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Isaiah is right, but I'll try to clear it up a little more for you.

 

Refresh rate is the same thing as frames per second. A monitor's refresh rate is the LIMIT of frames it can display each second. A frame is a single image your computer outputs. So, if you have a 60 Hz monitor, it can display up to 60 frames per second.

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The fps, or frames per second is the amount of times the image on the monitor is updated every second. Higher is smoother. Lower is choppy.

Linus breaks it down in this video.

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Isaiah is right, but I'll try to clear it up a little more for you.

 

Refresh rate is the same thing as frames per second. A monitor's refresh rate is the LIMIT of frames it can display each second. A frame is a single image your computer outputs. So, if you have a 60 Hz monitor, it can display up to 60 frames per second.

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The fps, or frames per second is the amount of times the image on the monitor is updated every second. Higher is smoother. Lower is choppy.

Linus breaks it down in this video.

So if a monitor is 60hz then the maximum fps that it can display is 60 right???
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Isaiah is right, but I'll try to clear it up a little more for you.

 

Refresh rate is the same thing as frames per second. A monitor's refresh rate is the LIMIT of frames it can display each second. A frame is a single image your computer outputs. So, if you have a 60 Hz monitor, it can display up to 60 frames per second.

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