The 6 Best 4k Gaming TVs - Winter 2023 Reviews

The best 4k TV for gaming we've tested is the Samsung S95B OLED. It's an amazing TV for gaming thanks to its low input lag and near-instantaneous response time, resulting in crystal-clear motion with no ghosting or motion blur around fast-moving objects. It's great for PC and console gamers alike, thanks to its HDMI 2.1 bandwidth on all four HDMI ports, so you'll enjoy perfect 4k @ 120Hz gaming from a recent PC, Xbox, or PS5. If your console of choice is the PS5, you might want to consider the Sony A95K OLED instead. It offers very similar picture quality, but it has a few unique features that ensure you get the best experience possible with the PS5.

It delivers impressive picture quality thanks to its unique QD-OLED panel. It delivers incredibly deep blacks, making this an impressive TV for gaming in a dark room. It's also amazing for gaming in HDR, but it doesn't support Dolby Vision, and relatively few games support Dolby Vision. It also looks great in bright rooms, with high peak brightness that allows it to easily overcome glare. It also has an incredibly wide viewing angle, so it's a great choice for couch co-op or party games with a wide seating arrangement.

The best upper mid-range 4k gaming TV we've tested is the Samsung QN90B QLED. It's an excellent gaming TV that's available in a wide range of sizes, and you can even get it in a 43-inch size with a higher 144Hz refresh rate if you want to use it for PC gaming. Motion is clear, with very little blur behind fast-moving objects, thanks to its excellent response time, but there's a bit more blur than on the Samsung S95B OLED. Like the S95B, it has a great selection of gaming features, including HDMI 2.1 bandwidth for 4k @ 120Hz gaming and support for variable refresh rate technology to reduce screen tearing.

It looks great in a dark room thanks to its Mini LED backlight, resulting in deep blacks in a dark room, but it's not quite as good as the S95B, as there's more noticeable blooming around bright objects, including subtitles. It gets a lot brighter, especially when displaying large, bright screens like in many sports games. It's bright enough to overcome any amount of glare in an extremely bright room, and it's even bright enough to use outdoors, but it's not weather-proof, so you'd need an appropriate enclosure.

If you want great gaming performance and are on a tighter budget, check out the Sony X90K. It's an impressive gaming TV with all the same features as the higher-end TVs, but its overall picture quality isn't as good. Still, it looks great in dark rooms because it has a VA panel with a high native contrast ratio for deep blacks and has a good full-array local dimming feature that further improves the picture quality in dark scenes. If you're a fan of HDR gaming, you'll enjoy the impressive HDR peak brightness as highlights pop, but you don't get the same peak brightness as the Samsung TV.

Like the higher-end TVs, it also has HDMI 2.1 bandwidth that makes it fully compatible with the Xbox Series X and PS5, and as it's a Sony product, it has a few features exclusively for the PS5, like Auto HDR Tone Mapping and Auto Genre Picture mode for the best HDR experience. It's G-SYNC compatible and supports HDMI Forum VRR, but it doesn't support FreeSync, which isn't ideal if you're a PC gamer with an AMD graphics card. Lastly, it has great motion handling and low input lag, but its input lag is higher than other TVs.

If you want something in the mid-range category and don't want to compromise on gaming features, the Hisense U8H is cheaper than the Sony X90K and delivers an amazing gaming experience. It has an excellent response time resulting in clear motion when gaming, and it's compatible with the VRR feature on the Xbox Series X and the PS5, ensuring a nearly tear-free gaming experience. Combined with its fantastic low input lag, this results in an incredibly smooth and responsive gaming experience.

It's great for console gamers with an Xbox Series S|X or a PS5, as two of its HDMI ports support HDMI 2.1 bandwidth and 4k @ 120Hz gaming. Sadly, 4k @ 120Hz signals aren't displayed properly at the moment. It isn't noticeable with games, and Hisense has confirmed that they're working on a fix.

The best budget 4k TV for gaming we've tested is the TCL 5 Series/S555 2022 QLED. It's a great TV that delivers an impressive gaming experience thanks to its low input lag and very good response time, ensuring a smooth gaming experience with very little blur. Unlike most budget TVs, it even supports variable refresh rate technology, but since it's limited to a 60Hz refresh rate, VRR only works over a much smaller range than it does on the Hisense U8H.

The 5 Series delivers great picture quality when gaming. It has a superb contrast ratio and decent local dimming feature, making it a good choice for gaming in a dark room. It also gets bright enough to overcome glare and has decent reflection handling, so it's an equally good choice for a bright room. It supports HDR and VRR with both of the new-gen consoles, and thanks to its automatic low latency mode, you don't have to worry about switching to game mode to get the best gaming experience.

If you want something cheap, the best cheap 4k gaming TV we've tested is the Insignia F50 QLED. As a cheap TV, it's very light on extra gaming features, so unlike the more expensive models on this list, there's no variable refresh rate support, and it's limited to a 60Hz refresh rate. It's still decent overall for gaming, though, especially if you prefer more immersive games like RPGs or turn-based strategy games that are heavier on graphics and don't benefit as much from a higher frame rate.

It delivers surprisingly good picture quality, with an excellent color gamut, great accuracy before calibration, and excellent contrast. It looks good in a dark room, but unlike the TCL 5 Series/S555 2022 QLED, there's no local dimming feature to bring out bright highlights and improve dark room performance.