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.
Don’t fall into this. This is why posts like these are so annoying, lmao. You won’t notice nor care about any of these differences unless you end up with a BOE panel with a dead pixels and are examining the damn panels. Only the difference between LCD and OLED matters, and there’s a big one there.
I think you might be barking up the wrong tree if you don’t understand why this is interesting information for people, also it reduces consistency which is also a surprising change from the other Steam Decks.
Tech enthusiasts are all very curious about this stuff, and we like when this stuff comes around.
Also, some people *do* notice these things with sensitive eyes, and are unable to formulate into words what they’re seeing.