We're expecting 2023 Black Friday monitor deals to be some of the best we've seen in years, and you don't even have to wait until the big day itself to get some fantastic savings, thanks to early sales from retailers like Walmart, Best Buy, and Amazon. To help you sort through all of your options, I've pulled together the top offers available right now, plus everything you need to know about what to expect from this year's biggest shopping event.

Black Friday monitor deals are a great way to save big on the best monitor offerings from major manufacturers like Dell, LG, Philips, and many more. Whether you're looking for Black Friday deals on the best gaming monitors with high refresh rates and quick pixel response or the best 4K monitors with precise color calibration and accuracy for professional creative work like video editing.

With Black Friday falling on November 24 this year, it might seem like you have a long time to wait for the best monitor deals, but with everything from another Amazon Prime Day sale running on October 10 and 11 to early deals to help retailers make space for major Black Friday monitor inventory, you'll have a lot of opportunities to save. In fact, recent trends from Adobe Analytics show that prices for all electronics start falling well before for Black Friday, beginning in the middle of October.

That's why I'll keep bringing you the latest deals as I find them and add them here to this page, as things are already starting to move. So, if you're looking for a new monitor, check back regularly to find the best early Black Friday monitor deals on the right display for your needs and budget.

Today's best monitor sales

• Amazon: discounts on all kinds of monitors
• Best Buy: monitor deals from $89.99
• Newegg: great deals on gaming displays
• Walmart: cheap monitors from under $100
• Adorama: premium and ultrawide deals

Today's best monitor deals

BLACK FRIDAY Monitor DEALS 2023: KEY INFORMATION

Last Year's best deals

Often, it's good to see what last year's deals looked like to better understand what this year's Black Friday monitor deals are likely to offer. Fortunately, we held onto our favorites from last year to help you research which monitor might be a good one to look out for.

Intel Meteor Lake processors, the next-next-generation CPU from Intel due out in 2023, are expected to feature ray tracing support on a tiled-GPU architecture, marking a major step forward for the technology.

Ray tracing is a rendering process that lights up a rendered scene by mimicking the way we actually see light. This sounds almost silly (don't we see all light?), but making an artificial scene look natural requires calculating the intricate physics involved in how light behaves, and this is a genuinely daunting task from a computational perspective.

As it stands, ray tracing technology is currently only viable in gaming PCs with the best graphics cards or the best gaming laptops with discrete GPUs, making it a revolutionary technology that remains locked away in more "elite" applications on high-end hardware.

Intel's bringing the technology to its "integrated" Intel Xe graphics platform is a major advance in the technology that could make it far more accessible, however. We put integrated in quotes here since – as Wccftech points out – it's not quite the same thing as current-gen integrated graphics; it's actually a tiled architecture that's more like a system-on-a-chip than traditional integration into a single CPU die.

What matters though is that this is the kind of chip that will be going into standard laptops like ultrabooks or even the best Chromebooks that feature beefier specs like the one in our HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook review.

Intel is already working on its own graphics upscaling tech to pair with its somewhat-beleagured Intel Arc desktop graphics cards, and that tech could easily make its way into Intel's 14th-gen processors. If so, it could make some of the best cheap laptops very capable 1080p gaming machines.

Could Intel Meteor Lake bring next-gen graphics to everyday users?

While we haven't even gotten our hands on Intel Raptor Lake chips yet – those are expected to launch as soon as October of this year – the first Intel Meteor Lake chips could land as soon as late 2023. If that's the case, you could be playing something like Cyberpunk 2077 with modest settings and some ray tracing on a base-spec Dell XPS 13 at a playable frame rate.

This isn't to say that a single processor is going to turn even the best Ultrabooks into true gaming laptops. But with the advances in GPU technology that comes with something like ray tracing, it will have ancillary benefits for overall performance and – with proper settings tweaks (and upscaling technology) – you won't be restricted to playing light-duty or casual games like Civilization VI on a basic laptop.

As for desktops, this will be less of an advance, since most desktops have a free PCIe slot to slap in one of the best cheap graphics cards around capable of ray tracing, and these will run circles around the integrated graphics of even the best processors in Intel's 14th-gen lineup.

So this is mostly an issue for laptops, which is the fastest growing segment of the computer market by far. Traditional laptops have tended to be fairly light on gaming performance since this dramatically improves energy efficiency (i.e., battery life) and keeps costs down.

By integrating a ray-tracing GPU into the standard processor package for these laptops, we're going to see much more powerful performance across a whole range of graphics-intensive applications from video streaming to gaming at a much more affordable price point.

We've gotten a taste of this kind of performance already, and it is truly impressive

We already saw something similar in our Asus ZenBook S 13 OLED review, which is one of the first laptops to feature an AMD processor with integrated RDNA 2 graphics. 

While the gaming performance wasn't mind-blowing in absolue terms, the fact that you could even run Port Royal on an Ultrabook is a major advance. Unfortunately, finding the ZenBook S 13 OLED is a frustrating challenge, something that wouldn't be the case with a laptop running Intel Meteor Lake.

While it will be some time yet before we see these laptops, it's good to know that they are coming, and it could offer consumers far more performance without having to make total sacrifices for affordability like they currently have to do. This can only be good for everyday consumers, whether you're a serious gamer or not.

With Intel Raptor Lake set to release in the coming months, it looks like the entire launch lineup for the next-gen processor series from Team Blue have leaked ahead of their announcement.

A user going by the name Extreme Player on the Chinese social media site Bili Bili posted the specs for 14 SKUs in total, covering Core i3 to Core i9 processors (first flagged by Wccftech).

The topline numbers show a 24-core i9 processor (eight performance cores and 16 efficiency cores) with 32 threads,which doubles the number of efficiency cores as the flagship Alder Lake i9-12900K. The rest of the specs are below, as posted on Bili Bili.

Obviously, these specs haven't been announced by Intel, so they need to be taken with a grain of salt, but the specs are in line with other rumors we've heard.

Analysis: Can Intel rein in some of its power?

One of the things about the big.LITTLE architecture pioneered by ARM is that it is supposed to be substantially more energy efficient than traditional pocessor architecture.

This is definitely the case with Apple silicon powering the best MacBook and Macs, as well as the best phones and best tablets on the market utilizing these kinds of processors.

It hasn't turned out to be the case with Intel Alder Lake though, which uses a lot of power compared to other chips released in recent years, which has been especially true of its mobile chips.

I'll be especially interested to see if Intel can make their chips more power-conscious with this generation, but given some of the benchmark scores we've seen lately, I think it's likely to be full steam ahead.