What it’s good to know
- Samsung not too long ago launched the Galaxy Watch 6 sequence, which comes with a brand new wearable processor.
- The Exynos W930 guarantees to ship 18% extra CPU efficiency whereas sustaining low energy consumption for sure duties.
- The Galaxy Watch 6 is accessible now for preorder and can go on sale on August 11.
Samsung simply launched a brand new smartwatch, and whereas there aren’t many apparent adjustments within the Galaxy Watch 6 design, other than the smaller bezels, there’s a lot occurring internally. The corporate is now highlighting the advantages of the brand new Exynos W930 chipset and the way it goals to raise your wearable expertise.
In accordance with a web page on Samsung’s web site, the brand new Exynos chip comes with a 1.4GHz Cortex-A55 dual-core processor, which is clocked greater than the earlier chip’s 1.18GHz and guarantees to spice up CPU efficiency by 18%. This chip additionally lets Samsung bump the Galaxy Watch 6 RAM to 2GB, the identical because the Google Pixel Watch. This may assist with app efficiency, permitting customers to change between apps as much as 25% sooner than the Exynos W920 used within the earlier fashions.
The chip is constructed on a 5nm course of, and because of the packaging know-how used to design the chip, it takes up much less house within the watch, permitting Samsung to construct a thinner smartwatch whereas stuffing bigger batteries and shows in every variant.
The added battery capability ought to assist with extended use, though Samsung cites as much as 40 hours on a single cost, relying on utilization. Whereas earlier fashions did not stay as much as battery life claims, the brand new chip could hopefully change that because of decrease energy consumption for sure duties just like the always-on show and Bluetooth connectivity.
In fact, we’ll have to completely check the smartwatch to see simply how correct these claims are, however Samsung noticeably lowered the anticipated battery life in comparison with the Galaxy Watch 5. On the one hand, that is a little bit of a letdown, however alternatively, maybe it means we’re lastly getting extra correct figures.
Different specs of the Exynos W930 chip are largely unchanged when in comparison with its predecessor, from the GPU to the storage capability. Nonetheless, given the spectacular efficiency of the earlier chip on the final two Galaxy Watch fashions, which simply leaves different Android smartwatches within the mud, it in all probability would not even matter.
The brand new Galaxy Watch 6 brings not solely a bigger show and smaller bezels, nevertheless it additionally comes with an upgraded chipset and extra RAM for higher app efficiency. It is also the primary smartwatch to return with Put on OS 4.