What's the HZ in a monitor?

[DarkMesa]

Yes it's a Noob questions but now I'm wondering what's HZ in a monitor? Is it refresh rate? I thought of that but noticed that some screens have 120Hz, which would mean that for a proper experience the content on the screen should be running at 120 FPS, which would be useless since as far as I know we can't see more than 60 Frames per Second. If I'm right, why are there 120Hz monitors on the market?

 

Edit: In my life I've never seen an higher refresh rate monitor than 60Hz

Edited August 22, 2017 by DarkMesa

[iRileyx]

Its the refresh rate yes.

 

Eyes can see more than 60fps lol, dont think the exact number as known though as obviously people's eyesight will make it differ.

[tp95112]

These questions are easily googled. Tech Quickie has a video of this

 

 

 

[QuantumBit]

Humans aren't computers, it would be like saying the human eye can only see 4k, our vision can't be measured with computer standards.

[Mira Yurizaki]

People can perceive more than 60 FPS, but it's probably harder to determine anything "smoother" after give or take after about 100Hz.

[Lurick]

The human eye can only comprehend 3.75GB of RAM so why use more?

/s

 

 

That myth is just a bunch of crap, people can see infinite frames per second but the perceived difference is harder to see above a certain point.

[loculus]

There are limits to human visual acuity and motion perception, but a test of X FPS with evenly spaced frames (noninteractive) is measuring something very different from having a X Hz vs. Y Hz monitor particularly if the display is sample-and-hold (i.e. more or less staticly holding the image between refreshes, which is how all the common 60 Hz LCD screens work; having some strobing is a relatively rare feature and usually only available on the high-refresh-rate displays). It also depends on the nature of the motion, speed, etc.

 

If you're looking at running games, which is an interactive experience (so responsiveness makes a difference) that furthermore potentially can have a wide range of potential motion, all delivered at inconsistent intervals, you end up with different amounts of screen tearing and delay depending on where rendered frames fall relative to monitor refreshes. Or ideally no tearing and less delay for complete frames with a variable refresh setup (G-Sync, FreeSync). More frequent monitor refreshes would change how things look even if the average FPS is not much different from 60 Hz (or even below). Then when it comes to higher refresh rates being displayed, on a sample-and-hold display you get higher visual clarity—less perceptual blurring of things in motion as your eye tracks them, given that your eyes will move with the trajectory in a continuous fashion and not teleport in discrete chunks every 1/60th of a second to the new position.

 

So clearly there are benefits. They just may not be big enough to matter to you, depending on your expectations and the content. It really depends.

[xsimplyjosh]

12 hours ago, DarkMesa said:

Yes it's a Noob questions but now I'm wondering what's HZ in a monitor? Is it refresh rate? I thought of that but noticed that some screens have 120Hz, which would mean that for a proper experience the content on the screen should be running at 120 FPS, which would be useless since as far as I know we can't see more than 60 Frames per Second. If I'm right, why are there 120Hz monitors on the market?

 

Edit: In my life I've never seen an higher refresh rate monitor than 60Hz

Frame rates a sec. u can find higher frame rate monitors but they cost more due to harder to implement that tech into a monitor of that calibre

[xsimplyjosh]

Technically first player shooter games will benefit from high frames/sec monitors due to the constant twitching and switching of positions the faster refresh/frame rate aids in a smoother gameplay

 

while as moba or rts games dont necessarily need that kind of performance calibre so 60hz shud suffice in those usually.

[DarkMesa]

9 hours ago, xsimplyjosh said:

Technically first player shooter games will benefit from high frames/sec monitors due to the constant twitching and switching of positions the faster refresh/frame rate aids in a smoother gameplay

 

while as moba or rts games dont necessarily need that kind of performance calibre so 60hz shud suffice in those usually.

"Firs player shooter games"?

[xsimplyjosh]

22 hours ago, DarkMesa said:

"Firs player shooter games"?

person, player... very identical imo not sure why you want to point that out.

[DarkMesa]

17 hours ago, xsimplyjosh said:

person, player... very identical imo not sure why you want to point that out.

I was wondering if it was a Joke replacing "Person" with "Player"

[Brett_Bst]

just saying but linus did a test to see if you can tell between 60hz and 120hz and he could tell, suppose it depends on the person, the vid is 4 years old though

 

Linus 60hz vs 120hz