Three A+++ Dryers, Only One With a Published Price

Three of the five heat-pump tumble dryers in our database earn the top legacy energy class, A+++. Only one of the five publishes a price. Those two facts sit next to each other awkwardly: the category is honest and specific about efficiency, then goes almost silent on what the machine actually costs. If you are shopping heat-pump dryers this year, the label will tell you plenty about running cost and almost nothing about the checkout price.

Key takeaways:

• 3 of the 5 heat-pump dryers we track (Bosch Series 6 WQH246D9GB, LG FDV909W, Samsung DV90T5240AW) are rated A+++; AEG’s 8000 TR818P4B sits one tier lower at A++, and Miele’s T1 TWD 360 WP does not disclose an energy class at all.
• Among the three A+++ dryers, noise still spans 59 to 63 decibels, a 4-decibel gap between the quietest (Bosch) and loudest (Samsung) despite an identical top label.
• The AEG, the only A++ machine in the set, is also the loudest overall at 66 decibels, a pattern worth noting across 5 machines but not proof of a causal rule.
• Only 2 of the 5 dryers disclose a warranty at all: Bosch at 5 years, LG at 10, a 2x gap between the two brands that bother to state one.
• Only 1 of the 5, the Samsung DV90T5240AW at 547.00 EUR, publishes a price. The other four require a direct request to a retailer.

What do the five heat-pump dryers we track actually show?

All five machines in our current tumble-dryer set use heat-pump technology rather than older condenser or vented designs, so this comparison holds the drying method constant and lets the other fields do the talking. Capacity is tight across the group, 8 to 9 kilograms, so it is not the variable driving the differences below. Energy class, noise, warranty and price are.

Model	Type	Energy class	Capacity (kg)	Noise (dB)	Warranty (yr)	Price (EUR)
Bosch Series 6 WQH246D9GB	Heat-pump	A+++	9	59	5	N/A
LG FDV909W	Heat-pump	A+++	9	62	10	N/A
Samsung DV90T5240AW	Heat-pump	A+++	9	63	N/A	547.00
AEG 8000 TR818P4B	Heat-pump	A++	8	66	N/A	N/A
Miele T1 TWD 360 WP 8kg	Heat-pump	N/A (not disclosed)	8	N/A	N/A	N/A

Read across a row and the gaps in each column tell their own story. No single dryer in our set discloses all five fields at once. The Samsung is the only one with a price. The Bosch and LG are the only two with a stated warranty. The Miele does not disclose an energy class or a noise figure in our data at all, even though it is built on the same heat-pump principle as the rest.

Why are tumble dryers still rated on the old A+++ scale?

Washing machines, refrigerators, dishwashers and televisions all moved to the EU’s rescaled A-G energy label between 2019 and 2021, tightening the top classes so a machine that used to say A+++ now typically lands around B or C on the new scale. Tumble dryers never made that jump. The category is still governed by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 392/2012 on energy labelling and Commission Regulation (EU) No 932/2012 on ecodesign requirements, both of which predate the newer letter scale and were not folded into the later rescaling round.

That means A+++ still functions as the practical ceiling for a dryer today, the same way it did for washing machines before 2021. It is a real, meaningful top tier within this one category, but it is not directly comparable to an A-rated washing machine or an A-rated fridge purchased the same afternoon. A dryer’s letter only means something next to another dryer’s letter.

Does the same top energy label mean the same real-world dryer?

Not entirely, and the noise column in our table is the clearest example. The Bosch Series 6 WQH246D9GB, the LG FDV909W and the Samsung DV90T5240AW all carry the identical A+++ label, yet they run at 59, 62 and 63 decibels respectively. That is a 4-decibel spread inside one energy class, and decibels are a logarithmic scale, so the gap between the quietest and loudest A+++ machine here is genuinely audible in a laundry room next to a living space, not a rounding difference.

The AEG 8000 TR818P4B, the only dryer in the set rated one tier lower at A++, is also the loudest of all five at 66 decibels. That lines up with an intuitive story, that a less efficient heat pump and compressor cycle tends to run louder, but five data points is not enough to call it a proven rule. It is an observation worth flagging to a shopper, not a formula to build a purchase decision on by itself.

How much warranty information do dryer brands actually publish?

Very little, and what is published is inconsistent. Only 2 of the 5 heat-pump dryers in our database state a warranty figure at all. The Bosch Series 6 WQH246D9GB lists 5 years. The LG FDV909W lists 10 years, twice as long. Our data does not specify whether that LG figure covers the whole appliance or a single component such as the motor, so treat it as a plain 10-year headline number rather than assume it works the same way a motor-only warranty does on other appliance types. The Samsung, AEG and Miele dryers in this set disclose no warranty figure at all in our data.

A 2x gap between the two brands willing to publish a number, and three brands that publish none, is not enough information to rank these five machines on long-term backing. It is enough to tell a shopper that warranty length is worth asking about directly before buying, since the spec sheet alone will not answer it for three of the five options here.

Why is dryer pricing so hard to find?

Of the five heat-pump dryers we track, only the Samsung DV90T5240AW publishes a price, 547.00 EUR. The Bosch, LG, AEG and Miele models in our database show no manufacturer-listed price at all. That is a transparency gap specific to how this category discloses data, not a claim that those four dryers are unusually expensive, discontinued, or hard to buy. A shopper weighing any of them will need to request current pricing directly from a retailer rather than expect to find it published alongside the spec sheet.

This is worth remembering when a single published price sits next to four blanks: 547.00 EUR for the Samsung is a real, citable figure, but it should not be read as a stand-in for what the other four A+++ or A++ dryers in this set cost. Price is simply the thinnest field in the entire category right now.

The actual buying decision

If quiet operation matters more to you than a few extra years of stated warranty, the Bosch Series 6 WQH246D9GB’s 59 decibels is the standout in this set, still carrying the A+++ label and a published 5-year warranty. If a longer stated warranty matters more, the LG FDV909W’s 10 years is the longest figure any of the five discloses, at the cost of running 3 decibels louder than the Bosch. The AEG 8000 TR818P4B, one tier down at A++ and the loudest of the five, is worth a closer look only if its unpublished price turns out to be meaningfully lower once you ask a retailer directly.

Weighing two of these dryers side by side is easiest on our tumble dryers category page or head-to-head in the compare tool, where you can line up energy class, noise and capacity together. Given how thin the price data is across this category, plan to request a current quote directly from a retailer for any of the four models here that do not yet show one.