Okay friends, let’s check who has a Samsung OLED panel, and who has the BOE OLED panel inside his Deck.
Steps to check:
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Go to Desktop mode
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Open Konsole
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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:
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.
2 questions. Aside from dead pixels are they the same picture quality? And the 2nd is that if yours doesn’t have dead pixels will potentially get them later/soon?
Picture quality will be the same, and honestly, the people acting like Samsung is inherently the “better” of the two options is hilarious considering Samsung doesn’t exactly have a good track record for OLEDs. Their ghosting on the Galaxy S8 series was atrocious. It’s been quite ironic reading this thread on a Samsung PC monitor with a stuck red pixel on it though. Stuck and/or dead pixels happen to every brand and every type of LED display, and so many people here are overreacting to it big time.
Just got a dead pixel on my new Corsair Xeneon 240 Oled, luckily they have a warranty for that but ya its crazy.