A drop-in low power OLED display upgrade for LCD model Steam Decks
DeckSight is a 1080P AMOLED display panel that drops into an LCD model Valve Steam Deck with no major modifications. DeckSight surpasses the stock LCD in almost every specification, making your games look sharper, more colorful, and with perfect black levels.
$130-140 for the screen
Display Technology: AMOLED
Size: 7” diagonal, 16:9 aspect (slightly shorter and wider than stock)
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (up from 1200 x 800)
Color Depth: 10-bit, 1.07 billion colors (up from 8-bit, 16.7 million colors)
Brightness: 800 nits
Surface Options:
Matte: Anti-glare and anti-fingerprint etched glass (similar to highest end stock LCD)
Gloss: Anti-fingerprint coating (similar to 64 and 256 GB LCD models)
Refresh Rate: 60 Hz (currently), may be improved in before release or with BIOS patch (likely 80-90 Hz)
Technically it's 1280x800 which is 720p but slightly taller. While saying it has an 800p display would technically be correct it doesn't provide context for the actual resolution of the display since it's only half of the full description of the resolution and there's no widely agreed upon "800p" resolution. 720p has a coded understanding for how sharp a display is among tech knowledgable people. 800p has no such history. So while saying the steam deck has a 720p display may not be technically correct its actually a much more useful descriptor as most people understand how sharp that display is going to be.
Technically this "1080p" display isn't even 1080p. Its 1920x1200 but it has the same pixel density as a similarly sized 1080p 16:9 display. So we say 1080. 4k is also not 4000 pixels. Its 3840x2160
Edit: Apparently the decksite is actually a 16:9 1080p display. I had assumed it kept the aspect ratio of the deck itself. It evidently does not.
That's stupid. It's not a console where settings are locked down. Sure, you probably can't run a new AAA high fidelity game at 1080p, nor could you run it at native at max settings. There are tons of games out there, new and old, that it can easily run at 1080p, especially if you tweek settings. You can always choose to render at a lower resolution than native too if you want.