Today we will get acquainted with the 65-inch Neo QLED QN70F (QE65QN70FAU) – this year's update of the affordable model in the Samsung QLED TV line. In 2025, the "70th" model switched to Neo QLED technology - with Mini LED backlighting, which was previously only available in the more expensive segment.
Specifications of Samsung Neo QLED QN70F
| Diagonal | 65” |
| Backlight technology | Quantum Mini LED |
| Resolution | 3840×2160 |
| HDR technology | HDR 10, HDR 10+, HLG |
| Update frequency | 100 Hz (up to 144 Hz) |
| Sound output power | 20 W |
| User interface | Tizen Smart TV |
| Tuners | DVB-T2CS2, analog tuner |
| Wall mount | VESA 100×100 |
| Communications | Wired: 4× HDMI 2.1, 2× USB, Ethernet, optical audio output, CI Slot, antenna input. Wireless: WiFi 5 + Bluetooth 5.3 |
| Electricity consumption | 91 W (typical), 230 W (maximum) |
| Dimensions with stand, W × H × D | 145.2×89×27.9 cm |
| Weight of TV with stand | 21.8 kg |
| Official price in Ukraine | 50 thousand UAH. |
Design
Like last year's Q70D, the Neo QLED QN70F features an ultra-slim AirSlim design – arguably the thinnest non-OLED TV of its size, measuring just 1 to 2.5cm at its thickest point. This makes it very easy to mount on a wall (a 400x300 VESA mount is available).
The front of the TV has a traditional minimalist design, with almost no bezel on three sides of the screen. It stands on a compact stand in the center – this option instead of "legs" on the sides makes it easy to place the TV even on a small cabinet.
All connectors, except for the power, are located in a niche on the left side of the rear panel of the case. Here you can find 4 HDMI ports, two USB Type A (one of them with power, enough to connect external HDDs), a digital optical audio output, an Ethernet port and three antenna connectors (one for terrestrial/cable TV, two more for satellite).
Separately, next to the connectors, you can notice a sealed niche with a CI slot for conditional access cards – previously it was usually placed "in line" with the connectors, but considering how rarely someone might need it now, such a separation seems logical.
Remote control
The Samsung Neo QLED QN70F comes with the familiar SolarCell One Remote (model TM2360E), which we've seen on other TVs and Smart monitors from the company. It's a compact and slim remote with a typical set of controls and layout for a model of this size.
The SolarCell One Remote has a built-in microphone for voice control of the TV. Unfortunately, the proprietary voice assistant Bixby does not yet know the Ukrainian language, so you will have to control it in English.
The remote gets its name from the solar panel on the back of the case, which charges the built-in battery, and can also do so from room lighting. If you need to quickly recharge the remote, you can do so via the USB-C port.
Functionality
The "smart system" in Samsung TVs is traditionally its own Smart TV platform based on the Tizen OS with the One UI interface, which was introduced in the company's TVs and Smart monitors last year.
However, there are no fundamental differences from previous versions of Tizen, which we saw during testing of Samsung TVs in the past. The interface is also presented in the form of a compact sidebar with icon items: it can be "expanded" to see a text description of each item.
Here you can find search, sign in to your Samsung account, go to the home screen and a couple of additional sections. Daily+ is a selection of branded applications for daily tasks SmartThings, fitness trainer, etc., and "Art" is an art store Art Store with many world-famous paintings and other images that can be used as screensavers during inactivity.
If the TV is mounted on the wall, it allows you to turn the giant black rectangle into a spectacular painting or "photo frame" for your own photos: in essence, "Art" is the same Ambient mode that we saw in previous models, but now with a selection of over 3,500 world-famous works of art.
At the bottom of the home screen are the connected devices menu, privacy settings, and system settings — you can open them without leaving the current screen to the home menu using the gear button on the remote control. For convenient wireless connection of mobile devices, the TV supports Apple AirPlay, Google Cast, and Samsung SmartView protocols.
The Samsung Neo QLED QN70F has an updated NQ4 AI Gen2 processor. According to the manufacturer, it contains 20 neural networks, and compared to the NQ4 AI used in the 2025 QLED TV line, this processor has a 40% more productive CPU and 2 times the GPU.
The power of the NQ4 AI Gen2 is used, in particular, for AI-scaling content to 4K resolution, color optimization (Color Booster Pro technology), improving SDR content to HDR quality, increasing image depth by enhancing the contrast between the foreground and background (Real Depth Enhancer), optimizing the brightness of HDR images depending on the lighting in the room, etc.
The TV has a game mode with AI optimization of individual games, a game settings panel with frame rate adjustment, input lag, additional ultrawide formats and other parameters. The Neo QLED QN70F has an automatic low-latency mode (Auto Low Latency Mode, or ALLM), support for FreeSync Premium adaptive frequency technology and the ability to run games in 4K@144 Hz video mode with variable frequency.
If desired, you can watch local video content from USB drives: the built-in media player supports 4K video, H265 format, HDR video (HDR10, HDR10+ and HLG standards), and decodes audio tracks in Dolby Digital and DD+ formats.
Sound quality
The Neo QLED QN70F has a basic two-channel speaker system with a power of 20 W. Like previous Samsung TV models, the QN70F supports Q-Symphony technology, which allows you to combine a compatible soundbar and built-in speakers into a single speaker system and significantly improve sound quality.
However, even without a soundbar, the TV's sound is very good for a built-in speaker: there are high-quality high frequencies and very decent mids, but the situation with the "bass" is worse: in tests, the built-in speakers started to play much quieter already at frequencies around 80 Hz. We can conclude that for movie screenings it is still better to upgrade the sound system, but for watching YouTube, other streaming services or TV, the sound quality of the QN70F will be quite sufficient.
Among the sound enhancement technologies present in the Neo QLED QN70F, we can mention the OTS Lite surround sound, which creates a 3D audio effect with a virtual overhead channel, and the voice enhancement function, which improves the intelligibility of conversations, for example, in news broadcasts or talk shows.
Image quality
The Samsung Neo QLED QN70F (QE65QN70FAU) uses a 65-inch panel with 4K resolution and Quantum Mini LED backlighting. Such LEDs are tens of times smaller than conventional LEDs - because of this, they can be placed on the panel in much larger quantities, and they also do not have the disadvantages of organic LEDs, primarily their relatively low maximum brightness and the risk of "burning out" over time.
The manufacturer does not specify the type of panel, but judging by the appearance of the pixels in the macro shot, it is made using VA technology.
The screen is glossy, with a moderate anti-glare coating: reflections are still clearly visible, but compared to the complete absence of such a coating, they are still significantly weaker.
The QN70F is the youngest member of this year's Neo QLED TV lineup, so it's only natural that it's a bit behind the older, more advanced models in some ways. Yes, it uses Quantum Matrix Slim technology – this means that the Mini LED backlighting here is edge-lit, with LEDs located along the bottom edge of the screen.
This solution makes the TV not only more affordable for the buyer, but also more energy efficient compared to full backlighting, but theoretically it can affect brightness uniformity and contrast – which we will check a little later.
The comfortable viewing angles are very large, although smaller than in OLED TVs. At a large angle, the features of VA technology are manifested, first of all, a decrease in color saturation and an increase in brightness in dark areas of the image, which leads to the illumination of shadows. However, to really feel this, you need to look at the screen almost from the side; even during a group movie screening, viewers will not pay attention to this.
Without full backlighting, it is impossible to implement full local dimming, but even without it, the black background glow in the QN70F is very weak. The "Local Dimming" item in the expert settings actually changes the overall brightness and allows you to reduce the black glow so much that it becomes virtually absent when viewed directly and minimal when viewed from the side.
The white field uniformity test shows a typical picture for this type of backlighting: the brightest area is the center, the difference between it and the darkest (right part) is ~18%.
When playing video on the TV itself (both in streaming services and from a USB drive connected) and for players connected via HDMI, five video modes are available: "Dynamic", "Standard", "Eco", "Movie" and FILMMAKER MODE. The latter, like "Movie", is optimized for playing video content, but, as the name suggests, shows the film as the director intended, without any optimizations or AI algorithms.
If the content is received from a device defined as a PC, the system limits the choice of video modes to only two: "Entertainment" and "Graphics". However, if the computer is also planned to be used for watching movies, it is better to disagree with this definition and leave it simply as a video signal source: this will allow you to use cinema modes and get the optimal image during movie sessions.
In the expert settings, you can find the "Color space settings" item: here you can switch between full panel coverage ("Native" option) with bright and saturated colors and limited to the sRGB color space ("Custom" option) - the second has a more restrained color scheme.
Regarding the characteristics of computer video modes: the first, "Entertain", offers a bright and spectacular image, for example, for games, while the second, "Graphics" – is calmer and more suitable for everyday tasks. In the first for HDR content we managed to get a maximum brightness of 715 cd/m² - for a fairly budget model, which is the QN70F, this is a very good result.
The second mode turned out to be well calibrated, so if desired, this TV in conjunction with a PC can be used not only for games, but also for work. Thus, the "Graphics" mode has an ideal computer gamma of 2.2, the brightness in it is limited to ~200 cd/m² (standard value for office use), and the contrast is 2,600:1.
The color temperature is set by the manufacturer to the "Standard" value, in which it is significantly overestimated - so we would recommend switching the corresponding parameter to "Temp.2": in this case it is reduced to 6500K, which perfectly corresponds to the standard value. We note here that this is the option used in both movie modes.
Even its color accuracy is quite high, especially considering that this is not a desktop monitor, but an entertainment TV: for the "User" color space, its average ΔE value is less than two, the maximum is 4.5 (the only color that stands out from the overall picture is due to the operation of the test colorimeter), in "Local" the indicators are slightly lower, but not fundamentally: the average ΔE is slightly over two, the maximum is three.
You can compare video modes in the following gallery.
From left to right: “Dynamic”, “Standard”, “Eco”, “Film”, FILMMAKER MODE, “Entertain”, “Graphics”
When game mode is activated, the maximum brightness rises to 650 cd/m², the contrast to 2,700:1. The image becomes bright, saturated and very effective - ideal for games.