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.
Please, zoom it to the level of individual photons.
As someone who wouldn’t tell the difference between either screen in person side by side, I’d rather have the reliability of the Samsung panel for better or worse.
The reason you don’t see sub-pixel anti-aliasing in Chrome or Firefox is because they apply their own rendering settings which is greyscale and you don’t have control over what they do.
Ungoogled Chromium will respect the system settings (I use it with anti-aliasing off) so you could set RGB or whatever subpixel arrangement (none is greyscale) in the display settings and then look in there… but what would be better would be simply to set it and then go back to gaming mode and look at how the text in the interface is rendered.
it’s the same thing in the task bar and desktop
Looks like I have BOE screen. Idc but it’s interesting to know the differences. My blue subpixel is hard to see. It’s white text so idk how it’s not shining blue that bright. The size of the subpixels is consistent and has even spacing.
Call me crazy but the blue sub pixel on the BOE panel looks larger than the red and green sub pixels. This should be good for longevity since you won’t have to drive the blue as hard, and blue sub pixels seem to be the most likely to burn out or limit the useful life of a panel.
Driving them less hard/bright = longer lifetimes
Yeah, that’s how it works. Everywhere
Y’all are doing all this for a 800p screen.
Interesting, thanks for the post. Given the differences in structure I am now more interested in what Samsung is claiming BOE infringed upon.
You know, a lot of people are hating on this, but I think just being able to see this kind of data is fun. I don’t really have the equipment to analyze this sort of stuff, so being able to see it like this is interesting. I have an OLED, and I have no interest in checking, but I love that there’s people who want to look into this and just have fun doing it.
Keep having fun, and always stay curious! Don’t let the hate here get to you.
Have a good one!
Yes!!! This is so cool!!@
My 1TB oled and my sanity just wanna thank you 😆
I wonder, will boe be on i fix it?
Is the larger green sub pixel on the Samsung the reason why ppl are getting green in there blacks?
Some of these boe posts made me wish I could have afforded to get it
whats next? licking the screen?
BOE pixel structure looks superior to me.
Thanks for those photos. I’m not sure which I’d consider ‘better’ so I’ll have to take your word for it. HOWEVER…please confirm that I’m not going crazy. I swear text in the SteamOS is much blurrier on my normal OLED Deck compared to the LCD version. Has anyone else had the same thought?
