Oled screen battery life expectancy ?

[kingdragonbg]

What do you guys think the battery life would be like if they added an oled screen and possibly maybe a 1% battery size increase in the deck? I know the battery can last 8 hours or 7 hours on left 4 dead 2 but was thinking what if they did oled would it last 10+ hours 15+ hours ? Super curious if they would also allow one to buy the oled screen if they make it and let us switch the lcd screen for it thoughs leave below

[Lruce_Bee]

The Deck is cutting edge and I actually think Valve made the right decision to drop an LCD screen into the device, mainly to cut down on costs and more importantly, possibly reduce the draw of power to keep an OLED screen going.
There's probably a bunch of tech science behind the inner workings and power consumption requirements for an OLED screen but I find it hard to believe that an OLED screen would use less power. I might be wrong.
The Steam Decks LCD screen, I think is actually superb. Crystal clear image at a really great resolution, at least to my eye.

I do wonder how much it would have bumped up the overall cost of using an OLED for the first incarnation of the deck but I'm fine with it.

I did hear that the next version of the deck will almost certainly have an OLED screen on board but I do wonder how much of an upgrade the battery would need to keep it at least on par with current battery drain. Anything less would be unacceptable I imagine.

[kingdragonbg]

Publicado originalmente por Lruce_Bee:

The Deck is cutting edge and I actually think Valve made the right decision to drop an LCD screen into the device, mainly to cut down on costs and more importantly, possibly reduce the draw of power to keep an OLED screen going.
There's probably a bunch of tech science behind the inner workings and power consumption requirements for an OLED screen but I find it hard to believe that an OLED screen would use less power. I might be wrong.
The Steam Decks LCD screen, I think is actually superb. Crystal clear image at a really great resolution, at least to my eye.

I do wonder how much it would have bumped up the overall cost of using an OLED for the first incarnation of the deck but I'm fine with it.

I did hear that the next version of the deck will almost certainly have an OLED screen on board but I do wonder how much of an upgrade the battery would need to keep it at least on par with current battery drain. Anything less would be unacceptable I imagine.

Well oled saves power with the whole black lights being off and using less power consumption thing so imagine games that are darker and have a lot dark areas I’d imagine it would help save battery by about 30 mins to an hour extra potentially but I could be so wrong however I do feel seeing as the oled switch went from 3 hours battery life to 5 hours battery life from most people’s test that the steam deck oled would have similar results in battery life again I could be wrong but feels like they could definitely had more power saved with it and yeah maybe it could cost a little more but I think that be better for more power especially seeing how the switch has been selling a lot of oled versions since it’s battery is way better

[Lruce_Bee]

Well, an OLED would bump the price up of a Steam Deck considerably, I'd imagine and Gabe, in an interview, stated that it was incredibly painful to get the Steam Deck down to that magic figure for all 3 variants of the Steam Deck, so there's consumer politics going on with the reasoning behind an LCD screen & leaving out the OLED for the first devices. Valve must have thought very long & very hard about these decisions.

Fact is, there aren't any handheld devices out there that come anywhere close to the steam decks specifications, performance, support & game availability & eco system at that price bracket. Valve have that sewn up tight, so there is absolutely no competition right now.

Future versions of the deck will be in research phase right now, I imagine & it wouldn't surprise me if Valve didn't have a version 2 deck up and running right now actually. Gabe stated that he was very surprised that the majority of decks pre-ordered was the 512GB version and that indicates that people are prepared to pay out good money for a premium device that does it all without compromise & the deck is certainly heading that way to be crowned the handheld device all others must match at a minimum.

So if Nintendo were thinking of making a Switch Pro, it's going to have to be something monumentally spectacular to come even close to what the Steam Deck is offering.

Gone are the days where you can sell hardware based on a couple of 1st party exclusives. That would be kinda retarded.

[darrenphillips666]

There’ll be Negligible difference in battery life
I’ve done a few Ryzen miniPC projects with 5.5” oled and 5.5” IPs lcd screen.
I’ve had power meters attached and there was barely a few fractions of watts between them when in use.
The main power draw was always APU/RAM/SSD.
The only difference I really noticed was blacker blacks for greater contrast, and a bigger cost difference.

Be nice to see an OLED screen upgrade option in the future.
Maybe some 3rd party will make one?

[Lruce_Bee]

I'm not sure, technically, how it all works but I doubt it's simply the case of dropping in an OLED screen of the exact specifications and it just, I dunno, plugs in and works?
Guessing there will have to be some re-arranging of components and power leads to various boards etc.
I don't think we'll be seeing iFixit selling an OLED screen that just plugs in anytime soon.

[Punkovich]

Publicado originalmente por Lruce_Bee:

I'm not sure, technically, how it all works

Yes, your posts in this thread make this clear.

[darrenphillips666]

Publicado originalmente por Lruce_Bee:

I'm not sure, technically, how it all works but I doubt it's simply the case of dropping in an OLED screen of the exact specifications and it just, I dunno, plugs in and works?
Guessing there will have to be some re-arranging of components and power leads to various boards etc.
I don't think we'll be seeing iFixit selling an OLED screen that just plugs in anytime soon.

A manufacturer would have to make one with the correct connection cables, have a usable resolution and be detectable by the OS?
I’m not saying you could just slap a 7” OLED screen in there.
But it could be done, steam deck is just running SteamOS Based on arch Linux, it’s not a locked down system like a PSP would be.
You can even install windows on it,
There have been a few aftermarket screens made for handhelds and other devices in the past.
If you ever broken your mobile phone or tablet screen and had it replaced, unless you had it repaired the device manufacturer, you got a 3rd party screen, made by some other manufacturer.

[Lruce_Bee]

Publicado originalmente por Punkovich:

Publicado originalmente por Lruce_Bee:

I'm not sure, technically, how it all works

Yes, your posts in this thread make this clear.

So is that all you're going to contribute to this discussion?
If not STFU and move on.