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.
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Do you guys have anything better to do than to worry about pixel structure?
Don’t they usually have more blue pixel due to that pixel dieing first on a oled panel?
Please, zoom it to the level of individual photons.
Electron microscopes will be out next determining where the sand came from on each screen.
Anyone started testing the plastic polymer chain to see if they differ?
Correct me if I’m wrong here. As a fan of Samsung products I feel the BOE pixel layout looks better and more… together?.. vs the Samsung. I feel like it would make a better and shaper image because the pixels are much more uniform on the BOE vs the Samsung?
This is the observation I came away with having both of them side by side. I know my opinion is subjective and I have a small sample size of one of each panel but I was pleasantly surprised seeing the uniformity and clarity of the BOE panel next to the Samsung.
yes and that seems to be the case.
Is the larger green sub pixel on the Samsung the reason why ppl are getting green in there blacks?
yall really pixel peeping
subpixel peeping
But to be honest. As a person who is quite curious, I love to learn about these small differences, since it reveals further questions about the manufacturing and implications of the difference. Playing and analyzing the Steamdeck is fun in itself. There is also something similar going on with other devices. Also its nice to have an curious, informed user group.
And here I am just using my Steam Deck and not being neurotic.
whats next? licking the screen?
Still not giving a shit what screen is in my OLED and just enjoying it.
BOE pixel structure looks superior to me.
Superior in image quality maybe.
Afaik samsung does this to help with oled degradation. So after a year or two the samsung should look better.
Thanks for those photos. I’m not sure which I’d consider ‘better’ so I’ll have to take your word for it. HOWEVER…please confirm that I’m not going crazy. I swear text in the SteamOS is much blurrier on my normal OLED Deck compared to the LCD version. Has anyone else had the same thought?
The software have to account for the sub-pixel layout especially when rendering text. This is what ClearType does in Windows. If Valve have yet to optimize for the OLED decks, it happens.
BOE(Best on Earth) panels are thought of the best panels on Arcade LCD and OLED games like Arcade 1up.
This is sick thanks for sharing