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.

  • SidewaysGateBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    IMO pull the trigger. If you’re comfortable replacing the panel yourself, then the two week period doesn’t matter. The OLED deck despite its issues (and I’m one of the multiple dead pixel folks), feels great to use. The screen is a gamechanger, but even more so for me the trackpad responsiveness combined with that 90hz makes the device feel more fluid and capable as I’m going between games. I actually use desktop mode, so this matters a lot to me.