News Can your eyes keep up with a 500Hz gaming monitor? The answer may surprise you

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To see if these new 500Hz monitors are worth it or not, I spoke to a display expert and the answer is more complicated than you might think.

Can your eyes keep up with a 500Hz gaming monitor? The answer may surprise you : Read more

 

[Ryan F Mercer]

It's not about reaction time. We're talking about thousandths of a second. A faster refresh rate isn't going to increase human reaction time. The benefits are less motion blur. There are a ton of extremely in depth articles written about this and it gets very very technical. But basically, as resolution increases, so does motion blur. Higher refresh rates reduces the motion blur. So what's the highest refresh we might see benefit from? Again, depends on the resolution, but basically, if we wanted human vision level resolution with no noticeable motion blur, we would need a truly ridiculous refresh rate of something like one million frames per second. Again, reaction time has nothing to do with it. Human reaction isn't that fast.