A radiation-emitting device including a radiation source, an emission surface through which radiation from the radiation source passes during operation, wherein the emission surface includes a plurality of pixels, each pixel includes a plurality of subpixels, in plan view of the emission surface, each pixel forms a partial area of the emission surface and each subpixel forms a portion of such partial area, for each pixel, at least first subpixels are operable individually and independently of one another, and all subpixels of a pixel together make up at most 50% of the area of the pixel so that in simultaneous operation of all subpixels radiation is emitted via at most 50% of the area of the pixel.