 16,000 DPI, and boy, while it is pretty wild, we found the tracking to be very precise.

Logitech G502 Lightspeed – Wireless & Battery Performance

We have always swayed away from wireless gaming mice due to the latency between the movement of your palm to the response on your screen. Wireless mice have been technologically bound by this, making it mostly unusable for serious gaming usage. The wireless transmitters just weren’t fast enough to be of use for gaming.

Class leading battery life of 45 – 50 hours on the Logitech G502 Lightspeed makes it last easily for around 3 weeks without a charge.

To be really honest, we expected a generic Wi-Fi transmitter on the Logitech G502 Lightspeed. To our surprise, when we used it in-house and we swore that we saw no latency difference between a wired mouse and the Logitech G502 Lightspeed. There is no practical way to measure this, so we called in a pro-gamer and put him through a blind test and asked him which mouse seemed faster, the wired of the wireless Logitech G502. He pointed at the wireless. That says a lot about the LIGHTSPEED transmitter. Logitech has seemingly finally solved the age-old “wireless mice are slow” issue.

Adding cherry to the cake is the simply outstanding battery life of the Logitech G502 Lightspeed. A single full change would make the mouse last for a good 45 – 50 hours. That’s almost 3 weeks of usage. Once again, it is a commendable feat how Logitech managed to provide astonishing battery life while keeping the mouse insanely light in weight.

Conclusion

Now we’re pretty sure Logitech G502 Lightspeed has left you impressed. Why would it not? It checks all the right boxes. It is well designed, has great ergonomics, top-of-the-line specifications and a feature set meant to make you drool (fully programmable 11 buttons, RGB light, Infinite Scroll, Adjustable weights). Price at around Rs. 13,995, this is no cheap piece of hardware. It is priced as a premium product, in line with other products from Logitech’s G range, like the Logitech G Pro and G Pro X headset we reviewed a while back. The million dollar question is, is the Logitech G502 Lightspeed worth your money? We would say, if you can afford is, this is as good as it get.

(The review unit was provided to us the local-PR arm of Logitech free-of-cost. This is not a sponsored review, just like all reviews on iLLGaming.