For years now, I’ve battled screen-tearing on my PC monitors, and my OLED TV. Even with high refresh rates, I’ve found the lack of sync between my devices and my displays to be a significant issue.
Testing the Lenovo Legion Pro 27UD-10 OLED Gaming Monitor for review, I’ve had my eyes opened to a world free of screen-tearing, and I don’t ever want to go back.
No more juddering text or line-by-line screen refresh for me, thanks. I’m full.
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Lenovo Legion Pro 27UD-10 OLED Gaming Monitor – Visual delivery
Using the Lenovo Legion Pro 27UD-10 alongside my new Lenovo Legion Tower 5i – a long-time-coming Black Friday purchase – I was impressed by the display’s speed and sleekness of visual delivery. I’ve been stomping through zombie adventure Dying Light: The Beast lately, and even with visuals turned to Ultra, this monitor delivered with zero fuss or fumble.
What’s particularly impressive is the monitor’s crispness. Text is sharp and well-defined, and you don’t need to fiddle with settings to ensure a beautiful contrast between colours, allowing for deep blacks and rich, vivid shades.
Even when you do fiddle, using finicky back button settings, you don’t need to make any massive changes. Out of the box, the Lenovo Legion Pro 27UD-10 delivers bright, measured colours that add depth and liveliness to game scenes.
In scenes of sunset or sunrise, the monitor performs particularly well, with colours emanating and glowing outward as you explore. If you’re looking to properly transport yourself into your next adventure, the true blacks and high contrasts possible will allow you to really lock in.
Travelling at night in Dying Light: The Beast, through streets occupied by zombies, the high contrast amped up the scares – which was good and bad, depending on which way you look at it.
Realistically, it allowed me to play the game as intended, being constantly surprised by zombies leaning out of the shadows.
As mentioned, the monitor has zero problems with quick-loading these visuals, whether in darker blacks or lush colours. A high 240Hz refresh rate with a 0.03ms response time means there’s no lag between gameplay loading and delivery, meaning no screen-tearing or egregious sync issues.
Support for AMD FreeSync Premium Pro and VESA Adaptive Sync no doubt aids this delivery.
It’s also worth noting that with support for multiple cables – HDMI 2.1, USBC-C, and DisplayPort 1.4 – you can add this monitor into your set-up, in any awaiting port. Given how un-generous modern computers are with their port arrays, it’s great to see so many options here.
While one or two cables would do the trick, having multiple options really helps device integration.
Lenovo Legion Pro 27UD-10 OLED Gaming Monitor – Overall look and design
Beyond its visual delivery, what is most striking elsewhere is the Lenovo Legion Pro 27UD-10’s overall look. This is definitely a monitor for gamers, recognisable by its funky hexagon foot. Whether you appreciate it or not will depend on personal taste (and I admit, it’s not quite for me).
The monitor’s foot takes up a lot of space on a desktop, and while it’s needed to hold up the monitor (and allow for vast hydraulic adjustments up and down, sideways, and tilting), it does feel like it takes up too much real estate. In my relatively small set-up, I had to remove a bunch of desk accessories to make it fit.
In a larger space – which you may very well have – it won’t be as much of an issue. But the size profile should be noted, as should its funky hexagonal shape, which will fit into a fresh, streamlined gaming set-up, but not one that aims to be understated.
In praise of the overall design, I will say the monitor was very easy to set up, and it feels sturdy thanks to heavy duty screws, and the thick monitor stand. If you want a monitor with a lower profile, you can push this monitor down, and there’s a great range for height, as well. You can also swivel the monitor up, down, and sideways, for the ideal adjustment to your set-up.
Sound is a major bugbear with the Lenovo Legion Pro 27UD-10 OLED Gaming Monitor
In my time with the Lenovo Legion Pro 27UD-10 monitor, my only major complaint was that it lacks in-built speakers. Personal preference, but I well prefer to play games with my monitor blasting sound.
Yes, that means I don’t get the deep bass or crisp tones that a dedicated speaker would deliver. But life is complicated enough as it is, and a monitor that can deliver sound without any fuss is a must for me.
The fewer cables I need to deal with, the better. So, the Lenovo Legion Pro 27UD-10 monitor lacking sound is a pretty big dealbreaker for me.
Overall verdict
Despite this frustration, I appreciated the Lenovo Legion Pro 27UD-10 monitor immensely. Any small foibles I had with it could be tempered with an appreciation for just how crisp its OLED display is, and how well it delivers gameplay visuals.
This is a bright, vivid monitor with an impressive colour range, and that all-important support for true black, that makes scenes absolutely pop. With a high refresh rate, you can play through games with minimal fuss, from screen-tearing to ghosting, allowing the monitor to be a real portal to other worlds.
The $1,499 price tag means it’ll be out of reach for many gamers – and there are reasonable competitors in the field which are cheaper – but given the experience the Lenovo Legion Pro 27UD-10 monitor offers, there is justification for this pricing.
Overall, this is a well-rounded, sturdy monitor that delivers on its promise of ultra-crisp, beautiful visuals.
Lenovo Legion Pro 27UD-10 OLED Gaming Monitor
Price: $1,499
Manufacturer: Lenovo
Release Year: 2025
A Lenovo Legion Pro 27UD-10 26.5-inch OLED Gaming Monitor was provided to ScreenHub on temporary loan for the purposes of this review.
