The 5 Best 120Hz TVs - Spring 2023 Reviews

The best 120Hz TV we've tested is the Samsung S95B OLED. It's an incredible TV with fantastic picture quality and great gaming features. It supports HDMI 2.1 bandwidth on all four of its HDMI ports, meaning you can take full advantage of multiple 4k @ 120Hz sources, like a PS5, Xbox Series X, or recent PC graphics card. It has a near-instantaneous response time that delivers a fantastic gaming experience, with no distracting ghosting or motion blur around fast-moving objects. You can react quickly to the action on-screen thanks to its incredibly low input lag, and it also supports some advanced gaming features like FreeSync variable refresh rate technology to reduce tearing.

It looks amazing in a dark room, as bright highlights in HDR content stand out incredibly well, with no distracting blooming or haloing around bright areas of the scene. Combined with its incredibly wide color gamut and great color volume, games in HDR look incredibly vivid and lifelike. It also has an incredibly wide viewing angle, making it a great choice for couch co-op gaming or party games, as the image won't degrade if you're sitting at an angle.

If you're in a bright room and don't need the perfect blacks of the Samsung S95B OLED, a Mini LED TV with higher peak brightness, like the Samsung QN90B QLED, is a better choice. It's an impressive TV that still delivers impressive picture quality with incredibly high peak brightness making it a better choice for a bright living room. It has nearly identical features to the S95B, with the same great selection of gaming features, including HDMI 2.1 bandwidth on all four inputs.

It's available in a very wide range of sizes, from a 43-inch size that's great for a bedroom or office up to a massive 85-inch model for the ultimate home theater experience. All sizes deliver the same incredible picture quality, with a wide viewing angle, deep blacks, and a wide color gamut for HDR content. It runs Samsung's Tizen OS interface, which has a great selection of streaming apps and is very easy to use.

The LG C2 OLED is the best mid-range TV with a 120Hz refresh rate that we've tested. It's an excellent TV that delivers exceptional picture quality. Its OLED panel delivers deep, inky blacks with perfect uniformity and no distracting blooming around bright objects. Its near-infinite contrast ratio allows it to display bright highlights right next to deep blacks, creating an incredibly immersive and realistic viewing experience. It's a bit worse than the Samsung S95B OLED, though, as colors aren't as bright and vibrant, so HDR content doesn't stand out as much.

It has a great selection of gaming features, including variable refresh rate (VRR) support to reduce screen tearing and HDMI 2.1 bandwidth on all four of its HDMI inputs, meaning you can play 4k games up to 120 fps without any issue from the Xbox Series X and PS5. Its nearly-instantaneous response time delivers an incredible advantage for competitive gamers, as there's no noticeable motion blur behind fast-moving objects. Combined with its extremely low input lag, it's also the best 4k 120Hz TV for gaming.

The best lower mid-range 120Hz TV we've tested is the Hisense U8H. It's an excellent TV and gets incredibly bright, making it an amazing choice for a bright room. It delivers impressive picture quality, with a fantastic contrast ratio that delivers deep, uniform blacks in a dark room and an impressive Mini LED local dimming feature that improves contrast significantly. HDR content looks amazing, thanks to its wide color gamut and exceptional peak brightness in HDR.

It has two HDMI 2.1 ports, which allow it to take full advantage of the Xbox Series X and PS5 consoles. It supports 4k @ 120Hz gaming and has an excellent response time, resulting in clear motion. It also has superb low input lag and a great selection of gaming features, including FreeSync support. It's not quite as versatile as the LG C2 OLED, though, as there's some blooming in dark scenes and more noticeable motion blur in some content.

The best 4k 120Hz TV in the budget category we've tested is the Hisense U7H. Despite its low price tag, it supports 4k @ 120Hz gaming on two of its HDMI inputs and offers a great array of gaming features. It can take full advantage of the new-gen consoles, including variable refresh rate support to reduce screen tearing.

It delivers great picture quality thanks to its high peak brightness, excellent contrast, and good full array local dimming feature. It has a wide color gamut and good peak brightness in HDR, so HDR games look incredibly vivid and lifelike. However, it has a much slower response time than the Hisense U8H, so you'll see more blur behind fast-moving objects in games, and it has worse reflection handling, so it's not as good in a bright room.