Left is BOE, right is presumably Samsung
Samsung panel photo taken from here:
My LE Deck OLED has BOE screen which I confirmed through that firmware dump command. I don’t have any dead pixels or any issue with the screen, but I think this difference in su-pixel structure is VERY interesting.
There’s been some complaint about red/green fringes on text, but not everyone seems to see it equally well. I looked at mine, Even looking very closely to the point Im seeing individual pixels and the small gaps between the pixels, I just don’t see it.
If we zoom in and look at the text, this is in desktop mode in Chrome, we can see there is in fact no sub-pixel anti-aliasing, the font is made up of whole pixels.
BTW I think BOE layout is better than Samsung because every pixel is symmetrical and the gaps are evenly distributed. Where as the Samsung has alternating left/right leaning blue pixels, which creates a big gap every two pixels, and this can lead to a slightly more grainy look.
You can also see the slight blurring effect from the anti-glare screen I have on mine. The blur radius is smaller than these sub-pixels, it cannot reduce the sharpness of displayed images, but it can soften the appearance of individual pixels.
Eh, I don’t know if I’d go that far (uh, for me anyway, cant speak to others). The color fringing was the first thing I noticed when I got the “You got one of the first OLED” firmware update screen. But I’ll also admit notice and am bothered by those sorts of things than a lot of people (same with frame tearing, absolutely cant stand it).
That being said, that firmware update screen was one of the only times I’ve seen pure white text on a pure black background. Almost any other situation in SteamOS, or in the majority of games I’ve tried out, its not straight white on black, so I legit have not noticed it since.
But its definitely there.