Lenovo G25-10 review

Our Verdict

The Lenovo G25-ten delivers dainty styling forth with desirable capabilities for gamers on a budget — but its display quality leaves something to be desired.

For

• Affordable
• Attractive pattern
• Practiced gaming features

Against

• Mediocre image quality
• Limited port pick
• No built-in speakers

Tom's Guide Verdict

The Lenovo G25-ten delivers dainty styling along with desirable capabilities for gamers on a budget — merely its display quality leaves something to be desired.

Pros

• +

  Affordable

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  Attractive design

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  Good gaming features

Cons

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  Mediocre image quality

• -

  Limited port selection

• -

  No born speakers

Lenovo G25-10: Specs

Screen Size: 24.5 inches
Resolution: 1,920x1,080
Refresh Rate: 144 Hz
Inputs: DisplayPort, HDMI, 3.5 mm sound
Dimensions: xviii.8 by 22 by 9.2 inches

The Lenovo G25-10 is a gaming monitor aimed squarely at the low-upkeep, no-frills set. With a list price of $189.99 (though, due to the electric current country of materials shortages and supply chain difficulties, yous may be seeing it higher for a while), it comes in well below many other monitors designed for PC gamers, while nevertheless offering an adequate slate of features (144Hz refresh rate, 1ms response fourth dimension, back up for both AMD's FreeSync and Nvidia's Yard-Sync anti-fierce technologies) and general performance that audience will appreciate.

This isn't to say the G25-10 is a terrific monitor. Measuring 24.5 inches with a native resolution of one,920x1,080, some may find it distractingly small; the graphics lack sharpness and wait diddled out, even when the brightness isn't maxed; and the lack of ports and other expected conveniences could well frustrate someone shopping for a more robust display hub. Merely if y'all tin alive with all that, the G25-10 is a reasonable choice at a much-more-than-reasonable cost.

Lenovo G25-10 review: Pattern

The G25-10 distinguishes itself by its overall lack of distinguishing features. Measuring about eighteen.8 past 22 by 9.two inches with its stand up attached, information technology doesn't take up too much room on a desk, and its side and top bezels are similarly thin (two mm) and not distracting. The lesser bezel, measuring almost 0.8 inch is a different story, just it's also where the Power button and four operational buttons are housed (on the right side), so that's understandable. Weighing in at but eleven.2 pounds with its stand up (see below) attached, information technology'southward piece of cake to transport wherever you may want to set information technology upward.

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That stand, with its 2 angled feet, is likewise pretty typical, just effective and piece of cake to install: But screw the base of operations into the shaft and then click the whole matter into place on the back of the monitor, where a conveniently placed button makes undoing the installation a cinch. If you'd rather put the monitor on a wall, you can use the 100x100-millimeter VESA mounting holes. Stick with the stand, though, and yous have a good bargain of adaptability, as y'all tin raise or lower the screen as much as 4.3 inches and tilt it forward and backward up to 22 degrees. Fastened to the rear bottom of the stand is a handy cable-channeling prune that lets you lot keep your gaming area at least moderately tidy.

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Clean, also, are the rear-lesser ports where the cables connect to the monitor, with the power cable on the left and everything else on the correct. That "everything else," yet, includes but a 3.5mm headphone jack and ane each of DisplayPort and HDMI inputs—in that location's not even a unmarried USB Type-A port, and there are no congenital-in speakers, as y'all'll find on the equivalently priced Acer XFA240 (where you besides get a microphone jack and a DVI port as part of the package).

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These aren't enormous absences — many serious gamers won't need much more than DisplayPort and HDMI — simply this is a key area where Lenovo has pulled dorsum to keep the contour slim and the price downwards.

Lenovo G25-10 review: Screen

As with so much else with the G25-10, the performance of the screen is solidly good enough. Using a Klein colorimeter paired with DisplayCal software, the screen covered between 110% and 112% of the sRGB color gamut, and between 78% and 79% of the DCI-P3 gamut, in each of its seven default gaming modes, and its Delta-East rating (which measures the difference between the colour sent and the color displayed, with lower values always better) between 0.22 and 0.24. Higher-stop gaming monitors can display more of the sRGB gamut; our top-rated (and more expensive) Razer Raptor 27, hit 162% in our tests, for instance, which will result in more than colorful graphics and richer utility in more professional applications. Only for a lower-priced option, the G25-ten hits its marks in this area — it did marginally better than the Acer XFA240 (which covered merely 106.3% of the sRGB gamut).

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In terms of maximum effulgence, the G25-10 proved relatively better, averaging in a higher place 400 nits (as measured with Klein'south ChromaSurf software) across the whole screen in about of its presets. The exceptions were Racing (216 nits) and Game one and Game 2 (300 and 303 nits, respectively), but if yous don't need or want to go also into the weeds with way option, you won't take too many complaints—the screen is overall brighter than we saw with the Acer XFA240 (352 nits), Raptor 27 (295 nits) or the Dell 24 Monitor (284 nits).

Lenovo G25-10 review: Gaming performance

Specs-wise, the G25-10 ticks all the right boxes, with a loftier 144Hz refresh rate; a 1ms response time (when Extreme Style is activated); and support for AMD FreeSync Premium, the middle tier of performance for AMD's anti-tearing technology. (The monitor is as well Nvidia Thousand-Sync Uniform, meaning it uses FreeSync to reduce tearing with Nvidia video cards.) And in our testing, games across a variety of genres tended to play perfectly decently on the G25-10. There was just one problem: They didn't always look that slap-up.

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On a desktop estimator loaded with a high-end Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 video card, a system that's displayed spectacular images on other monitors, the G25-x'southward graphics appeared fuzzy around the edges and oddly distant and indistinct in multiple games. This was most evident where text and fine details were critical; the (many) words throughout Sid Meier'south Civilization VI: Gathering Storm could be hard to read, but this occurred in other titles with typefaces of all styles and sizes, and the chunky softness was common in Windows, too. Changing picture modes did non fix the issue.

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Nor did it help with a pervasive blown-out look that was near noticeable on the Windows taskbar, but washed out fifty-fifty darker images somewhat. Both Clay 5 and Assassin'due south Creed Valhalla gained a vague, staticky sheen that spanned presets to evangelize the impression of watching a 1950s TV broadcast.

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This could be addressed by lowering the brightness and adjusting the contrast, and then you could go some of the dial back, just the out-of-the-box quality was never particularly pleasant.

Lenovo G25-10 review: Interface

The on-screen brandish (OSD) of the G25-10 is blank-bones but constructive in getting you to the settings yous need, when y'all need them. Pressing the button to the left of the Power button opens the master System Data menu, from which you can scroll down (using the other buttons for navigation, with a legend below the window) to submenus for full general display settings (brightness, contrast, etc.), color, monitor settings (the language, transparency, and timeout of the OSD), game settings (including the monitor way and refresh charge per unit), and inputs. When the OSD isn't already active, y'all can use the other buttons to access (from left to right) the Game, Input, and Display settings menus.

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It'due south an easy, clean navigational scheme, though the icon for exiting up to the previous bill of fare (or leaving the OSD entirely) — a circumvolve with a rightward-pointing arrow — may not brand its function immediately obvious. If in that location's any unmarried weakness here, it'south accessing the main menu itself: The Power button is about 1 and a 3rd times wider than all the other buttons, making it piece of cake to striking accidentally when you're trying to printing the Carte button (something I did, um, a lot). But otherwise, the uncomplicated interface for the monitor'south elementary offerings is a sensible way to go.

Lenovo G25-10 review: Verdict

The Lenovo G25-10 is platonic merely for a specific blazon of gamer: the kind who doesn't need (or mayhap desire) a large screen and is happy with tried-and-truthful 1080p if it doesn't mean draining their bank business relationship. This doesn't mean giving up much that makes gaming monitors, well, gaming monitors, such as a 144Hz refresh rate and anti-vehement support, so a limited port option and lack of speakers aren't huge sacrifices. The iffy image quality may be a tougher call — if you're not going to become pristine visuals for this price, they could still probably look a petty better.

Coming in for about the aforementioned money, with comparable brightness and color quality and a few additional features, the Acer XFA240 remains a slightly better purchase in this cost range. But with its sleeker blueprint and otherwise appropriate specs, the G25-x suffices as a no-nonsense choice for getting the gaming capabilities you want — if non much in the mode of sparkling extras.

Matthew Murray is the head of testing for Hereafter, coordinating and conducting product testing at Tom'south Guide and other Future publications. He has previously covered technology and performance arts for multiple publications, edited numerous books, and worked as a theatre critic for more than xvi years.

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