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Wear OS is getting a multi-generational leap in power thanks to Samsung

Samsung's 5 nm Exynos W920.

Enlarge / Samsung’s 5 nm Exynos W920.

Tomorrow is Samsung’s big event for the back half of 2021, and in addition to launching some foldable smartphones , the company is expected to reveal the particular Galaxy Watch 4 and typically the big Wear OS revamp it is working on with Google. Google is cooking up this first major Wear OS release since 2018, and Samsung is abandoning Tizen for smartwatches and going all-in on Wear OS with the Galaxy Watch 4. Last night, Samsung took the wraps off the main SoC for the Galaxy Watch four, and compared to what Put on OS usually gets, Samsung will be shipping a beast of an SoC.

The “Samsung Exynos W920” will be a multi-generational leap in performance for Wear OS. Samsung says this is a 5 nm chip with two ARM Cortex A55 cores and an ARM Mali-G68 GPU. For the always-on display mode, there’s an additional Bande M55 CPU, which can keep often the watch face ticking along while using minimal power. There’s also an integrated LTE modem for on-the-go connectivity.

Compared in order to Samsung’s previous smartwatch chip, your Tizen-only Exynos 9110 (10 nm, 2x Cortex A53), the company} is promising “around 20 percent” better CPU performance and “ten times better graphics performance. ” Remember that the Exynos 9110 is usually from 2018 , so those comparative numbers are inflated, but at 5 nm, this is a more modern chip than Wear OS has ever seen.

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