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Refresh rate and brightness will be the same as the stock display.

This all sounds lovely, but is it really the display upgrade that the Steam Deck needs?

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An impression of the color reproduction upgrade the Deck HD will offer over the stock Steam Deck display.

I’d say no.

While higher resolution and better colors sounds great, there are going to be drawbacks.

For one, more pixels means a negative impact on battery life, you simply can’t escape that.

Deck HD screen upgrade

An impression of the color reproduction upgrade the Deck HD will offer over the stock Steam Deck display.

The Steam Deck also just isn’t powerful enough really to run more modern titles at this resolution.

But perhaps the biggest elephant in the room is the fact this isn’t anOLEDupgrade.

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Nintendo Switch 2 and Steam Deck on peach background.

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The JSAUX transparent backplate and heatsink fitted to the ROG Ally

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Cyberpunk 2077 benchmark running on MSI Claw 8 AI+.

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