Razer Viper 8KHz promises eight times faster polling rate
JC Torres - Jan 29, 2021, 12:46am CST
There has been a lot of focus on fast rates in the tech industry of late, from the usual clock speeds of CPUs and GPUs to a seeming obsession over screen refresh rates. In contrast, Razer says that gaming mice makers are still stuck at improving accuracy and responsiveness, particularly with DPI numbers. That isn’t the only important figure, though, the gaming company says, and it is trying to prove its point with the new Razer Viper 8KHz with HyperPolling technology.
In addition to mouse sensitivity measure in dots per inch or DPI, there is also such a thing as polling rate or how many times a device, such as a mouse, reports its data to the computer’s OS. Even for gaming mice, the standard has been 1000 Hz (1KHz) or polling 1,000 times per second. Razer’s new HyperPolling, however, multiplies that by eight.