What is eDPI and how do I use it?

eDPI, short for effective DPI, is your in-game sensitivity multiplied by your mouse DPI. If a Valorant pro plays at 0.35 sens on 1600 DPI, their eDPI is 560. A teammate on 800 DPI would need sens 0.70 to match that feel. eDPI collapses two numbers that depend on hardware into one that describes your actual turning speed — inside one game.

The formula

eDPI = in-game sens × mouse DPI. That is all. It is not a new measurement you calibrate; it is a derived quantity. Sens Converter prints it next to every converted sens you get, so you can sanity-check new numbers against pros and teammates who share their eDPI rather than their raw sens.

Why players track eDPI

• Compare against pros inside the same game without worrying about which DPI they run
• Match a teammate's exact feel when you swap mice or change DPI yourself
• Track your own settings over time as a single stable number instead of two sliders

Typical eDPI ranges per game

• Valorant: ~200 (very slow) — ~320 (common pro median) — 500+ (high-sens)
• CS2 / CS:GO: ~600 — ~1000 — 2000+
• Apex Legends: ~800 — ~1600 — 3000+ (bigger range; ADS varies per gun)
• Overwatch 2: ~3000 — ~5000 — 8000+ (yaw is much smaller so eDPI numbers get large)

Where eDPI breaks down

eDPI only compares inside one game. Every FPS uses its own yaw — the degrees of rotation per mouse count — so eDPI 560 in Valorant is ~40 cm/360°, while eDPI 560 in CS2 is a very different ~130 cm/360°. If you try to carry eDPI across engines it will send you in the wrong direction. That is why Sens Converter also shows cm/360° on every result: it is the only metric that stays true across engines.

Worked example

You play CS2 at sens 1.27 on 800 DPI: eDPI = 800 × 1.27 = 1016. A teammate on 400 DPI who wants to match your feel needs sens 2.54 (400 × 2.54 = 1016). Punch any two of the three values — sens, DPI, eDPI — into Sens Converter's eDPI calculator and it fills in the third. Same feel, different hardware, one number to agree on.