The Samsung QN70F is a mid-range 4k TV released in 2025. It's part of Samsung's Neo QLED lineup, which features QLED technology and local dimming, and it sits below the Samsung QN80F. It's powered by Samsung's NQ4 AI Gen2 Processor, which is meant to help with the TV's 4k upscaling and image processing, and it supports up to 4k @ 144Hz on all four of its HDMI 2.1 ports. The TV supports HDR10+ and Dolby audio formats, but there's no support for Dolby Vision or DTS audio formats. We bought and tested the 55-inch model, and it's also available in 65, 75, and 85-inch models.
Note: Despite the similar naming, this TV is different from the Samsung Q7F 2025. That TV is a much lower-end TV in Samsung's 2025 lineup with no local dimming and a basic 60Hz refresh rate.
Our Verdict
The Samsung QN70F is an okay TV overall. It looks best in a moderately lit room, as it's bright enough to overcome glare despite its limited ability to reduce reflections. On the other hand, it's not as well-suited for dark room viewing, as it has low contrast, and its local dimming feature is incredibly ineffective. It has a good selection of features, both for gaming and watching content, with a great selection of apps, VRR support, and HDMI 2.1 bandwidth. It struggles with fast action, though, and there's a lot of motion blur.
Excellent peak brightness in SDR.
Ambient light has little impact on perceived picture quality.
Direct mirror-like reflections are very distracting.
Can't do much to smooth out low-quality content without causing a loss of fine details.
Fast motion is blurry.
User interface is laggy on initial startup.
The Samsung QN70F is just alright for home theater usage. It handles HDR content well enough, with decent processing and high peak brightness. It has low contrast, though, so it doesn't look good in a dark room, and bright highlights don't stand out from the surrounding areas. It doesn't support DTS or Dolby Vision formats, so it's not a great choice for physical media collectors. It has just okay motion handling, and while it removes judder from most sources, there's noticeable stutter in slow panning shots.
Great PQ EOTF tracking.
Removes judder from 24p content.
Very limited local dimming feature doesn't improve picture quality.
Doesn't support Dolby Vision or DTS audio formats.
Low contrast.
The Samsung QN70F is a good TV for use in a bright room. The screen's anti-reflective coating doesn't do much to reduce the intensity of bright, mirror-like reflections, but it's bright enough to overcome glare in most rooms. Ambient light has very little impact on the perceived color saturation or contrast, so you're not losing any picture quality when watching TV during the day.
Excellent peak brightness in SDR.
Ambient light has little impact on perceived picture quality.
Direct mirror-like reflections are very distracting.
The Samsung QN70F is decent for watching sports. It's bright enough to overcome glare in a bright room for daytime games, but colors are muted in light scenes. It also has a limited viewing angle, so it's not a good choice for watching TV with a large group of friends in a wide seating area. It has a slow response time, so fast action is blurry, and it can be hard to see details clearly. Unfortunately, there are also noticeable color artifacts.
Excellent peak brightness in SDR.
Direct mirror-like reflections are very distracting.
Fast motion is blurry.
Noticeable color artifacts.
The Samsung Neo QLED QN70F is just okay for gaming. It has a great selection of gaming features, including VRR support and four HDMI 2.1 bandwidth ports, and it has low input lag in all supported modes. It has a very slow response time, though, so fast games are very blurry. It also has low contrast, so darker games don't look good.
Low input lag across all supported formats.
High refresh rate and VRR support.
Fast motion is blurry.
Low contrast.
The Samsung QN70F has good peak brightness. It's bright enough in SDR to overcome glare in most rooms. HDR content is bright enough to bring out very bright scenes, but due to its limited local dimming feature, bright specular highlights don't stand out.
Excellent peak brightness in SDR.
The Samsung QN70F has poor black levels. The panel itself has decent native contrast, but the local dimming feature is extremely poor. Normally, you'd be better off disabling it entirely, as it actually makes the picture worse in some cases, but that's not even possible on this TV.
Very limited local dimming feature doesn't improve picture quality.
Low contrast.
The Samsung QN70F has good colors. It has excellent color accuracy out of the box in both SDR and HDR, with very few noticeable issues. It also has good color volume in HDR, and colors are bright and vibrant. Oddly, it struggles in SDR, though, as colors lose saturation in lighter scenes.
Good color volume in HDR.
Excellent accuracy before calibration.
Bright colors are very muted in SDR.
The Samsung QN70F has just okay motion handling. It removes judder from almost all sources, ensuring an even frame cadence, and there's no micro judder with most content. It has a fairly slow response time, but there's still some noticeable stutter in slow panning shots. Its motion interpolation feature does a decent job reducing stutter, though. Unfortunately, there are noticeable color artifacts, including unwanted intermediate colors as parts of the screen change from one color to another, and this is noticeable in most content.
Removes judder from 24p content.
Fast motion is blurry.
Noticeable color artifacts.
The Samsung QN70F is a decently responsive TV in Game Mode. It has extremely low input lag in all supported modes, and it supports VRR to reduce screen tearing. On the other hand, it has a very slow response time, so there's a lot of noticeable motion blur in fast scenes.
Low input lag across all supported formats.
High refresh rate and VRR support.
Fast motion is blurry.
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 QN70F has decent processing. It does an okay job smoothing out low-quality content, but there's some loss of fine details, and its upscaling is a bit soft. It handles HDR content well, with great EOTF tracking and good gradient handling, so most content is displayed close to how the content creator intended.
Great PQ EOTF tracking.
Good gradient handling.
Can't do much to smooth out low-quality content without causing a loss of fine details.
Loss of fine details when smoothing out low-quality content.
Performance Usages
Changelog
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Updated Mar 12, 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.
- Updated Feb 12, 2026: Review published.
- Updated Feb 09, 2026: Early access published.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
We bought and tested the 55-inch Samsung QN70F, and these results are also valid for the 65-inch, 75-inch, and 85-inch models. It's also sold in warehouse stores like Sam's Club and Costco as the Samsung QN70FD. The warehouse variant is advertised with Ultimate UHD Dimming instead of Supreme UHD Dimming on the regular version, so it likely has more dimming zones. We don't expect this to significantly improve its local dimming performance or contrast, though.
Note that with Samsung TVs, the four letters after the short model code (FXZC in this case) vary between different retailers and regions, but there's no difference in performance.
| Size | US Model | Short Model Code | Warehouse Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| 55" | QN55QN70FAFXZC | QN55QN70F | QN55QN70FD |
| 65" | QN65QN70FAFXZC | QN65QN70F | QN65QN70FD |
| 75" | QN75QN70FAFXZC | QN75QN70F | QN75QN70FD |
| 85" | QN85QN70FAFXZC | QN85QN70F | QN85QN70FD |
Our unit was made in Mexico in August 2025.
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The Samsung QN70F is an okay TV overall, but it's held back by its outdated and underperforming backlight system. Since it can't be disabled, this feature actually makes the TV look considerably worse than comparable models without local dimming. It's overpriced for the picture quality that it delivers, and you get much better value from competing models like the TCL QM7K or the Hisense U8QG.
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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 Samsung QN70F is much better than the Samsung Q8F 2025. The QN70F is a lot brighter, so it can handle more glare when used in a bright room, and HDR content is more vivid and lifelike. Other than brightness, these two TVs are very similar overall, with a similar range of gaming and smart features.
The TCL QM7K is significantly better than the Samsung QN70F. The TCL delivers much better picture quality thanks to its higher peak brightness and far more effective local dimming feature. HDR is more impactful, as small highlight details stand out much better, and colors are more vibrant. The TCL also does a much better job smoothing out low-quality content, although there's still some loss of fine details.
The TCL QM6K and the Samsung QN70F trade blows in a few different ways, but the TCL is slightly better overall. The Samsung is brighter in most real content, which helps it to overcome more glare in a bright room. The TCL, on the other hand, has much better contrast with a far more effective full array local dimming feature. This results in a better dark room experience, and HDR content looks better on the TCL and small specular highlight details stand out better.
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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