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Captain_Yuri said:

Ultimate Controller Comparison | Input lag + more (PS5, PS4, Xbox SX/Elite 2/One, eSwap Pro)

Idk what magical sauce Sony has with their wireless controllers but those are crazy numbers in comparison to wired controllers!

Of course, you can overclock the wired input polling rate but even then, the DS is nuts! Overclocked:

How in the world can those controllers be fast when used wireless than when wired? Is it because the USB add some latency or what?

That looks much, much better.

The video has a really good explanation of it. I'd recommend watching it.

But as a TLDW. There's two things that come into play.

Polling Rate which is how many times the computer asks for information. And Update Rate which is how many times the controller sends the information.

The Default Polling Rate for wired is 250 hz.
The Default Update Rate for PS controllers is 250 hz.
The Default Update Rate for Xbox controllers is 124 hz which causes an input issue every 65th button press by 4ms.

You can increase the Polling Rate of the Xbox controller to 1000hz but can't increase the Update rate of the Xbox Controller but you can make it so that the 4ms issue goes down to 1ms.
You can increase the Polling and Update rate of the Dual Shock 4 controller to 1000hz.
You can increase the Polling Rate of the DualSense to 8000hz but the Update Rate will stick to 1000hz.

Bluetooth however has a Default Polling rate of 1000hz. But with Xbox controllers, for some reason, it makes the games have a frame-rate spike unless you use their wireless adapter or play at 60fps or below.

The caveat with wireless is that it's not universal. While in testing, wireless looks crazy, a number of things can affect it that people may not have any control over where as with wired, you will have that consistent experience no matter. And it's very simple to adjust the Polling Rate.