how can a monitor have a 1ms response time when the refresh rate isn’t 1000Hz?

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My computer monitor advertises a 1ms response time and the refresh rate is 144Hz. Wouldn’t that mean that the best response time possible is 1/144s?

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The response time is the time it takes to shift displaying one color to another. Being able to very quickly switch between colors doesn’t mean the monitor is being directed to display new colors that quickly. A monitor with a 1 ms response time running at 1000 Hz would constantly be changing colors, only having just arrived at the color from the previous frame when it starts to shift to the next.

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