The Samsung QN900D 8k QLED is Samsung's 2024 flagship 8k option that sits above the Samsung QN800D 8k QLED. The TV replaces the Samsung QN900C 8k QLED and features Samsung's proprietary Quantum Matrix Technology Pro, which allows for more precise control of the TV's local dimming zones when compared to their regular Quantum Matrix Technology. It supports 8k @ 60Hz on all four of its HDMI 2.1 ports, but it's also capable of up to 4k @ 240Hz, with full VRR functionality. It utilizes the latest NQ8 AI Gen3 Processor, which is said to be at least twice as fast as the processor used in Samsung's 2024 4k Neo QLED TVs, leading to better upscaling performance in general. Like many of Samsung's super high-end offerings, the TV uses the external One Connect Box to help keep your setup tidy and organized. It uses the 2024 version of Samsung's Tizen OS. We bought and tested the 65-inch model, but it's also available in 75 and 85-inch sizes. The Samsung QN900F 8K is out now, but it's not a direct replacement for this model as it lacks the One Connect box. Instead, the Samsung QN990F 8K is the closest direct replacement.
Our Verdict
The Samsung QN900D is very good for mixed usage. It's very good when you have lights on in your room since it's very bright in SDR and easily overcomes glare from indirect lighting. It also does an adequate job of lessening the intensity of direct reflections. It looks very good in a dark room, too, with very deep blacks and minimal blooming around highlights. Highlights and colors in HDR content are punchy, leading to an impactful HDR experience whether you're watching shows, movies, or playing games. Speaking of gaming, this is a fully-featured gaming TV, although it's held back by its lack of clarity in fast motion. Finally, its viewing angle is okay if you're watching from a slight angle, but the image doesn't hold up well in wide seating arrangements.
Great black levels with minimal blooming.
Great HDR brightness for impactful highlights.
Excellent SDR brightness helps it overcome glare in a well-lit room.
Colors in HDR content are bright and vibrant.
Slow pixel transitions in Game Mode leads to blurry motion.
The Samsung QN900D is very good for a home theater. The TV has great black levels due to its effective local dimming solution, giving it very deep blacks in a dark room with minimal blooming around bright elements. The TV displays vibrant colors with solid accuracy, and it respects the filmmakers' intent when it comes to the brightness of HDR content. Highlights in HDR content also pop out very well, thanks to its great HDR brightness. It has great upscaling, which is extra important for an 8k model since most content will need to be upscaled. However, its low-quality content smoothing is mediocre, and there are still visible artifacts present in low bitrate content and a loss of detail. The TV has some minor stutter, but not everyone will even notice it. Unfortunately, it doesn't support the popular Dolby Vision HDR format and doesn't passthrough DTS audio formats, which is a drawback for those with a 4k Blu-ray collection.
Great black levels with minimal blooming.
Great HDR brightness for impactful highlights.
Excellent low-resolution upscaling.
Colors in HDR content are bright and vibrant.
Solid color accuracy out-of-the-box in both SDR and HDR.
Mediocre low-quality content smoothing leads to a loss of detail and visible artifacts.
No Dolby Vision HDR or DTS audio passthrough.
The Samsung QN900D is very good for a bright room. It has excellent SDR brightness, meaning it overcomes glare from indirect lighting. Its direct reflection handling is adequate at reducing the intensity of light sources opposite the screen, but they're still visible on screen, especially during darker scenes. The TV loses a bit of color saturation in a bright room, and black levels do rise slightly. However, colors still look decent, and blacks remain deep enough that they don't look gray.
Excellent SDR brightness helps it overcome glare in a well-lit room.
Blacks stay deep enough for a pleasant bright room experience.
The Samsung QN900D is very good for watching sports. It has excellent SDR brightness, so it overcomes glare from indirect lighting. It has adequate handling of direct reflections to help lessen the intensity of direct light sources. Colors are true to life, feeds are upscaled well, and motion looks smooth, all of which contribute to a solid-looking image. However, its low-quality content smoothing is mediocre, leading to an image that has a loss of detail and artifacts present in low-bitrate streams and cable broadcasts. Its gray uniformity isn't too bad, but there's still some dirty screen effect that's noticeable during sports like hockey. Finally, the TV has an okay viewing angle, so although it's still not ideal for wide seating arrangements, it's fine if you're watching the screen from a bit of an angle.
Excellent low-resolution upscaling.
Excellent SDR brightness helps it overcome glare in a well-lit room.
Mediocre low-quality content smoothing leads to a loss of detail and visible artifacts.
Some noticeable dirty screen effect towards the center of the screen.
The Samsung QN900D is good for gaming. It has great black levels and colors, leading to a punchy gaming experience. Highlights in HDR games also stand out very well due to its great HDR brightness. The TV has a slew of gaming features like HDMI 2.1 bandwidth and 4k @ 240Hz. You also get 8k @ 60Hz, which is great for those with a PS5 Pro. On top of that, it has VRR to greatly reduce screen tearing when your frame rate is inconsistent. However, the TV has slow pixel transitions, which leads to motion that lacks clarity. Its transitions are especially slow at 240Hz, which holds back the TV's usefulness when gaming at 240fps. The TV has low enough input lag for a responsive gaming experience, but it's not as low at 240Hz as comparable monitors. Unfortunately, there's really not much of a benefit when gaming at 240fps on this TV.
Colors in HDR content are bright and vibrant.
Loaded with modern gaming features.
Slow pixel transitions in Game Mode leads to blurry motion.
Game Mode is dimmer in HDR than other picture modes.
240Hz isn't that beneficial.
The Samsung QN900D has great brightness overall. Its SDR brightness is excellent, helping it overcome glare in bright rooms. You also get great HDR brightness for impactful highlights in HDR movies, shows, and games.
Great HDR brightness for impactful highlights.
Excellent SDR brightness helps it overcome glare in a well-lit room.
The Samsung QN900D has great black levels. Its local dimming feature significantly increases black uniformity and contrast, so the TV delivers deep blacks with minimal blooming around highlights and subtitles.
Great black levels with minimal blooming.
The Samsung QN900D has very good colors overall. Its SDR color volume is satisfactory, so even though most SDR content is vibrant enough to please the viewer, it's not a great choice if you like to push colors into a wider color space to increase saturation. On the other hand, HDR color volume is great, so colors in HDR content are well-saturated and bright. The TV has great accuracy in SDR and outstanding accuracy in HDR before calibration, so this is a TV that stays true to the filmmaker's intent out-of-the-box.
Colors in HDR content are bright and vibrant.
Solid color accuracy out-of-the-box in both SDR and HDR.
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 QN900D's image processing is very good overall, but there are a couple of caveats. Its low-quality content smoothing is mediocre; there's a loss of detail, and artifacts are still present in low bitrate content. Its gradient handling is decent overall, but there's visible banding in bright blues and very apparent banding in dark greens. On the other hand, the TV does a great job upscaling low-resolution content, which is especially important for an 8k TV since most content requires upscaling. It also has fantastic PQ EOTF tracking, so the brightness of HDR content stays true to the content creator's intent.
Excellent low-resolution upscaling.
HDR content has outstanding brightness accuracy.
Mediocre low-quality content smoothing leads to a loss of detail and visible artifacts.
The Samsung QN900D has decent game mode responsiveness. It has a ton of modern gaming features like HDMI 2.1 bandwidth, 8k @ 60Hz, 4k @ 240Hz, and VRR. It has low enough input lag that you don't feel a delay with your inputs, but it's not as low at 240Hz as monitors that support 240fps gaming, and its input lag at 8k @ 60Hz is higher than other resolutions at the same refresh rate. Unfortunately, the TV's gaming performance is really held back by its slow pixel transitions, which leads to motion that lacks clarity. Furthermore, its transitions are very slow at 240Hz, which really limits to usefulness at that refresh rate.
Loaded with modern gaming features.
Slow pixel transitions in Game Mode leads to blurry motion.
240Hz isn't that beneficial.
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 Aug 29, 2025:
We bought and tested the Samsung QN900F 8K, and added a comparison in the Direct Reflections section.
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Updated Jun 11, 2025:
We bought and tested the Samsung QN990F 8K TV and added a comparison to it in the Direct Reflections section.
- Updated May 08, 2025: Converted to Test Bench 2.0.1. We did this to fix an issue with our scoring in the Supported Resolutions section, since TVs with a refresh rate higher than 144Hz were being penalized for not supporting 144Hz.
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Updated Apr 11, 2025:
We wrote text for the new tests and rewrote text throughout the review after updating pre-existing tests and scores for Test Bench 2.0.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
We bought and tested the 65-inch Samsung QN900D, but these results are also valid for the 75 and 85-inch models. Note that the last five letters in the model number (DFXZA in this case) vary between retailers and individual regions, but there's no difference in performance.
| Size | US Model | Short Model Code | UK Short Model Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| 65" | QN65QN900DFXZA | QN65QN900D | QE65QN900D |
| 75" | QN75QN900DFXZA | QN75QN900D | QE75QN900D |
| 85" | QN85QN900DFXZA | QN85QN900D | QE85QN900D |
Our unit was manufactured in March 2024.
Popular TV Comparisons
The Samsung QN900D is a great TV, but it has rather limited appeal due to the lack of 8k content available. This means that other high-end 4k TVs, such as the LG G4 OLED or the Sony BRAVIA 9 QLED, offer better image quality overall even with the lack of 8k capability, as they are brighter, have better contrast, and with better image processing overall. Still, for gamers with extremely powerful PCs or a PS5 Pro, the Samsung is an enticing proposition due to its 4k @ 240Hz and 8k @ 60Hz with full VRR support, but you'd still be better off buying another high-end 4k LED or OLED TV.
For more options, check out our recommendations for the best 8k TVs, the best 4k TVs, and the best QLED TVs.
The Samsung QN900F 8K is a bit better in some ways than the Samsung QN900D 8K, but a bit worse in others. The QN900F has a matte anti-reflective coating instead of the QN900D's glossy finish. This results in much better direct reflection handling, making the QN900F a better choice for a bright room, but it also results in raised blacks in a bright room. There are some noticeable differences in picture quality between them, as the QN900D gets a bit brighter in HDR but not as bright in SDR, and the QN900D has better contrast. Overall, the QN900F is a better choice for a bright room, while the older QN900D is better for a dark room.
The Sony BRAVIA 9 is definitely better than the Samsung QN900D 8K. The Samsung is an 8k TV, but due to the lack of 8k content, it doesn't give it any advantage in image quality over the Sony since almost all content is at 4k resolution or lower. While the Sony has slightly worse contrast with local dimming enabled, it has, in turn, far less blooming and less visible zone transitions than the Samsung. The Sony is also brighter in HDR and SDR, and has far better image processing overall, leading to better image quality in all scenarios. The Samsung is, however, capable of playing games in 4k @ 240Hz or 8k @ 60Hz, which is enticing for gamers with very powerful rigs, but it can't quite make up for the Sony's edge in image quality.
The Samsung QN900D 8K is an incremental improvement over the Samsung QN900C 8K. The newer QN900D has slightly better contrast, gets a bit brighter in HDR, and is capable of 4k @ 240Hz and 8k @ 60Hz with full VRR support. The QN900C is, however, slightly brighter in SDR content, but overall, the QN900D has the edge in every other metric.
The Samsung QN990F 8K and the Samsung QN900D 8K have their own strengths and weaknesses, but the QN900D is a bit better overall. The QN990F uses a matte anti-reflective coating, so it's a bit better overall in a bright room, as direct reflections are almost completely eliminated. This comes with some downsides, though, as blacks are raised and colors lose some vibrancy in bright rooms. The QN900D, on the other hand, is more accurate out of the box, and it has lower input lag.
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