The 3 Best 4k 144Hz Monitors - Spring 2024 Reviews

The best 4k 144Hz monitor we've tested is the Samsung Odyssey Neo G7 S32BG75. It's a high-end monitor with a max refresh rate of 165Hz, and it provides both good picture quality and gaming performance. 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 at higher refresh rates. 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 in dark rooms. That said, it still has a decent local dimming feature thanks to its Mini LED backlighting, but there's blooming when viewed from the sides.

Besides those differences in picture quality with the Samsung, it still 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. It also has low input lag when gaming at its max refresh rate. However, its input lag increases at 60Hz, so if you play reaction-based games closer to 60Hz, the Cooler Master Tempest GP27U is a better choice for you, but it also costs more than the Acer.

If you're looking for a monitor on a tighter budget, then the LG 27GR93U-B 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 worth buying as they provide good enough gaming performance. That's the case with the LG. However, 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. Though, that's what you have to expect for entry-level 4k 144Hz gaming monitors.

It still has everything you'd expect 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. Motion also looks sharp, especially at its max refresh rate of 144Hz. If you want a bigger option than this monitor's 27-inch screen, you can also check out the 32-inch LG 32GR93U-B, which performs similarly but costs more.