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.
whats the point of this? is one better than others?
Supposedly, the BOE has been having more dead pixels reports than the Samsung. Which is kinda what I’ve been seeing here on Reddit but who knows. BOE is from what I understand also a reputable company and has been making screens for years so I’m not sure if it’s just a bad batch or what’s happening
No
Maybe. For people who’d like to avoid screens with low-frequency PWM dimming, there’s a possibility that the BOE screen is better (or worse!) than Samsung’s. Can someone please point their phone’s slo-mo cam at the LE version to see if there is visible flicker?
What, just on any game or screen? Or during specific settings or circumstances?
Apparently, this is what it looks like in-game with the non-limited OLED version. Of course it also depends on the phone cam.
I assume that it’s the same in the main UI, although the flicker is usually more noticeable when the screen shows bright content. So anything that isn’t a particularly dark game should do the trick.
I’ve made it a top-level question to avoid spamming the comments: https://old.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/182w6un/le_owners_hows_pwm_compared_to_the_lcd_deck/?