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The benefits are mostly realised when playing games:

* Higher refresh rates means more frames can be displayed each second by the monitor

* Lower latency between some input action (mouse, keyboard) and the frame being drawn on the monitor (provided your game can run at a matching number of frames per second; FPS)

* Synching your FPS to refresh rate (e.g. if you're game can run at a locked 280fps and your monitor is running at 280hz) will remove tearing and provide a very smooth experience

On the desktop the benefits are less pronounced: Everything just feels a bit smoother, like moving your mouse point/open windows around the monitor.

Such high refresh rate displays normally aren't very colour accurate when compared to displays used for media editing.