The 5 Best 120Hz TVs - Fall 2023 Reviews

The best 120Hz TV we've tested is the Samsung S90C OLED. It's an incredible TV with fantastic picture quality and great gaming features. It supports up to 4k @ 144Hz on its four HDMI 2.1 bandwidth ports, meaning you can take full advantage of multiple HDMI 2.1 sources, like a PS5, Xbox Series X, or a 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 all variable refresh rate (VRR) technologies for nearly tear-free gaming.

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. Its incredibly wide viewing angle makes it a great choice for couch co-op gaming or party games, as the image stays consistent when viewed at an angle. You can also opt for 2022's Samsung S95B OLED if you find it for a great price, but it's a tad dimmer than the S90C, lacks official 4k @ 144Hz support, and is only available in a 55 and 65-inch format.

If you're in a bright room and don't need the perfect blacks of the Samsung S90C OLED, a Mini LED TV with higher peak brightness, like the Sony X93L/X93CL, 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 excellent contrast, helped by a good local dimming feature, is colorful, and has amazing image processing to make any content look its best. It has a great selection of gaming features, including HDMI 2.1 bandwidth inputs, although unlike some of its competitors, it only has two HDMI 2.1 ports, one of them being the eARC port.

The TV supports Dolby Vision HDR and advanced DTS audio formats, so movies look and sound their best on the Sony no matter their source. It also has an ATSC 3.0 tuner, so it streams 4k content over-the-air. It's available in three sizes, from a 65-inch size to a massive 85-inch model, giving a great home theater experience. All sizes deliver incredible picture quality, with an acceptable viewing angle, deep blacks, and a wide color gamut for HDR content. It runs the Google TV smart 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 provides deep, inky blacks with perfect uniformity and no distracting blooming around bright objects. Its near-infinite contrast ratio allows it to display bright highlights next to deep blacks, creating an incredibly immersive and realistic viewing experience. It's worse than the Samsung S90C OLED, though, as colors are less 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, so 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. This and its extremely low input lag make it one of the best 4k 120Hz TVs for gaming. The LG C3 OLED has since replaced this TV; it's marginally brighter, has better image processing, and supports DTS audio formats. The newer model is better overall than its predecessor, but it's too close in price to the superior Samsung S90C OLED; either save some money with the C2 or go for the Samsung.

The best lower mid-range 120Hz TV we've tested is the Hisense U8K. 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 provides deep, uniform blacks in a dark room and a 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. Going with a cheaper model means you lose out on a wide viewing angle, as the Hisense is at its best when watched directly from the front.

Like the Sony X93L/X93CL, the Hisense has only two HDMI 2.1 ports, one of which is the eARC port. Still, both ports can do up to 4k @ 144Hz, which allows it to take full advantage of the Xbox Series X and PS5 consoles and newer PC graphics cards. It has a good response time, resulting in generally clear motion, with minor blur in fast action. Its input lag is very low, although not quite as low as on the LG C2 OLED or Samsung S90C OLED, and it has a great selection of gaming features, including support for every variable refresh rate (VRR) technology. You can opt for its predecessor, the Hisense U8H, as both TVs are very similar. However, they're similar in price, and the newer U8K is a tad better than the U8H overall.

The best 4k 120Hz TV in the budget category we've tested is the TCL Q7/Q750G QLED. Despite its low price tag, it supports 4k @ 144Hz on its first HDMI input and 4k @ 120Hz on its second and offers a great array of gaming features with very low input lag. It can take full advantage of recent video game consoles or a recent PC GPU, including support for every variable refresh rate (VRR) to help reduce screen tearing. However, its response time performance varies quite a bit when VRR is enabled, so that's something to keep in mind.

It delivers great picture quality thanks to its excellent SDR peak brightness, fantastic 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. If you want something even brighter, you can instead go for the TCL QM8/QM850G QLED, one of the brightest TVs on the market. However, aside from brightness, the QM8 is similar to the Q7, and the Hisense U8K is a better buy than the TCL at that price point.