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.

  • jo_mo_mo@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    There is no evidence that BOE or Samsung panels differ in any meaningful way. Just check your panel for issues, who cares what manufacturer made your panel if everything is fine with it.

    • ich_hab_deine_Nase@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Following the comments here, it looks like that BOE panels indeed are more often affected by dead pixels. Of course it’s not representative, but some tendencies are definitely there.

    • Yakushika@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’d say the evidence is right here in this thread. As far as I can see, nobody with a Samsung panels reported dead pixels so far. Meanwhile, I’d estimate a good 30% or so of people in this thread with BOE panels did.