Samsung QN90F Neo QLED

Picture

Display technologyHow the screen makes its picture. OLED types light each pixel on their own for perfect black. Mini LED and QLED are LCDs with a backlight, and tend to get brighter.

Mini LED

Panel typeFor LCD TVs: VA panels have deeper black but narrower viewing angles; IPS/ADS panels hold up better from the side but look grayer in the dark.

VAsource

Panel notes

What Hi-Fi? says the 65-inch panel is VA. Samsung does not name the panel type, and other sizes were not confirmed by the sources read. Samsung markets the colour as Quantum Mini LED Pro with quantum dots.source

BacklightFull-array backlights sit behind the whole screen and allow local dimming. Edge-lit TVs are thinner but dim far less precisely.

Mini LED full-array

Resolution

4K

Picture processor

NQ4 AI Gen3 Processor

Screen finishAnti-glare and matte coatings cut reflections in bright rooms, sometimes at a small cost to perceived contrast.

Glare Free

HDR & color

HDR formatsHDR formats describe how a TV should show bright highlights and rich color. Dolby Vision and HDR10+ adjust the picture scene by scene; a source and TV must both support a format to use it.

HDR10, HDR10+, HDR10+ Adaptive, HLGsource

Wide color technology

Quantum Dot

Refresh & motion

Native refresh rateHow many new images per second the panel can really show. Marketing “motion rates” are often double this number, so check the native figure.

120 Hz

Maximum refresh rateThe highest refresh the TV accepts over HDMI. Sometimes only available at reduced resolution or from a PC.

165 Hzsource

Smart platform

Smart TV platformThe software your TV runs. It decides your home screen, app selection and how often you’ll see ads.

Tizen

Platform version

One UI Tizensource

Voice assistants

Bixby, Amazon Alexa

Apple AirPlay

Yes

Broadcast tunerNeeded to watch free over-the-air TV with an antenna. ATSC 3.0 is the newer US standard; a few TVs have dropped tuners entirely.

ATSC 1.0, ClearQAM

HDMI & connections

HDMI ports

4

HDMI 2.1 portsPorts with enough bandwidth for 4K at 120 Hz and beyond. If you have more than one current console or a gaming PC, count these carefully.

4

HDMI notes

Samsung's spec table lists 4K 165Hz for HDMI 1, 2, 3 and 4. What Hi-Fi? lists all four as 48Gbps HDMI 2.1. Samsung's page does not break out bandwidth port by port.source

eARCEnhanced Audio Return Channel sends high-quality audio from your TV’s apps and inputs back to a soundbar or receiver over one HDMI cable.

Yes

USB ports

2

Optical audio out

Yes

Ethernet

1 x Ethernet

Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi 5

Bluetooth

Bluetooth 5.3

Gaming

Variable refresh rateLets the TV match its refresh to a game’s frame rate, which removes tearing and most stutter.

FreeSync Premium Pro

Auto Low Latency ModeSwitches the TV into game mode automatically when a console starts a game.

Yes

Highest 4K gaming refresh

165 Hz

Dolby Vision gaming

Nosource

HGiGA shared standard that keeps console HDR highlights accurate instead of letting the TV guess.

Yessource

Game menu

Game Bar

Built-in audio

Speaker configuration

4.2.2 channel, 60W (43-inch: 2.0 channel, 20W; 50-inch: 2.2 channel, 40W)

Dolby Atmos

Yes

Accessibility

Accessibility featuresBuilt-in features for low vision, blindness, deafness and hard-of-hearing viewers, as listed by the manufacturer.

Screen reader / voice guide, Audio description, Closed caption styling, High contrast menus, Screen magnification, Color inversion / grayscale, Color vision correction, Sign language zoom

Remote

Solar-powered smart remote (model TM2360E)source