Gateron’s Magnetic Jade Silent switch brings quiet Hall effect typing
Gateron’s Magnetic Jade Silent tries to solve the loudest Hall effect flaw with dual-ring damping, 33 gf activation and a $56 entry price.
Gateron’s new Magnetic Jade Silent switch goes after one of the few complaints magnetic keyboard fans still hear: noise. Hall effect and TMR boards have won people over with adjustable actuation and sharp responsiveness, but they have also tended to sound like a gaming peripheral first and a daily typing tool second. The Magnetic Jade Silent is Gateron’s answer to that problem, and it is aimed squarely at the office desk, the shared apartment, and the late-night session where a loud bottom-out is the last thing anyone wants.
The switch uses a dual-ring sound-dampening structure that wraps both sides of the stem, with the goal of cutting impact noise from bottom-out and rebound. Gateron pairs that with a closed-bottom design, a POM stem and top housing, a detachable light guide diffuser, and factory pre-lube. The result is still a linear magnetic switch on paper, with 33±5 gf initial force, 45±10 gf bottom-out force, 3.2±0.2 mm total travel, 125±8 GS initial magnetic flux, and 700±30 GS bottom-out magnetic flux on a 1.2 mm PCB, but it is built to mute the sharp acoustic signature that usually comes with this category.
Compatibility matters here as much as sound. TechPowerUp identified the Magnetic Jade Silent as an n-pole magnetic design that should work with boards already built for Gateron Magnetic Jade Gaming switches, plus ecosystems such as Gravastar UFO and TTC KOM. That widens the appeal beyond a single branded board and makes the switch easier to imagine in more than one build path, especially for users who already treat magnetic sensing as a platform rather than a one-off spec.
The pricing keeps the switch in premium territory without drifting into novelty pricing. Gateron lists the Magnetic Jade Silent at $56 for 70 switches and $72 for 90. That puts it in the same conversation as other enthusiast magnetic options, not as a cheap experiment. It also arrives while Gateron’s own magnetic lineup keeps expanding, with Magnetic Jade Gaming, Attraction HE, Delta HE, Emerald Heavy Tactile, Genty Silent HE, and low-profile magnetic Jade variants all sitting alongside it.
That broader lineup is the real story. Gateron has been marketing its magnetic switches around Hall-effect sensing for adjustable actuation and stability since the Magnetic Jade Gaming switch debuted at Shenzhen’s ZFX exhibition on October 8, 2024. Keychron’s K2 HE uses pre-lubed Gateron double-rail magnetic switches with advanced TMR sensors, and MonsGeek pitches TMR as a step up in precision, durability and power efficiency. Put together, the Magnetic Jade Silent makes the category feel less like a fast-correcting gaming niche and more like a full typing ecosystem, with silence now joining speed as a reason to buy in.
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