This sensor is great, not because of the high max DPI though. Before this mouse, every sensor with above 3,000 DPI had significant sensor lag, aka smoothing. The g502 does not. Also, even mice with the gold standard 3090 sensor still had some acceleration and pixel loss at high speeds, the sensor the g502 has does not. The g502 also has unprecedented max perfect control speed and a very low lod when you tune it for your mouspad. Finally it has native dpi steps every 50 dpi step from 200dpi to 12,000 so it will perform brilliantly at any dpi you want to play at. Basically mouse manufactures over the years have sacrificed performance to better marketable stats for the masses, like working hard on obtaining insane DPIs and this is the first sensor that has good marketable stats without sacrificing the performance enthusiasts desire.