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What is eDPI?

Q: What is eDPI and how does it work?

eDPI stands for “Effective Dots Per-inch”. DPI governs how far the on-screen cursor moves on any given physical mouse movement. Check out our page about DPI and how it affects gaming if you want a more in-depth explanation.eDPI, by comparison, indicates both the DPI of your mouse, and the in-game sensitivity of the game in question. This allows you to replicate the aiming experience of anyone, irrespective of hardware or peripherals. Additionally, it’s super easy to calculate, so let’s do that.

Regardless of the game you play, it’s constantly tempting to try to emulate what the pros do isn’t it? Using the same peripherals, same monitor, same settings etc. Unfortunately, buying additional equipment on the off chance that it will improve your performance is an expensive experiment.

However, if you’re mostly concerned with how well your in-game idol aims, you can actually replicate their exact sensitivity at home, without buying anything. Luckily, there is a way to do this and it’s called eDPI.

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You can set your DPI to up to 26,000 with the Corsair M65 Ultra

What is eDPI and how does it work?

eDPI stands for “Effective Dots Per-inch”. DPI governs how far the on-screen cursor moves on any given physical mouse movement. Check out our page about DPI and how it affects gaming if you want a more in-depth explanation.

eDPI, by comparison, indicates both the DPI of your mouse, and the in-game sensitivity of the game in question. This allows you to replicate the aiming experience of anyone, irrespective of hardware or peripherals. Additionally, it’s super easy to calculate, so let’s do that.

How to calculate eDPI?

Mathphobes can rest easy. We said “Calculate”, but it’s literally one multiplication, so it’s super quick to do. The formula for calculating eDPI is:

DPI x In-game Sensitivity

So, if you play with your mouse on 800 DPI and your in-game sensitivity is 0.27, your eDPI is 216. You would also happen to have the same eDPI as yay of Valorant fame, because that’s the example we chose to use. How about that?

We have also set up a handy eDPI calculator to you can easily figure out your eDPI for any game.

So, that’s how you can emulate anyone’s experience. Aside from that, it also allows you to troubleshoot poor performance or other in-game issues. You can also use it to have more effective comparative conversations with other players, as knowing each other’s eDPI helps a lot. This is why you constantly see it thrown around on competitive gaming subreddits.