The 3 Best 4k 144Hz Monitors - Fall 2024

The best 4k 144Hz monitor we've tested is the Samsung Odyssey Neo G7 S32BG75. It's a high-end monitor with both good picture quality and gaming performance. Although it has a native 165Hz refresh rate, it still performs well at 144Hz. Motion looks crisp thanks to its fast response time across its entire refresh rate range, and it also has a backlight strobing feature to reduce persistence blur. It even supports all common VRR formats to help reduce screen tearing with any type of graphics card.

On top of its great gaming performance, it delivers good picture quality with deep blacks and bright highlights, and its Mini LED local dimming feature helps improve the picture quality in dark scenes. This monitor sits below the Samsung Odyssey Neo G8 S32BG85, which is very similar in terms of picture quality and offers an even higher 240Hz refresh rate. This is great if you want the highest refresh rate possible with a 4k monitor, but the Neo G7 is cheaper and worth getting if you don't have a PC that can maintain such high frame rates with a 4k signal anyway.

Should you find the Samsung Odyssey Neo G7 S32BG75 too much out of your price range, check out a mid-range option like the Acer Nitro XV275K P3biipruzx. It's a bit different from the Samsung because it has a different panel type with a lower native contrast ratio, so its picture quality is worse if you don't use its local dimming feature, as blacks look gray. That said, using the Mini LED local dimming feature results in much better picture quality with deep blacks. It also gets far brighter than the Samsung in HDR, and highlights truly pop.

Besides those differences in picture quality with the Samsung, it offers good gaming performance with a consistently fast response time, so motion looks sharp. Although its max refresh rate is 160Hz, you can only reach that over a DisplayPort connection, and the max refresh rate over HDMI is 144Hz. Like the Samsung, it supports HDMI 2.1 bandwidth to take full advantage of gaming consoles.

If you're looking for a monitor on a tighter budget, then the Gigabyte M27U is a good choice. Although entry-level 4k 144Hz monitors cost more than other budget-friendly monitors with lower resolutions, they're at least getting cheaper and becoming more accessible, which is the case with the Gigabyte. The biggest trade-off versus the Acer Nitro XV275K P3biipruzx is that it doesn't have a local dimming feature, so its picture quality is much worse, especially for dark room gaming. However, that's what you have to expect for entry-level gaming monitors.

It still has everything you'd hope to find in a gaming monitor, including VRR support to reduce screen tearing and HDMI 2.1 bandwidth to take full advantage of modern graphics cards and consoles. Motion also looks sharp, especially at its max refresh rate of 160Hz. It even has a few useful features like a KVM switch that makes it easy to switch between different computers, like if you have gaming and work PCs connected to the monitor.