What Does 144Hz Mean?
Are there any differences between a 60Hz and 144Hz monitor? What exactly does 144Hz mean? I'll tell you what I found out.
What is this, you may ask?
The term is not that complicated, so let's begin at the beginning. Refresh rate is simply the number of times an image is refreshed per second on a display.
If you compare it to the frame rate in films or games, you can get an idea of what I mean. Source content shows only 24 different images per second if a movie is shot at 24 frames per second. Displays with a display rate of 60Hz display 60 frames per second.
It's not really framed because the display will refresh 60 times every second even if not a single pixel changes. This analogy gives a good understanding of the refresh rate's core concept.
Thus, higher refresh rates translate into higher frame rates.
If your refresh rate is already higher than your source's frame rate, a higher refresh rate may not improve your experience.
Gaming and refresh rate
Regardless of platform or graphics, all video games are rendered by computer hardware.
Most of the time (particularly on PC), the frames are generated as quickly as they can, since this usually results in smoother and nicer gameplay. As a result, input lag will be reduced between each individual frame.
There can sometimes be a problem when the frames are rendered faster than the display refreshes.
It is possible to experience "screen tearing" when playing a game that renders 75 frames per second on a 60Hz display.
In this case, the GPU is likely to be caught by the display, since the display accepts GPU input at somewhat regular intervals.
As a result, the screen tears and the motion is jerky and uneven. The frame rate in many games can be capped, but this limits the performance of your PC.
