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.

  • baecracker@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Ironic that the LE is the version with the problematic and inferior BOE panels.

    ‘Limited’ indeed.

    *disclaimer: I purchased OLED LE.

    • Vasaeleth1@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Seems like it was a beta test for BOE panels since all of the other models are Samsung. It’s a bit disappointing that Valve wasn’t more transparent about the fact that it’s more of a “beta” version than a “limited” version.

    • Dark3nedDragon@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Bro it’s in the name, it was a limited run, limited as in they axed it after the quality assurance team took a look.

      !I bought one too, also have a dead green subpixel in top left corner like many others, visible on 16:9 unfortunately.!<

    • TheHumanConscience@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I just think someone at Vavle in marketing thought it would be a good idea to time this “themed” release with the new Half Life 1 refresh and convinced Gaben to do it. Vavle wouldn’t have been able to meet the demand at the “good” factory making the 512/1GB normal OLED models so they farmed out the manufacturing to someone else to handle the LE models as this LE plan was only only green lit a few months ago. This would also explain why you can still order the “Limited” edition model as they appear to be making them on order (after the initial lot was cleared out) and hence the 1-2 weeks timeframe (which is really 2 - 4 weeks since the first lot sold out).