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.

  • Texas1010@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    How do you like the etched screen? My 512GB just arrived today and I’m going to open it up tonight. I really wanted more than just 512GB of storage and I’m not sure I feel like opening it up for an upgrade, but I was unsure of the etched screen this time around even though I really enjoyed my 512GB LCD SD.

    • ninjitsuko@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Glossy is fine, tbh. Etched isn’t a huge shift but you can tell that it diffuses all light/reflections. If you live in a house with a lot of natural light, the etched will make life easier. However, there’s really nothing wrong with glossy displays either.

      Some colors don’t pop as much on etched in some situations, mind you. But there’s still a considerable difference between the LCD Etched and OLED Etched.