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.

  • Ov3rclock1ngcow@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    It’s absolutely hysterical. People are getting down, voted into oblivion in any other post for saying there seems to be a correlation between the BOE panels and dead pixels even though this entire post pretty much confirms, there is some form of correlation.

    • ich_hab_deine_Nase@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Yea, but now we have some data to prove it. It’s not scientific accurate, but the tendency is there. May help some people in the future making the decision on which model to purchase.

      • Ov3rclock1ngcow@alien.topBEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I tried to bring this up on another post and I got completely downvoted I really wish that a moderator would like pin this make a poll do something. I get accused of fear mongering when all I’m trying to do is make sure people are aware there could be a serious issue with BOE panels, having a higher yield of defects.