Steelseries Rival 710 (2018) vs Steelseries Rival 700 (2016)

The Steelseries Rival 710 (2018) makes for a good, if unremarkable, Wired Mouse for people with a $60 budget.

The Steelseries Rival 700 (2016), however, is merely mediocre at its $144 asking price, when compared to similarly priced products, and won't satisfy the needs of most people.

In either case, we suggest that you first take a look at some other options at the $60 and $150 price points before committing to one of these - it's likely that you'll be able to find some better alternatives.

If you're still interested in learning more about the Steelseries Rival 710 (2018) and Steelseries Rival 700 (2016), however, we wrote a summary of what we could find about them:

The Steelseries Rival 710 (2018) has managed to impress reviewers from two reliable and objective sources that conduct their own testing, namely Expert Reviews and Techradar. It did great in their roundups - it earned the "Best gaming mouse" title from Expert Reviews, and "The best gaming mouse we’ve reviewed" from Techradar, which marks it as a product that's worth considering.

As for the Steelseries Rival 700 (2016), it wasn't able to earn a top spot in any roundups from trusted sources that conduct their own hands-on testing. Nevertheless, it managed to impress reviewers at Windows Central, kitguru.net, PCmag, and TrustedReviews enough to make it onto their respective shortlists.

We examined all of the review data that we could find and first took a look at sources that reviewed both of them, like PCmag, and found that they haven't shown a preference for either product.

Then we checked which sources liked these two Wired Mice best and found that the Steelseries Rival 710 (2018) got its highest, 10, review score from reviewers at Techradar, whereas the Steelseries Rival 700 (2016) earned its best score of 9 from Windows Central.