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)
- Contrast Ratio: > 1,000,000:1
- Compatibility: Valve Steam Deck (LCD models, 64 GB/256 GB/512 GB)
Upscaling is available, and especially if the higher resolution is a clean 2x then doing it with minimal artifacts it’s quite easy
This may be feasible for WQHD, but upscaling from 960x540 > 1920x1080 doesn’t really sound like an upgrade from WXGA anymore.
Another problem is that while there are some 3D games that support internal upscaling (FSR etc), not every game has the option to scale the UI indepently so things look extremely small at higher resolutions. The games that support both should be an exception and look better on a higher DPI screen.
I do believe that you could either slightly increase the resolution and screensize to 1600x1000 or 1600x900, or just use a WQHD-screen so you can get clean 2x upscaling from 720p.