Thrustmaster T300 RS GT vs Logitech G923

Walk into any conversation about a first serious racing wheel in the UAE and it collapses to these two names. Both are officially licensed console wheels, both come with pedals in the box, both live permanently in stock on Amazon.ae and Noon, and both sit in the AED 1,000–1,500 window where most buyers land. From there, they take completely different bets: Logitech bet on toughness and reach — one gear-driven wheel that works on everything and survives anything. Thrustmaster bet on the driving itself — a belt-driven system tuned for smoothness, wearing a rim you can swap as your racing tastes change.

We ran both for 40+ hours each on the same rig, through the same three titles — Gran Turismo 7, F1 25, Assetto Corsa. Below is every round, with the winner named plainly. Neither wheel sweeps; that's what makes the choice interesting.

This is the round that matters most, because force feedback is the product — it's the difference between steering a car and steering a video game. The two wheels build it in fundamentally different ways. The G923 drives its rim through gears: strong, direct, and inescapably grainy, because every tooth engagement travels up the column into your hands. The T300 drives through two belts off a brushless servomotor: the belts filter the granularity out, so forces arrive as continuous, elastic torque.

In practice the difference is not subtle. Self-centering on the G923 has a faint ratchet to it — micro-steps you learn to steer around. On the T300, the wheel loads and unloads like something mechanical is actually resisting you. Kerb strikes on the T300 are individual, located events; on the G923 they blur toward a general buzz. And in the moments that decide lap times — the half-second where the rear starts to rotate — the T300 telegraphs the slide earlier and more legibly.

Logitech's counterpunch is TrueForce, which taps game audio and physics to add high-frequency vibration detail in supported titles (GT7 among them). It's genuinely clever and it narrows the gap — engine rumble and surface texture come alive. But it's a layer painted on top of gear-drive hardware; it can't remove the notchiness underneath. Feel is why you're buying either of these wheels, and the T300 simply has more of it.

Flip the scoreboard. The G923 is a dense, compact brick of a wheel — the highest build score in our field at 8.8/10 — and its track record is the stuff of sim-racing folklore: G-series wheels survive a decade of clamping, unclamping, hot cars, cold garages and teenage rage-quits. If the wheel is going to live in a majlis and be shared by everyone in the house, that resilience is worth real money.

The T300 is well-built — leather-touched rim, metal paddle shifters, solid clamp — but it's a more mechanically complex machine. Belts want gentler handling than gears, and the cooling fan (audible in warm rooms under long load) is a moving part the G923 simply doesn't have. Working in the T300's favour long-term: its H.E.A.R.T magnetic sensors are contactless, so the classic ageing failure of potentiometer wheels — scratchy, drifting inputs — can't happen. Our honest summary: the G923 shrugs off abuse better; the T300 rewards an owner who treats it like the instrument it is.

Both ship with three pedals, which is more than this price bracket used to guarantee. The G923's set is the better sorted out of the box: a stiffer, progressive brake that's easier to modulate from day one, in a heavy base that stays put on carpet. The T300's T3PA-GT set counters with full metal faces and an included conical brake mod that stiffens the last third of travel — but its brake still measures distance rather than pressure, and the unit is lighter underfoot.

The asterisk that matters: the T300's base accepts Thrustmaster's T-LCM load-cell pedals later — a genuine pro-grade upgrade that transforms braking consistency. The G923 has no equivalent in-family path. So: G923 wins the pedals you get on day one; the T300 wins the pedals you could have in year two.

Two different kinds of breadth. The G923 covers more consoles: buy the right SKU and one wheel serves PS5, Xbox and PC — decisive for mixed-console households, and the reason it's the safe gift. The T300 covers more racing: its quick-release collar accepts Thrustmaster's whole add-on rim catalogue — Ferrari F1 rims for open-wheel, Sparco rally rims, leather GT rims — plus the TH8A H-pattern shifter and TSS handbrake off the same base.

Frame it as a question: do you need one wheel for many platforms, or one base for many kinds of racing? Households pick the G923. Racers pick the T300 — because outgrowing a G923 means replacing it, while outgrowing a T300 rim means unscrewing it.

Indicatively, the G923 runs AED 999–1,199 and the T300 RS GT AED 1,299–1,499 — a gap of roughly AED 300 that sale seasons regularly compress. During White Friday and Ramadan promotions the G923 has dipped near AED 899, at which point its value case gets loud; the T300 discounts less often but holds resale value better, partly because the base stays useful across rim upgrades.

Per dirham, they're honestly level — they're just buying different things. The G923's AED 1,100 buys durability and platform insurance. The T300's AED 1,400 buys the better drive and a base you'll still be building on in five years. Decide which of those sentences describes you, and the value verdict writes itself.