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.

  • BodookenBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    512gb Samsung OLED no dead pixels, but i hate this green outline on white texts

  • JBB1984BEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    512 OLED - Samsung

    Thoroughly checked for dead pixels using the pixel test website. No dead pixels.

  • Swirly_EyesBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I’ve got 512GB OLED with a Samsung panel. No dead pixels on mine.

  • Mast3rBait3rProBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I’m just gonna say it really doesn’t matter and I’d literally anything happened regardless you can just rma it.

  • laytonoidBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    LE BOE. Seems to be good so far for me.

  • esg666BEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I haven’t found any dead pixels on mine so far. I have an LE model with a BOE panel

  • Tricky-Knowledge-474BEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Ohhh shit, I just found out I have the BOE Oled panel, and while doing that funny thing also found out I have a dead pixel haha. I was able to tell because I was on reddit on desktop mode and while reading this post saw a super tiny dot all the way to the right about an inch from the trackpad. BUT for me this is way to small to really care about, I can’t notice it unless I really focus on it.

    Can this dead pixel affect anything else, maybe the oled panel will eventually get worse ? Because if not, I will keep my Oled LE the way it is because IM A HAPPY PERSON WITH IT 🫣

  • AntiOriginalUsernameBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Personally I think this is looking for problems. bOE of Samsung idc I’m just glad I have one with no dead pixels.

  • fedfed1234BEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    LE/BOE here, no dead pixels. It seems like a panel lottery for people with BOE. As for the Samsung panels, it seems like everyone has a perfect panels lol

    • Vasaeleth1BEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I’ve seen one or two reports of dead pixels on Samsung panels, but not to the extent of the BOE panels.