The Refresh Rate 1) is the number of times in a second that a display refresh the screen by redrawing the content of its buffer.
Most devices today refresh their screens 60 times a second (60 Hz). An application must then put a new image every 10 ms
<MATH> \text{Refresh Rate} \approx 10 ms \approx \frac{1}{60} - \text{overhead} </MATH>