Searching for the best gaming TV to pair with your console requires a bit of thought. You need to consider your budget, firstly, and then figure out which TV will give you the best image quality for the room it's placed in, and whether it comes with specific gaming features.
For example, both the PS5 and Xbox Series X are designed with HDMI 2.1 connectivity in mind, meaning you’ll need a TV that supports this standard via its HDMI ports to experience the full capabilities of either console. While some TVs with the older HDMI 2.0 standard will offer gaming support features such as variable refresh rates (VRR) and auto-low latency mode (ALLM), the newer HDMI 2.1 is unique in being able to offer crucial support for 4K resolution at greater frame rates. This is because HDMI 2.1 has a higher maximum bandwidth (48Gbps) compared to HDMI 2.0 (18Gbps).
Here at TechRadar, when we're reviewing the best TVs, we also test their gaming credentials to see which ones make for great gaming TVs as well as great options for everyday TV and movie viewing. We measure input lag, for example, where a lower figure is better as it means there's less of a delay between you pressing a button on your controller and what you see on your screen. Input lag of under 15ms is great, and under 10ms provides the best results.
The quick list
Below you can find our top choices for the best gaming TV in Australia right now along with our summarised opinion. You can jump to a more detailed review of each pick, and compare prices for each to help ensure you find the best deals.
The best gaming TV overall
Offering the full suite of gaming features, four HDMI 2.1 ports and great levels of brightness, the Samsung S90C is a well-priced gaming TV that will suit most people.
The best budget gaming TV
Dolby Vision gaming, 4K 120Hz (up to 144Hz) refresh rate, VRR and ALLM - the U7N has them all without breaking the bank. It's also available in the UK, but not as good value.
The best gaming TV for PS5
This a beautiful (though not super-bright) OLED with 'Perfect for PS5' tech, including 4K 120Hz and VRR support, plus a special HDR mode for PS5 unique to Sony TVs.
The best TV for lighter rooms
If you do your gaming during the day in a bright room, this Samsung screen is ideal, being capable of going brighter than the other TVs on this list.
The best gaming TV for size options
The LG C4 has every gaming feature imaginable, and comes in more sizes than any other TV here, from 42 inches to 83 inches. It's less bright than the Samsung QN90C, though.
The best budget OLED
The LG B3 is one of the cheapest OLED TVs you can currently buy, yet still offers the full spectrum of gaming features, including 4K 120Hz support. It's not as bright as other LG OLEDs, and you only get two HDMI 2.1 ports, but for great performance to value ratio, it's a solid choice.
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Best OLED for brightness
The S95D continues to push the boundaries of brightness levels achievable by TVs. Thanks to its QD-OLED, anti-reflection technologies and suite of gaming features, this is hands down one of the best OLED TVs for gaming money can currently buy.
The best elite gaming TV for PS5
PS5-centric features inside one of the most sophisticated and stunning mini-LED TVs we've seen, with OLED-like contrast and stunning brightness. But it comes at a price.
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The best gaming TV overall
The Samsung S90C continues to be our pick for the best gaming TV for most people. We expect it to be replaced by the newer S90D, but we have to wait until our full review is in of that model until we can formulate a final decision. In the meantime, the Samsung S90C is a fine choice because it packs in just about every gaming feature you could need, with a next-gen OLED screen that's brighter than its 2023 peers including the LG C3 or Sony A80L (both lower in this list). What we particularly love however is that it manages to do all it does, for a very similar price to those TVs – and can now be found for less. You'll want to hurry if you want to grab one for yourself though, as stock levels are slowly but surely depleting.
When it comes to gaming features, all four HDMI ports support 2.1, meaning no matter which one you plug your next-gen console into, you'll get up to 4K 120Hz gaming. If you want to plug in a PC, you'll have support for up to 144Hz refresh. The S90C also has dedicated gaming menus which allow you tweak how responsive it is and which features you want to use, which is great for tinkerers. We measured input lag at under 10ms, so it's as responsive as TVs get.
The Samsung screen isn't alone in offering that though, as many other tellies on this list also exhibit acceptably-low levels. What gives the S90C this top spot is how bright it can go. Thanks to its QD-OLED screen technology, it's about 30% brighter than the LG C3, which is quite frankly staggering and makes a major difference during gaming sessions. And it shouldn't need saying, but this makes a major difference when watching TV or movies, too.
Unfortunately, Samsung continues to not support Dolby Vision, so there's no gaming support when an Xbox Series X is plugged in. There's also no G-Sync for PC gaming, and that it only comes in three sizes (but as we said, stock levels are on their way out). But we think that for the majority of people who aren't bothered by any of those, it's the best choice today.
Read the full Samsung S90C review
The best gaming TV for PS5
Sony's mid-range OLED TV may not have a screen that's quite as advanced the likes S90D above, but it does still benefit from Sony's best image processing and – above all – gaming features.
You've got 4K 120Hz and VRR support, although only over two of the four HDMI 2.1 ports. We measured latency of 16.5ms, which is far from the best on this list. This might not be reading like a glowing review, so why have we picked the A80L? Well, it's part of Sony's Perfect for PS5 TV line-up, which means it includes Auto HDR Tone Mapping support when the console is plugged in. This means the PS5 adjusts its HDR output to match the exact capabilities of the screen, so you always get the best-looking image. Pretty clever.
It's list of useful gaming features isn't the only reason we gave it a spot on this list, either. As an everyday TV, it has much to love. We were very impressed with the image quality in our tests, going as far to say in our review: "The Sony A80L might not benefit from next-gen OLED technologies and brightness, but its stellar appreciation for the finer things in AV life means it’s still hard to resist". That includes not just picture quality, but also the sound. Sony's Acoustic Surface tech, which uses the screen itself to transmit sound, is very impressive, and means you may be able to avoid getting a soundbar.
It doesn't go as bright as Samsung S90C, or the mini-LED TVs here, but it does offer an infinite contrast ratio – it's capable of 'true blacks', by which we mean we measured it at 0 nits when it was supposed to show blackness. Absolutely nothing. That's very impressive, and makes it great for atmospheric games or movies in HDR.
If you've got a PS5 in particular and want an OLED that gets that absolute best out of it without paying a super-premium price, this is an excellent choice.
Read the full Sony A80L review
The best budget gaming TV
The Hisense U7N's stacked suite of gaming features is ideal for PS5 and Xbox Series X owners and it has a great quality mini-LED picture, all for significantly less than the other TVs on this list.
With 4K 120Hz (with 144Hz option), Dolby Vision gaming, VRR including AMD FreeSync Premium and Nvidia G-sync, ALLM and a Game Bar menu, the U7N has a near-complete list of gaming features you'd expect to find on more premium gaming TVs.
The U7N's picture has bright, bold colours but with no sacrifice of contrast and black levels, which is an impressive accomplishment for a budget mini-LED TV. Textures and details are refined and accurate, giving the picture plenty of depth. The U7N suffers from some backlight blooming and its contrast fades when viewed off-axis, but overall the U7N's picture is great and adds an extra layer to gaming.
Sadly, the U7N's sound quality doesn't quite match its picture, but its directional sound, solid bass, and clear dialogue will suit a lot of games, as we discovered testing with Battlefield V. Ultimately though, its narrow soundstage means a soundbar may be required.
Bang for your buck is at the core of the U7N. With prices sitting roughly at $800 for a 65-inch screen size, it is hard to argue against the performance and features it delivers for the price.
Read our full Hisense U7N review
The best gaming TV for bright rooms
The QN90C is Samsung's one-from-the-top model in its 2023 range of premium mini-LED TVs. It still more than holds its own in 2024, however, thanks to a seriously bright screen complete with anti-reflection coating, allowing you to continue gaming for longer even when light spills in through the windows.
Gamers will also love its low lag, generous selection of size options and all four HDMI inputs supporting the 2.1 standard. All the other major buzzwords are accounted for as well, including ALLM, VRR and 4K 120Hz. AMD FreeSync Premium Pro is also supported.
As with all Samsung TVs, there's no Dolby Vision here, which also means no Dolby Vision gaming, but we feel its retina-searing brightness, solid motion tracking and accurate colour output more than make up for it. And of course, these features make it a great TV to use away from gaming as well, ensuring you only need to buy one and buy right when deciding on a new TV for your main room.
You can get even more brightness from the Samsung QN95C, but in fewer sizes – if you want to beat reflections even in smaller sizes, this is the TV to get.
Read the full Samsung QN90C review
The best gaming TV for size options
The LG C4 is an excellent all-around TV for gaming, movies, and just about anything else. It has a new Brightness Booster feature that lets it effectively compete with the Samsung S90C sitting at the top of our list as best overall gaming TV, though that model remains our top choice owing to its mix of performance and features and currently lower price.
Brightness Booster on the LG C4 is made possible by a new Alpha 9 AI Processor 4K Gen7 processor that also improves audio from the TV’s built-in 2.2-channel speakers with virtual 9.1.2-channel upmixing. The Dolby Vision, HDR10, and HLG HDR formats are all supported, and there’s a new Dolby Vision Filmmaker Mode preset that gives you an accurate Dolby Vision HDR picture without having to muck with picture settings and menus.
LG’s 2024 TVs including the C4 are the first models to be 144Hz-certified by Nvidia, which is great news for PC gamers. Xbox Series X and PS5 console owners will appreciate the C4’s four HDMI 2.1 ports with 4K 120Hz support, along with VRR, and ALLM. Cloud gaming is also well represented on the LG C4, with GeForce Now, Amazon Luna, Utomik, Blacknut, and Boosteroid apps available in the Games Quick Card on the TV’s webOS 24 smart interface.
While the LG C4 is both sufficiently bright and has an anti-reflection screen for daytime viewing and gameplay, the Samsung QN90C mini-LED TV sitting one step up on this list provides an even brighter picture, and it’s available in the same wide range of screen sizes as LG’s C4 OLED.
Read the full LG C4 review
The best budget OLED gaming TV
If you want the perfect contrast and rapid response times of OLED, but for a lower price than the LG C3 or Samsung S90C, this is your option. You're getting a lower-brightness screen than either of those, and two HDMI 2.1 ports instead of four – but all the essentials are here.
OLED's famous contrast still looks excellent, and there's support for 4K 120Hz gaming with VRR using the regular HDMI kind (for the PS5 or Xbox), AMD FreeSync (for PCs or Xbox), or Nvidia G-Sync. LG's gaming menu makes it easy to tweak settings as needed to and you can even choose a preset depending on game genre.
Response time is very low at 9.2ms with Boost turned on, and it'll auto switch to gaming mode when it detects you've fired up a console.
For movies and TV, it's great there too – it has a less advanced image processor than the C3, but it's still great for a mid-range TV. Vivid colors, deep black levels and excellent motion handling make the B3 a winner when it comes to picture quality. The audio isn't that impressive, but we can live with that, especially if using a gaming headset.
With reductions happening all the time, as expected from LG, the B3 is now priced very competitively against the LG C3, offering very similar performance and features for a cheaper price.
Read our full LG B3 review
The best gaming TV for brightness
Thanks to new anti-reflection tech, the Samsung S95D drastically reduces reflections in bright viewing environments, meaning you can get QD-OLED quality picture during any daytime gaming. Black levels and colors are still rich even in the brightest of rooms, giving you the best possible graphics available.
In terms of gaming features, the S95D is stacked. Four HDMI 2.1 ports carry 144Hz refresh rate, VRR including FreeSync Premium Pro, ALLM and HGiG support. There's also the Game hub for any cloud gaming services from Luna, Xbox and more, which serves as a handy tool for gamers.
Gaming performance is also a highlight of the S95D, with a super low 8.9ms input lag time (sub 15ms is considered professional). It's effortlessly smooth and free-flowing gameplay, even in the most graphically intense moments. The S94D's built-in audio is also impressive enough, particularly with object tracking, to complete the overall gaming experience.
The S95D does come at a premium price that some may find too rich, but for those who can stretch their budgets, it's a premium OLED option that is ideal for those with a bright gaming environment.
Read our full Samsung S95D review
The best elite gaming TV for PS5
The Sony Bravia 9 uses Sony's XR Backlight Master Drive with High Peak Luminance, which is a new twist on mini-LED tech that encompasses custom 22-bit LED drivers to offer significantly more refined local dimming, meaning best-in-class contrast for a mini-LED, and it's a fantastic improvement to pictures for both movies and gaming.
The Bravia 9 features PS5-exclusive features including Auto HDR Tone Mapping and Auto Genre Picture Mode when it detects a PS5, displaying the best picture possible. It also comes with 4K 120Hz, VRR (including Nvidia GSync but sadly not AMD FreeSync), Dolby Vision gaming and a Game Bar to make easy settings adjustments while gaming. While we did measure a higher-than-expected 17ms input lag time (most premium sets around this price have been sub-10ms), combining the Bravia 9's features with its picture quality makes for an excellent gaming experience as long as you're not a literal pro gamer.
Speaking of picture quality, the Bravia 9's is simply stunning. The sophisticated mini-LED tech means OLED-level blacks with rich contrast and exceptional brightness - 2,280 nits in standard mode in fact - that will be perfect for daytime viewing. Crucially, there's also little-to-no light bleed in high contrast images, something that is a regular issue for other mini-LED TVs.
In terms of built-in audio quality, the Bravia 9 follows in a long line of Sony sets that prioritize sound as well as picture. Acoustic Multi Audio+ creates an excellent sense of space and immersion and Voice Zoom 3 boosts dialogue levels during intense scenes. There's also even more unlocked when the Bravia 9 is paired with a Sony soundbar, including Acosutic Center Sync (using the Bravia 9's speakers as a bonus center channel) and 360 spatial audio mapping (creating phantom speakers for even more sound).
The Bravia 9 is undoubtedly pricey and is available in more limited sizes in the UK (75 and 85-inch only) but for those looking to go big with their gaming (especially PS5 owners), this is one of the best premium options you can get.
Read our full Sony Bravia 9 review
Best gaming TVs: FAQs
What makes a quality gaming TV?
If you’re seeing terms like Variable Refresh Rates, Auto Low Latency Mode and HDMI 2.1, you’d be forgiven for wondering just what it all means. So to help you better understand what it is and why it matters when selecting a gaming TV, we’ve defined the relevant terms for you below:
Frames per second (FPS):
Video as a technology works through the capture and display of still images at various rates per second, with frame rates, or FPS, a measure of how many times the image is updated each second on screen. As a general rule, the greater the FPS, the smoother a game will play. But not every TV is able to match the FPS your console or PC may be able to generate, making understanding them particularly important when it comes to gaming. It is also important to note that frame rates are not the same as refresh rates, which we’ll explore below.
Variable Refresh Rate (VRR):
Before the days of variable refresh rates, games were usually locked at a maximum of 60Hz - or the equivalent of 60 FPS. That not only hindered the performance capabilities of your gaming machine, which may well be powerful enough to reach much frame rates than 60, but it also meant the image itself might occasionally show glitches known as ‘tearing’ as the console and TV struggled to sync the signal.
VRR came first to the PC, where it’s known as G-Sync (Nvidia’s tech), or Adaptive Sync (an open standard which AMD also brands as ‘FreeSync). It allows the output of the console - which can vary immensely, often dipping down to below 60 FPS, and as high as a few hundred FPS - to be matched exactly by the TV. So - every single frame your console generates is displayed at that same moment on your TV, instead of being forced into 60 FPS on the TV, which results in the aforementioned glitching.
If your TV has VRR, it may well be marketed as AdaptiveSync, FreeSync, or even G-Sync. If you have any of these you’re good to go, and just need to make sure this feature is enabled on your TV’s menu (usually in Game Mode).
The end result is gaming that’s buttery smooth even during fast-paced movement, free of graphical glitches, and is much less likely to induce motion sickness.
Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM):
The moment you press a button on your pad, or turn the wheel of your sim car, or make any input - that signal has to travel from the controller to the TV, be processed by the TV, and translated to a response on-screen. That delay (which we call lag, or latency) is tiny - a few dozen milliseconds at most - but it’s enough to sometimes make you feel an odd disconnect with the game and what you’re doing.
ALLM solves that by automatically switching to a low-latency mode when gaming where the lag is reduced to an absolute minimum, making you feel more in control, and the gaming experience more natural.
The fancy name obscures what is actually just a feature indicating that your TV has the ability to recognise when it’s being asked to pair up with a gaming console and adapt its output to the demands of gaming and ensure best possible performance.
High Dynamic Range (HDR):
Believe it or not, there is a whole new world of colours and colour variations beyond the colours of the rainbow, with variations of white (light) and black (darkness) being relevant to video content including video games. HDR is simply an indication that a TV boasts the ability to display a wider range of colours and shades, allowing it to display your games at their best through clearer, more dynamic colours and brightnesses as well as deeper shadows.
The two most common HDR formats are either HDR10 or HDR10+, with HDR10+ considered to be the superior of the two as its name would suggest.
If your game supports HDR, and it will need to, then your HDR-capable TV will look absolutely gorgeous, with sunlight so bright you almost feel your eyes burn, and colours so rich and beautiful the game world becomes stunningly real.
HDMI 2.1:
HDMI is simply the designation for the connection technology responsible for transmitting from Point A (your console) to Point B (your TV), with this HDMI technology offering superior integration with VRR, ALLM and the frame rate demands of your favourite video games.
2.1 is the very latest HDMI standard, and it allows higher resolutions at higher frame rates, with HDMI 2.1 able to display a 4K picture at over 60Hz. HDMI 2.1 is a very new standard, and it’s only starting to appear on devices now. Much more common is the older HDMI 1.4a standard, which limits 4K gaming to just 30Hz (or FPS). So, getting a TV for gaming with HDMI 2.1 is an absolute must. Note you will need an HDMI 2.1 compatible cable for the magic to happen, and your console or PC must also be able to output a HDMI 2.1 signal.
Do I need an 8K gaming TV?
On paper, 8K sounds pretty good, and with the power of the latest games consoles surely they must demand the latest resolution technology, right? Not quite. While the PS5 and Xbox Series X do have compatibility support with 8K and the power to output 8K content built-in, neither demand this resolution. In fact, game developers themselves generally aren’t working with 8K resolution in mind.
By all means, in 3-4 years time we could be seeing games demanding 8K, but it’s very much a non-essential right now that you’d be paying more for unnecessarily.
How we test
Read the specs and marketing claims of TV makers and they often over promise on what the TV can really do. That's why we've extensively tested all of the best gaming TVs in this list to ensure they work well and deliver on their next-gen gaming specs.
What that means is we'll publish the official specs from the TV manufacturer, like the input lag or refresh rates on offer, then tell you ourselves whether the TV lived up to them in practice.
To do this, we tend to review TVs with a range of different content. Of course, next-gen gaming takes priority in this guide, but we imagine you'll also want to know what movies and TV shows are like to watch as well.
That means as well as testing for all of the key specs you need in a gaming TV, like refresh rates and HDMI connections, we're also looking for good picture quality, vibrant colours and viewing angles to suit all kinds of rooms.
Sound is less of a priority with most gaming TVs as you'll get the best experience from gaming headphones or a soundbar, but it's always good to know you'll get a decent built-in experience. Which is why we've also detailed what it was like to listen to these TVs without additional devices, too.
As we've reviewed many TVs over the years – and many of the best gaming TVs – all of our testing isn't done in isolation, but takes into account the performance and specs of every TV that's come before it.
You can read about how we test, review and rate any product on TechRadar if you'd like to know more.
