The Samsung QN80F is a mid-range 4k TV released in 2025. It replaces the Samsung Q80D from 2024, but Samsung now includes this model range as part of their Neo QLED lineup, sitting below the Samsung QN85F and the Samsung QN90F. It's powered by Samsung's NQ4 AI Gen2 Processor, which is meant to help with the TV's 4k upscaling, and it supports up to 4k @ 144Hz, with full VRR capabilities, on all four of its HDMI 2.1 ports. As usual with Samsung, the TV supports the HDR10+ format but not Dolby Vision, and it passes through advanced audio formats from Dolby but not from DTS. We bought and tested the 65-inch model, and we also bought and tested the 100-inch model separately. It's also available in 55, 75, and 85-inch models.
Note: Despite the similar naming, this TV is different from the Samsung Q8F 2025. That TV is a much lower-end TV in Samsung's 2025 lineup.
Our Verdict
Overall, the Samsung QN80F is a decent TV. It's best-suited for watching shows or movies in a moderately lit room, but it can handle a bright room as long as there are no lights directly opposite the TV. Gamers will appreciate its low input lag and wide selection of gaming features, but its motion handling isn't the best, and there's noticeable motion blur. As for home theater purists, it's pretty accurate before calibration, and it has good processing, but there are some noticeable black uniformity issues and clouding in dark rooms.
Excellent peak brightness in SDR.
Watching in a bright room has little impact on picture quality.
Distracting direct mirror-like reflections.
Can't do much to smooth out low-quality content without causing a loss of fine details.
The Samsung QN80F is just decent for home theater use under reference conditions. It has good accuracy before calibration, but it definitely benefits from a proper calibration if you care about creative intent. It tracks the PQ EOTF well, so most content is displayed close to the correct brightness, but it can't get very bright in HDR, and the brightest highlights are lost. It also has limited format support, with no Dolby Vision or DTS support, so if you're using an external 4k Blu-ray player, you'll want to connect it directly to your soundbar or receiver instead of using eARC. It has decent motion handling, but there are some noticeable color artifacts, with a noticeable red tint around most fast-changing colors. It also has some noticeable stutter in slow panning shots.
Excellent PQ EOTF tracking.
Some noticeable backlight glow and cloudiness in dark scenes.
Only okay peak brightness in HDR.
Doesn't support Dolby Vision or DTS.
Noticeable color artifacts in all content.
Noticeable stutter in slow panning shots.
The Samsung QN80F is a decent TV for use in a bright room. It has alright peak brightness, so it can handle some glare in a bright room, and light hitting the screen has little impact on the overall picture quality. It can't handle direct reflections, though, so any windows or lights directly opposite the screen are clearly visible and distracting.
Excellent peak brightness in SDR.
Watching in a bright room has little impact on picture quality.
Distracting direct mirror-like reflections.
The Samsung QN80F is a good TV for watching sports. It has great peak brightness, so you can watch it during the day with no major issues, as long as there are no windows or lights directly opposite the TV. It has good upscaling capabilities, which is important if you're watching lower-resolution streams from cable or even most sports apps. On the other hand, the response time isn't the greatest, so it's a bit blurry when the action really gets going, which can be distracting. There are also noticeable uniformity issues, and the sides of the screen are darker than the center. Unfortunately, there are noticeable color artifacts in fast-changing colors, including a distinct red shift on lighter skin tones that's noticeable when watching sports.
Excellent peak brightness in SDR.
Good upscaling.
Distracting direct mirror-like reflections.
Noticeable blur in fast motion.
Noticeable color artifacts in all content.
Noticeable uniformity issues.
The Samsung QN80F delivers a decent overall gaming experience. It has a wide selection of gaming features, including support for up to 4k @ 144Hz signals, VRR support, and extremely low input lag for a responsive gaming experience. There are a few issues, though, as switching to the dedicated Game Mode results in a slight decrease in picture quality, especially in dark scenes. Motion handling is also a bit limited, and there's noticeable blur in fast action.
Low input lag across all supported formats.
Wide selection of gaming features.
Noticeable blur in fast motion.
Slightly worse picture quality in Game Mode.
The Samsung QN80F has decent peak brightness. It's bright enough in SDR to overcome glare in a room with the overhead lights turned on. In HDR, most content looks good, and small bright highlights stand out well, but the brightest content falls short, and super-bright details are lost.
Excellent peak brightness in SDR.
Only okay peak brightness in HDR.
Unfortunately, the black levels on the Samsung QN80F are just okay. It has decent contrast, and the local dimming feature helps a bit to improve dark scene performance, but it's not perfect, and there's some noticeable glow in dark scenes.
Some noticeable backlight glow and cloudiness in dark scenes.
Colors on the Samsung QN80F are decent overall. It has good color accuracy in SDR and good color volume in HDR, but there's an unusual loss of saturation in the brightest scenes. Color accuracy in HDR is also just decent, and every color is noticeably off.
Good color volume in HDR.
Accurate in SDR before calibration.
Colors desaturate at high luminance levels.
The Samsung QN80F has decent motion handling when watching content. There's noticeable stutter in slow panning shots, but its motion interpolation feature is effective at reducing it without adding the soap opera effect, and it maintains a smooth frame pacing while doing so. It can remove judder from all sources except for 25p European content sent over a 60p signal, but this is an uncommon situation and mainly affects older cable boxes and streaming devices. On the other hand, there are noticeable color artifacts in fast-changing colors, with a distinct red shift on most colors. Edges on fast transitions are sharp and clear, though.
Motion interpolation feature is effective at reducing stutter while maintaining smooth frame pacing.
Good cinematic response time.
Noticeable color artifacts in all content.
Noticeable stutter in slow panning shots.
The Samsung QN80F has good responsiveness in Game Mode. It has very low input lag across all supported resolutions and refresh rates, ensuring a responsive gaming experience. Motion is a different story, though, as there's distracting blur around fast motion, even at the max refresh rate of 144Hz.
Low input lag across all supported formats.
Wide selection of gaming features.
144Hz refresh rate.
Noticeable blur in fast motion.
Slightly worse picture quality in Game Mode.
Note: We're in the process of improving our tests related to image processing, but this score should give you a general idea of how a TV performs overall with its image processing capabilities.
The Samsung QN80F has good overall image processing. It upscales lower-resolution content well, with no artificial oversharpening or other related issues. It also tracks the PQ EOTF well in HDR, ensuring most content is displayed close to the brightness level the content creator intended. There's also very little banding in HDR. Its processing capabilities when watching low-quality sources are a bit more limited, though, as it can only remove a bit of pixelization and macro-blocking, and there's some loss of fine details.
Very little banding in HDR.
Good upscaling.
Can't do much to smooth out low-quality content without causing a loss of fine details.
Performance Usages
Changelog
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Updated Mar 11, 2026:
We added text to our new Cinematic Motion Handling performance usage and our new Transition Artifacts and Stutter Reduction Via Interpolation test sections after converting the review to TV 2.2.
- Updated Mar 10, 2026: This review has been updated to TV 2.2. We've added new sections for Transition Artifacts and Stutter Reduction Via Interpolation, and updated the way we test Stutter. Additionally, we removed the 'Broken' disclaimer from our Motion Handling usage.
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Updated Feb 12, 2026:
We bought and tested the Samsung QN70F and added a comparison in the Lighting Zone Transitions section of the review.
- Updated Jan 20, 2026: We added text to the new Micro-Judder section and refreshed the text in the updated Judder and Response Time Stutter sections after converting the review to TV 2.1.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
We bought and tested the 65-inch Samsung QN80F, and these results also apply to the 55-inch, 75-inch, and 85-inch models. We bought and tested the 100-inch model separately. It's also sold in warehouse stores like Sam's Club and Costco as the QN80FD. Samsung's marketing around the warehouse variant suggests that it has more dimming zones, as they advertise it with Ultimate UHD Dimming instead of the Supreme UHD Dimming found on the regular models, but as Samsung doesn't discuss panel features, we don't know for sure. We also put the 65-inch and 100-inch models together in a head-to-head comparison; you can read our findings here.
| Size | US Model | Short Model Code | Warehouse Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| 55" | QN55QN80FAFXZA | QN55QN80F | QN55QN80FD |
| 65" | QN65QN80FAFXZA | QN65QN80F | QN65QN80FD |
| 75" | QN75QN80FAFXZA | QN75QN80F | QN75QN80FD |
| 85" | QN85QN80FAFXZA | QN85QN80F | QN85QN80FD |
| 100" | QN100QN80FFXZA | QN100QN80F | QN100QN80FD |
Our unit was manufactured in Mexico in March 2025, and you can see a photo of its label here.
Popular TV Comparisons
The Samsung QN80F QLED is a decent mid-range 4k TV with a wide selection of smart features, including many great gaming features. Its Mini LED backlight and quantum dot color layer help deliver okay overall picture quality. It's a bit overpriced for the performance it delivers, though, and you can get much more bang for your buck from cheaper models offered by other brands, like the Hisense U8QG or the TCL QM7K.
For more options, check out our recommendations for the best QLED TVs, the best 4k gaming TVs, and the best TVs.
The Samsung QN90F is significantly better than the Samsung QN80F in almost every way. The QN90F delivers much better picture quality, with better contrast, higher peak brightness, and better colors. They're more closely matched when it comes to gaming and motion, though, as both have noticeable blur in fast scenes and a similar selection of gaming features. Still, even gamers will benefit from the better picture quality the QN90F delivers, so it's still the far better TV.
The Samsung QN80F is slightly better than the Samsung QN70F. While they deliver a similar overall experience, the QN80F has a more effective local dimming feature. This helps it deliver a more impactful HDR experience, as small specular highlight details stand out from the background better than they do on the QN70F.
The TCL QM7K is a much better TV than the Samsung QN80F. The TCL has a much better local dimming feature, resulting in deeper, more uniform blacks and a better overall dark-room experience. The TCL is brighter, and although neither TV is all that great in a bright room, the TCL can handle direct reflections a bit better. As for gaming and motion in general, they're more closely matched, with similar input lag and motion handling, but the TCL still wins thanks to its better picture quality in Game Mode.
The Sony BRAVIA 5 and the Samsung QN80F are very similar overall, and the best one depends on what you care about the most. The Samsung gets a bit brighter in HDR and SDR, so bright highlights stand out a bit better, and it can overcome a bit more glare during the day. The Sony, on the other hand, has much better color reproduction, as it can display a wider range of colors, and colors are more vibrant overall. The Sony TV also has better processing, which is great if you watch a lot of low-quality or low-resolution content.
We buy and test dozens of TVs yearly, taking an objective, data-driven approach to deliver results you can trust. Our testing process is complex, with hundreds of individual tests that take over a week to complete. Most of our tests use specially designed test patterns that mimic real content, but we also use the same sources you have at home to ensure our results match the real-world experience. We use two main tools for our testing: a Colorimetry Research CR-100 colorimeter and a CR-250 spectroradiometer.
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