The Samsung 100QN80F is a mid-range 4k TV released in 2025. It's an indirect replacement to the Samsung Q80D, as it's now part of Samsung's Neo QLED lineup, which adds Mini LED local dimming. It's powered by Samsung's NQ4 AI Gen2 Processor, 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 100-inch model (100QN80F), but we also tested the 65-inch model (Samsung 65QN80F) 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
The Samsung 100QN80F is a decent TV. It's best suited for use in a moderately lit room, as although it's bright, it has poor direct reflection handling and can't overcome glare from bright lights or windows. It doesn't look as good in a dark room, though, as it has just okay black levels, and there's noticeable haloing around bright highlights and subtitles on a dark background. It has a great selection of gaming features, with low input lag and great format support. It's not well-suited for competitive gaming, though, as it has poor motion handling, especially at 60Hz.
Fantastic peak brightness in SDR.
Ambient light has no noticeable impact on picture quality.
Very distracting direct mirror-like reflections.
Can't do much to smooth out low-quality content without causing a loss of fine details.
The Samsung 100QN80F is just decent for home theater use. It has just okay black levels, so it doesn't look great in a dark room, and there's noticeable haloing around bright highlights and subtitles. It gets bright in HDR, though, and has great color volume, so bright scenes look a lot better than shadows. Unfortunately, it 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.
Very little stutter.
Excellent PQ EOTF tracking.
Great peak brightness in HDR.
Mediocre zone precision causes significant haloing in dark scenes.
Doesn't support Dolby Vision or DTS.
The Samsung 100QN80F is great for a bright room. It's bright enough in SDR to overcome glare from indirect lighting, but it has disappointing direct reflection handling, so it doesn't perform well if placed opposite a window or in front of bright lights. On the other hand, ambient light has virtually no impact on picture quality.
Fantastic peak brightness in SDR.
Ambient light has no noticeable impact on picture quality.
Very distracting direct mirror-like reflections.
The Samsung 100QN80F is good for sports. It's bright enough to overcome glare in a bright room, and it has decent enough processing to clear up low-quality streams. On the other hand, it has a narrow viewing angle, making it unsuitable for a wide seating arrangement; it struggles with direct reflections, and noticeable uniformity issues are present. It also has disappointing motion handling, and fast motion is blurry.
Fantastic peak brightness in SDR.
Good upscaling.
Very distracting direct mirror-like reflections.
Very noticeable blur in fast motion, especially in shadow details.
Noticeable uniformity issues.
The Samsung 100QN80F is a decent TV for gaming. It has a great selection of gaming features, including a high refresh rate, VRR support to reduce tearing, and HDMI 2.1 bandwidth, so you can take full advantage of the latest gaming consoles or a PC gaming rig. It also has low input lag for a responsive feel, and switching to the dedicated Game Mode has no negative impact on picture quality. Unfortunately, it has poor motion handling when gaming. There's significant blur in fast scenes, and it's significantly worse when gaming at 60Hz.
Low input lag across all supported formats.
Wide selection of gaming features.
Very noticeable blur in fast motion, especially in shadow details.
Very high CAD at 60Hz.
The Samsung 100QN80F has great peak brightness. It's bright enough to overcome indirect glare if you're in a bright room. HDR content is bright enough that small specular highlights stand out incredibly well, and very bright scenes are bright enough to deliver an impactful HDR experience.
Fantastic peak brightness in SDR.
Great peak brightness in HDR.
The Samsung 100QN80F has okay black levels. Blacks are raised in most scenes, and the local dimming feature struggles to dim dark parts of the scene effectively. It has mediocre zone precision, and there's significant haloing around bright highlights or subtitles on a dark background.
Good black uniformity with Local Dimming enabled.
Mediocre zone precision causes significant haloing in dark scenes.
The Samsung 100QN80F has decent colors. It has great accuracy out of the box in SDR, with only a few issues; however, it's less accurate in HDR. It has great color volume in HDR, but it struggles with very light scenes in both SDR and HDR, and colors are noticeably desaturated.
Great color volume in HDR.
Great accuracy in SDR before calibration.
Colors desaturate in light scenes.
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 100QN80F has decent processing capabilities. It has good upscaling, great EOTF tracking in HDR, and excellent gradient handling. It does an okay job smoothing out low-quality content, but there's some loss of fine details that gives the image a bit of a waxy look.
Excellent PQ EOTF tracking.
Very little banding in HDR.
Good upscaling.
Can't do much to smooth out low-quality content without causing a loss of fine details.
The Samsung 100QN80F has okay responsiveness when gaming. It has great format support, including a maximum 144Hz refresh rate that's great for PC gamers, and it has low input lag for a responsive feel. Unfortunately, it has poor motion handling and a very slow response time, so motion is blurry, especially in shadow details.
Low input lag across all supported formats.
Wide selection of gaming features.
144Hz refresh rate.
Very noticeable blur in fast motion, especially in shadow details.
Very high CAD at 60Hz.
We're in the process of fixing the way we evaluate a TV's overall motion handling. This section is currently broken, and the score isn't indicative of how well a TV handles motion overall.
Performance Usages
Changelog
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Updated Nov 25, 2025:
Added a link to our new Best 98-100 Inch TVs recommendation article in the Popular TV Comparisons section.
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Updated Nov 25, 2025:
Added a link to the side-by-side comparison of the 65-inch and 100-inch models in the Differences Between Sizes And Variants section.
- Updated Nov 25, 2025: Review published.
- Updated Nov 21, 2025: Early access published.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
We bought and tested the 100-inch Samsung QN80F, and these results are only valid for that size. We bought and tested the 65-inch Samsung QN80F 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 it's advertised with Ultimate UHD Dimming instead of the Supreme UHD Dimming found on the regular models. However, since Samsung doesn't discuss panel features, we cannot confirm this 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 made in Mexico in July 2025.
Popular TV Comparisons
The Samsung 100QN80F is a decent TV overall. It's a slight improvement over the 65-inch model in some respects, but it's a downgrade in others, and it's incredibly overpriced for the performance it delivers. Competing models, such as the TCL 98QM8K or Hisense 100U8QG, deliver significantly better performance for a fraction of the cost, with higher peak brightness, more accurate colors, and notably improved local dimming.
For more options, check out our recommendations for the best 98-100 inch TVs, the best gaming TVs, and the best TVs.
The Sony BRAVIA 5 98 is a bit better than the Samsung 100QN80F. The Sony isn't quite as bright as the Samsung, but it has significantly better contrast and local dimming, with much less haloing around bright highlights and subtitles. The Sony also has much better colors, and they don't desaturate in light scenes.
The Hisense 100U8QG is significantly better than the Samsung 100QN80F. It delivers much better picture quality, with significantly deeper, more uniform blacks and a lot less haloing around bright parts of the scene. The Hisense is also significantly brighter, allowing bright highlights in HDR to stand out and making bright scenes even more vibrant.
The Samsung 100QN80F is a bit better than its smaller sibling, the 65-inch Samsung QN80F. The larger model gets quite a bit brighter, so HDR content is brighter and more vivid overall, and it can handle a bit more glare from indirect light during the day. On the other hand, its local dimming is worse, and there's more haloing around bright parts of the scene. Check out our in-depth comparison between the 65-inch and 100-inch sizes for more information.
The Samsung 100QN80F is significantly worse than the TCL 98QM8K. The TCL TV delivers much better picture quality, with higher peak brightness for brighter highlights, much better contrast, and more vibrant colors. It looks better in a dark room thanks to its much better local dimming, and there's significantly less haloing around bright parts of the scene.
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 are done with 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.
Test Results
The Samsung 100QN80F has great peak brightness in HDR. Small specular highlights stand out well, and it's bright enough to deliver an impactful viewing experience in outdoor scenes.
Our results are done in the 'FILMMAKER' Picture Mode with 'HDR Tone Mapping' set to 'Static.' If you prefer a brighter image over an accurate one, you can adjust the picture settings to suit your needs. You can see some measurements with those different settings.
This TV handles some scenes a bit differently in Game Mode, resulting in a slightly brighter experience in certain scenes.
This TV has fantastic peak brightness in SDR. It's bright enough to easily overcome glare in a bright room.
The Samsung 100QN80F has mediocre contrast. Blacks are raised, giving the TV a noticeable bluish glow in dark scenes.
Unfortunately, the lighting zone precision on this TV is mediocre. There's significant haloing around bright highlights, and they spread out from the bright, so in mixed scenes with bright and dark areas, a significant portion of the screen is brighter than it should be. This also makes subtitles very distracting in dark content.
The lighting zone transitions on this TV are just okay. It struggles to keep up with fast-moving content, so the leading edge of a bright highlight appears darker than it should, and a long trail remains behind it as the zones are slow to turn off. There's very little flicker, though.
Contrast is actually a bit better in Game Mode, as blacks get a bit deeper with Local Dimming on 'High'. Other than that, though, it's roughly the same experience.
This TV has decent black uniformity. The native uniformity of the panel is just okay, and there are noticeable bright bands on both sides of the TV that don't go away. Thankfully, enabling Local Dimming clears this up well, and the screen has good uniformity in dark scenes.
The Samsung 100QN80F has mediocre color volume in SDR. It does well with low-light scenes, where it covers nearly all of the DCI-P3 color space, but as the image gets lighter, the TV's colors wash out rapidly. In very light scenes, it struggles to display the full range of reds and greens. This washout effect is even more noticeable with BT.2020 content. It's not a good choice if you like to force content into a wider color space.
| Volume ΔE³ | DCI-P3 Coverage |
BT.2020 Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| L10 | 95.34% | 71.14% |
| L20 | 93.95% | 68.75% |
| L30 | 91.57% | 66.91% |
| L40 | 87.54% | 65.13% |
| L50 | 85.38% | 64.06% |
| L60 | 79.48% | 58.11% |
| L70 | 75.88% | 48.94% |
| L80 | 77.48% | 47.84% |
| L90 | 77.96% | 47.93% |
| L100 | 62.01% | 40.99% |
| Total | 81.09% | 55.80% |
This TV has great color volume in HDR. Colors are a bit desaturated at high luminance levels, but it's not nearly as noticeable as it is in SDR. Dark, saturated colors are displayed relatively well, but it's limited a bit by its low contrast.
This TV has great accuracy out of the box in SDR. The white balance and color temperature are both impressive. It has good color accuracy overall, but there are mapping errors across the board that are noticeable to enthusiasts. Unfortunately, gamma tracking is extremely off in midtones and bright shades, and it's severely boosting bright highlights.
This TV has fantastic accuracy after calibration, but it's a bit tricky to calibrate as Local Dimming can't be fully disabled. The color accuracy isn't much better after calibration, but the mapping errors are small enough that only enthusiasts with a trained eye will notice it.
See our full calibration settings.
This TV has just okay accuracy in HDR out of the box. The biggest issue is the color accuracy, which is mediocre out of the box. The white balance and color temperature are slightly improved, but midtones are off a bit, and it's a bit cool out of the box.
The Samsung 100QN80F has excellent HDR accuracy after calibration. The white balance and color temperature are fantastic, and while there are still noticeable color errors, it's not nearly as bad.
The Samsung 100QN80F has very good PQ EOTF tracking. All shades are slightly raised from the target, but it's not too bad. The TV hard clips at its peak brightness with content mastered at 600 and 1,000 nits, but there's a slight roll off with content mastered at 4,000 nits.
Unfortunately, following a firmware change pushed by Samsung earlier this year, this TV and all other 2025 Samsung models no longer support HGIG properly. This is disappointing for gamers, as it's difficult to calibrate HDR brightness. The Game Mode EOTF shows that it's crushing shadow details and over-brightening midtones. Calibration improves it, but it's still not perfect.
The TV has alright low-quality content smoothing. It effectively smooths out macro-blocking and pixelization, but there's also a loss of fine details, and the image has a slightly waxy look.
This TV has good sharpness processing when upscaling low-resolution content like DVDs or lower-resolution streams. Fine details are a bit hard to make out, but the image is sharp and clear overall.
This TV has excellent gradient handling in HDR. There's almost no noticeable banding in any color.
The Samsung 100QN80F has great low input lag across all supported resolutions and modes. The 120Hz input lag is a bit higher than expected, but still low for console gamers.
This TV supports most common formats, up to a maximum of 4k @ 144Hz. Chroma 4:4:4 signals are displayed properly across all supported formats, which is important for clear text from a PC.
The Samsung 100QN80F supports all three types of variable refresh rate (VRR) technology to reduce screen tearing. It works well across a wide refresh rate range, and it's compatible with sources that support Low Framerate Compensation (LFC), which ensures your games remain nearly tear-free even when your frame rate drops very low.
Unfortunately, this TV has a mediocre CAD at its max refresh rate of 144Hz. It struggles the most with shadow details, and the CAD is very slow there, leading to significant motion blur. It also struggles coming out of black to any shade.
Unfortunately, the sluggish shadow transitions are even worse at 120Hz. Shadow details are extremely blurry and hard to make out in fast motion. It's a bit better with midtones and transitions within bright shades.
The CAD at 60Hz is bad. The TV transitions quickly enough for most slow content, and pixels transition most of the way from one shade to the next quickly. It's slow to actually complete the transition, though, and motion is blurry overall.
The Samsung 100QN80F is fully compatible with everything the PS5 offers, like 1440p @ 120Hz and 4k @ 120Hz, as well as HDMI Forum VRR. It also supports Auto Low Latency Mode, so you don't have to worry about manually switching to Game Mode to get the lowest input lag.
The TV is fully compatible with almost everything the Xbox Series X|S offers, including 1440p @ 120Hz, 4k @ 120Hz, HDMI Forum VRR, and FreeSync Premium Pro. It also supports Auto Low Latency Mode, so you don't have to manually switch to Game Mode to get the lowest input lag. Unfortunately, Dolby Vision isn't supported on the TV, so gaming in Dolby Vision isn't possible.
Thanks to this TV's slow response time, there's very little stutter when watching low-framerate content.
The TV automatically removes judder from all sources when watching movies or shows that are in 24p, even if they're in a 60Hz signal, like from a cable box.
The Samsung 100QN80F has a mediocre cinematic response time. Like with Game Mode, it struggles the most in shadow details, so this is really not a good TV for darker content, as motion is incredibly blurry. Bright scenes look a bit better.
The TV uses a combination of pulse-width modulation (PWM) and direct dimming to adjust the backlight intensity. It flickers at 120Hz in most picture modes, except in the 'Movie' Picture Mode, where it flickers at 960Hz at all brightness levels.
This TV has an optional backlight strobing feature, commonly known as black frame insertion (BFI). Unfortunately, it's only supported at 60Hz, and the pulse timing is bad, creating a double image on the screen.
The motion interpolation feature on this TV is pretty bad. It doesn't do much to improve the smoothness of motion, and there are noticeable artifacts even in simple scenes.
The TV's direct reflection handling is poor. It does very little to reduce the intensity of direct mirror-like reflections, so any source of light opposite the screen is clearly visible.
Ambient light has no noticeable impact on black levels.
The total reflected light on this TV is sub-par. Bright direct reflections are very distracting, and there's a noticeable rainbow smear.
Color saturation on this TV doesn't change much when used in a bright room.
The Samsung 100QN80F has a sub-par viewing angle. Not only do colors wash out and shift very quickly, but there is also a significant color divergence, resulting in a noticeable red shift, even at a moderate angle. Black levels rise quickly as you move off of center, so the screen looks slightly washed out.
Unfortunately, this TV has disappointing gray uniformity. There's a bit of dirty screen effect in the center, which can be a bit distracting when watching sports. The sides of the screen are considerably darker than the center, which is even more noticeable.
The Samsung 100QN80F uses a BGR (Blue-Green-Red) subpixel layout instead of the traditional RGB layout. For video or gaming content, this doesn't cause any issues, but for PC monitor use, it can be a problem as it impacts the text clarity, although not everyone will notice this.
The TV uses quantum dots for both green and red, and there's a nice separation of colors.
All four HDMI inputs support the maximum HDMI 2.1 bandwidth of 48Gbps, so you don't need to worry about connecting high-bandwidth devices to specific ports.
This TV supports many audio formats, including all Dolby Digital options. Unfortunately, it doesn't support DTS formats, which is disappointing, as many Blu-rays use DTS for their lossless audio tracks. LPCM 7.1 isn't officially supported in the EDID, so it only works with sources that can override the EDID, like a PC. On other sources, it's limited to 5.1.
Like all Samsung TVs, this TV doesn't support Dolby Vision, but it does support the similar HDR10+.
The 100-inch version of this TV features two feet at either end, replacing the center-mounted stand found on the 65-inch version. The feet are quite simple, but they support the TV well. The feet only lift the bottom of the screen about three inches above the table, so most soundbars fit in front of the TV without blocking the screen.
Footprint of the 100-inch stand: 70.2" x 16.3".
The back of the TV has a nice textured finish. The inputs are housed in a recessed cutout, so they're difficult to access when the TV is mounted close to the wall. They all face to the side, though, so HDMI connectors won't stick out the back. There are some grooves along the back of the TV and the stand to help with cable management.
The Samsung 100QN80F has good overall build quality. It's a bit cheaper than higher-end Samsung models, and there's more plastic used, but it's well-built with no obvious issues.
The TV runs the 2025 version of the Tizen OS, which is quick and easy to use.
Like most TVs on the market, it has ads throughout its interface, and although you can disable targeted ads, there's no option to disable them completely.
The remote has a built-in rechargeable battery with a solar panel on the back of the remote. You can also recharge it via USB-C if it dies unexpectedly.
This TV has a decent frequency response. The biggest issue is with its low-frequency extension, which struggles to reach the threshold set for our test. It's not as bad as the test suggests, and it's only slightly worse than most similar TVs on the market. The sound profile is well-balanced at low and moderate volume, but it struggles a bit to deliver clear dialogue at max volume.
