Overview
The Logitech G435 LIGHTSPEED Gaming Headset – Black — 40mm drivers, LIGHTSPEED 2.4GHz and Bluetooth in one headset, dual beamforming microphones with no boom arm, 18-hour battery, USB-C charging, and 165g with memory foam earcups. Works on PC, Mac, PS4, PS5, Switch and mobile. Certified Carbon Neutral.
✓ LIGHTSPEED 2.4GHz and Bluetooth — gaming and phone on one headset
✓ Only 165g — one of the lightest wireless gaming headsets Logitech makes
✓ Dual beamforming mics built into the earcup — no boom arm to catch or store
✓ 18hr battery · USB-C · works on PC without G HUB · Carbon Neutral certified
The Logitech G435 is the entry point to Logitech G's wireless range and it makes a specific set of choices rather than simply being a cheaper G733. It is the only headset in the range that carries both LIGHTSPEED 2.4GHz and Bluetooth, so the same headset handles a PC game through the USB dongle and a phone call over Bluetooth without unpairing anything. It weighs 165g, which is light enough that it stops registering after a few minutes. It has no boom microphone — two beamforming mics sit inside the left earcup instead, which removes the most fragile part of a gaming headset and the part that is always in the way when the headset is around your neck. And it needs no software: on PC the G435 has full functionality straight out of the box with no G HUB installation. Logitech built it with a minimum of 22% post-consumer recycled plastic, FSC-certified paper packaging, and Certified Carbon Neutral status. The trade for all of this is that there is no RGB, no boom mic and no surround processing — the G435 is deliberately a headset that does the fundamentals well and leaves the rest out.
LIGHTSPEED + Bluetooth
Two Wireless Systems, One Headset
Most gaming headsets pick one wireless technology. LIGHTSPEED is Logitech G's proprietary 2.4GHz protocol, built for gaming: it sends uncompressed audio over a dedicated USB dongle at latency low enough that footsteps and gunshots stay locked to what is on screen. Bluetooth is the universal standard — it pairs with anything, but the audio compression and packetisation add tens of milliseconds of delay, which is fine for music and calls and noticeable in competitive play. The G435 carries both. Plug the LIGHTSPEED dongle into a PC, Mac, PS4 or PS5 for gaming audio with no perceptible lag, and use Bluetooth for a phone, tablet or Nintendo Switch. Switching between the two is a button press on the earcup rather than a re-pairing procedure. In practice this is the feature that makes the G435 a genuinely single-headset solution — you are not taking one pair off to answer a call on another. Range is up to 10 metres on either connection. One detail worth checking before ordering: the LIGHTSPEED dongle is USB-A, so a laptop with only USB-C ports will need an adapter or hub.
165g · Beamforming Mics · No Boom
What Removing the Boom Arm Achieves
At 165g the G435 is roughly 110g lighter than the G733 and around half the weight of many full-size wireless gaming headsets. A large part of that saving comes from removing the boom microphone assembly and the plastic housing, hinge and cabling that go with it. In its place, two microphones sit inside the left earcup and work as a beamforming array — the two capsules receive the same sounds at fractionally different times depending on direction, and the processing uses that timing difference to favour audio arriving from the direction of the wearer's mouth while suppressing sound arriving from elsewhere. Voice comes through cleanly for Discord, party chat and calls; a boom mic positioned directly in front of the mouth still captures more low-end body in the voice, so a streamer recording content will want a dedicated microphone. For everyday team communication the beamforming array is entirely sufficient, and it removes the part of a headset most likely to break and the part that digs into your collarbone when the headset hangs around your neck. The earcups use soft memory foam and the headband is fabric-suspended, which combined with the low weight is what makes the G435 comfortable across a long session.
18hr · No Software · Sustainable
Battery, Setup and Build
Eighteen hours of playback covers a week of evening sessions before the headset needs the USB-C cable, and USB-C means the same lead as a phone or laptop rather than a proprietary connector. Where the G435 differs sharply from the rest of the Logitech G range is software: it requires none. On PC the headset has full functionality with no G HUB installation — plug in the dongle and it works, including volume and mute from the earcup buttons. There is no EQ, no Blue VO!CE processing and no RGB to configure, which is precisely why nothing needs installing. The G435 is Logitech G's sustainability flagship: minimum 22% post-consumer recycled plastic in the construction, paper packaging from FSC-certified forests, and Certified Carbon Neutral status covering design through delivery. One
✓ LIGHTSPEED 2.4GHz and Bluetooth — gaming and phone on one headset
✓ Only 165g — one of the lightest wireless gaming headsets Logitech makes
✓ Dual beamforming mics built into the earcup — no boom arm to catch or store
✓ 18hr battery · USB-C · works on PC without G HUB · Carbon Neutral certified
The Logitech G435 is the entry point to Logitech G's wireless range and it makes a specific set of choices rather than simply being a cheaper G733. It is the only headset in the range that carries both LIGHTSPEED 2.4GHz and Bluetooth, so the same headset handles a PC game through the USB dongle and a phone call over Bluetooth without unpairing anything. It weighs 165g, which is light enough that it stops registering after a few minutes. It has no boom microphone — two beamforming mics sit inside the left earcup instead, which removes the most fragile part of a gaming headset and the part that is always in the way when the headset is around your neck. And it needs no software: on PC the G435 has full functionality straight out of the box with no G HUB installation. Logitech built it with a minimum of 22% post-consumer recycled plastic, FSC-certified paper packaging, and Certified Carbon Neutral status. The trade for all of this is that there is no RGB, no boom mic and no surround processing — the G435 is deliberately a headset that does the fundamentals well and leaves the rest out.
LIGHTSPEED + Bluetooth
Two Wireless Systems, One Headset
Most gaming headsets pick one wireless technology. LIGHTSPEED is Logitech G's proprietary 2.4GHz protocol, built for gaming: it sends uncompressed audio over a dedicated USB dongle at latency low enough that footsteps and gunshots stay locked to what is on screen. Bluetooth is the universal standard — it pairs with anything, but the audio compression and packetisation add tens of milliseconds of delay, which is fine for music and calls and noticeable in competitive play. The G435 carries both. Plug the LIGHTSPEED dongle into a PC, Mac, PS4 or PS5 for gaming audio with no perceptible lag, and use Bluetooth for a phone, tablet or Nintendo Switch. Switching between the two is a button press on the earcup rather than a re-pairing procedure. In practice this is the feature that makes the G435 a genuinely single-headset solution — you are not taking one pair off to answer a call on another. Range is up to 10 metres on either connection. One detail worth checking before ordering: the LIGHTSPEED dongle is USB-A, so a laptop with only USB-C ports will need an adapter or hub.
165g · Beamforming Mics · No Boom
What Removing the Boom Arm Achieves
At 165g the G435 is roughly 110g lighter than the G733 and around half the weight of many full-size wireless gaming headsets. A large part of that saving comes from removing the boom microphone assembly and the plastic housing, hinge and cabling that go with it. In its place, two microphones sit inside the left earcup and work as a beamforming array — the two capsules receive the same sounds at fractionally different times depending on direction, and the processing uses that timing difference to favour audio arriving from the direction of the wearer's mouth while suppressing sound arriving from elsewhere. Voice comes through cleanly for Discord, party chat and calls; a boom mic positioned directly in front of the mouth still captures more low-end body in the voice, so a streamer recording content will want a dedicated microphone. For everyday team communication the beamforming array is entirely sufficient, and it removes the part of a headset most likely to break and the part that digs into your collarbone when the headset hangs around your neck. The earcups use soft memory foam and the headband is fabric-suspended, which combined with the low weight is what makes the G435 comfortable across a long session.
18hr · No Software · Sustainable
Battery, Setup and Build
Eighteen hours of playback covers a week of evening sessions before the headset needs the USB-C cable, and USB-C means the same lead as a phone or laptop rather than a proprietary connector. Where the G435 differs sharply from the rest of the Logitech G range is software: it requires none. On PC the headset has full functionality with no G HUB installation — plug in the dongle and it works, including volume and mute from the earcup buttons. There is no EQ, no Blue VO!CE processing and no RGB to configure, which is precisely why nothing needs installing. The G435 is Logitech G's sustainability flagship: minimum 22% post-consumer recycled plastic in the construction, paper packaging from FSC-certified forests, and Certified Carbon Neutral status covering design through delivery. One
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