Will 60fps on a 75/120/144Hz look as smooth as 60fps on a 60Hz monitor?

[Nephu]

Hi guys.

 

I'm planning to get a new 1080p monitor for my build, and the cheapest one I've found has a refresh rate of 75Hz. A few games that I own are capped at 60fps, so I want to know: will 60fps on the 75Hz monitor look as smooth as on a 60Hz monitor?

 

I've also heard that if you have a 120Hz monitor, 60fps will be smooth since 60 is a factor of 120. Is this true?

[EPPHO]

60 fps on 60,75,120,144...Hertz should look the same unless the monitor has some other features which may make the display smoother 

[Glenwing]

6 minutes ago, Nephu said:

Hi guys.

 

I'm planning to get a new 1080p monitor for my build, and the cheapest one I've found has a refresh rate of 75Hz. A few games that I own are capped at 60fps, so I want to know: will 60fps on the 75Hz monitor look as smooth as on a 60Hz monitor?

 

I've also heard that if you have a 120Hz monitor, 60fps will be smooth since 60 is a factor of 120. Is this true?

No, 60 fps does not look as smooth if you are not on a 60 Hz monitor. Even on a 120 Hz monitor, in my experience. However keep in mind even if you have a 120 Hz or 144 Hz monitor, you don't have to run it at 120 Hz all the time, you can set it to operate at 60 Hz whenever you want.

[Praesi]

5 minutes ago, Glenwing said:

No, 60 fps does not look as smooth if you are not on a 60 Hz monitor. Even on a 120 Hz monitor, in my experience. 

Unless it has Gsync or FreeSync.

[WereCat]

It won't unless you have G-Sync or Free-Sync.

120Hz should.

 

[Ya_Mi]

High refresh rate monitor can help with tearing without using any v-sync or adaptive sync however it require in game fps limiter if u use 3rd party fps limiter like RTSS there will still be a tearing and the game must not capped at 60fps by default (ported)

If your system capable outputting more than 60hz while u use 144hz or 120hz u'ill notice that the movement will be smooth and tearing free but mind this u must limit the game fps to the max refresh rate of your monitor if its exceeded it then there will be a tearing.

 

[stealth80]

29 minutes ago, Glenwing said:

No, 60 fps does not look as smooth if you are not on a 60 Hz monitor. Even on a 120 Hz monitor, in my experience. However keep in mind even if you have a 120 Hz or 144 Hz monitor, you don't have to run it at 120 Hz all the time, you can set it to operate at 60 Hz whenever you want.

Ok, I don't understand why - this isn't me questioning your knowledge, its me not knowing lol. I thought 60hz was 60hz or is this like how 1080P on 1440P for example doesn't look as good as a 1080P on a native 1080P screen?