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There’s nothing that takes me out of a game more than frame tearing. I mean, my day-to-day life is visually smooth and fluid, and I expect as much from my video games. But sometimes things get out of sync, and the fabric of visual reality is torn. (I’m still talking about video games here and not my life, honest!)
Simply put, screen tearing is caused when the refresh rate of your monitor is out of sync with the output from your graphics card. If your monitor isn’t done drawing an image before your computer sends it the next frame, any movement can cause tearing. It can look like your display has been torn in half with mismatched images on the top and bottom of the screen.
Source: IGN.com Best Cheap G-Sync Monitors 2019: Budget Gaming Screens for Nvidia GPUs