Okay friends, let’s check who has a Samsung OLED panel, and who has the BOE OLED panel inside his Deck.

Steps to check:

  1. Go to Desktop mode

  2. Open Konsole

  3. Paste the following command into the terminal:

cat /sys/class/drm/card0-eDP-1/edid | hexdump -C

You will get the output like in this screenshot:

https://imgur.com/a/Y1jdjmr

The marked number is relevant and means the following:

01: 800x1280 @59.998545 (BOE, LCD)

02: No longer present

03: 800x1280 @90.003892 (Samsung, OLED)

04: 800x1280 @90.061454 (BOE, OLED)

So my results are:

Model: Steam Deck 512GB OLED

Panel: Samsung OLED

What’s yours? Please also don’t forget to post the model, so we can analyze if there’s some correlation.

    • ich_hab_deine_Nase
      OPBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It looks like so far, there were more dead pixel issues reported with BOE panels, which seem to be more common on the LE Deck.

      • Malt129BEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Fuck me. BOE stole orders from Samsung (who are now suing them) and couldn’t even do the job properly

    • DampfDeckerBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Besides the dead pixel theory, I am also very curious if there is a difference in the OLED PWM dimming frequency.

      Can people with LE also see flicker on the screen (at full or reduced brightness) when using their phone’s slo-mo cam? I know the non-LE flicker is visible from ThePhawx’ video.

    • JackSpadesSIBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Exactly. Spell out for me how and when I should be angry. I will then let the answer define me as a person.