Comprehensive list of all notebooks featuring displays with high refresh rates

In recent years, displays with refresh rates above 120 Hz have almost become the standard for high-quality gaming laptops. Screens with 1.080p resolution are currently available with a refresh rate of up to 360 Hz, 4K screens at least with up to 144 Hz. But do refresh rates beyond 120 Hz make sense at all?

The answer is yes – at least for certain games. A faster display can lead to a significantly better kill-death ratio, especially in first-person shooters or in battle royale games. A study carried out on behalf of Nvidia also came to this conclusion.

Accordingly, a 240 Hz monitor can almost double the kill-death ratio compared to a 60 Hz display, and the difference is noticeable even compared to a 120 Hz screen. The results of the study can be seen in the screenshots embedded below, while the video shows the benefits of a faster display. 

In order to be able to use such a fast display, a potent graphics card is also necessary since it must calculate so many images per second (fps). Exactly how much power is required depends primarily on which titles are played and in which resolution they are displayed.

Games, such as Dota 2 Reborn, Rocket League, or Fortnite, require less performance. An Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti should be sufficient in order to achieve 120 fps playing in 1.080p and high details. In more demanding games, such as Assassin's Creed Odyssey or Cyberpunk 2077, even a GeForce RTX 2080 Laptop-GPU struggles to achieve more than 100 fps.

Before buying a gaming laptop featuring a display with 240 Hz let alone 360 Hz you should therefore visit our benchmark list of mobile graphics chips, just to make sure that your favorite games can be displayed with such high refresh rates. Otherwise, paying extra money for a faster display isn't worth it.

The response time determines how long it takes for a pixel to actually change its color – this is often related to the refresh rate, but not always. An example: Some 120 Hz LCDs were only able to achieve a response time of around 35 milliseconds (black to white) in our test despite a frame rate of 120 Hz, whereas 60 Hz OLED displays sometimes achieve less than 2 ms. The response time is always specified in our reviews.

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