Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon Wear Elite chipset back at MWC, where Samsung also confirmed that its next smartwatches would use this new chip. This means the upcoming Galaxy Watch 9 and Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 will use the Snapdragon Wear Elite, and they’re being announced in less than two weeks.
While Qualcomm did announce this chip already, they didn’t give us a ton of info, like how many cores and the clock speed. Well, now we have that info, thanks to a Geekbench listing.
This Geekbench listing shows we’ll have five cores with the Snapdragon Wear Elite: one performance Cortex-A78C core clocked at 2.11GHz and four efficiency Cortex-A55 cores running at 1.96GHz. There is also the Adreno 622 GPU inside with one compute unit.
Geekbench also shows that this unit is tested on Android 16 with 4GB of RAM. Which likely means that it has not been updated to Wear OS 7, as that version of Wear OS is based on Android 17.
This shows that it should be a pretty big upgrade over the Exynos W1000. The single-core test is about 54% higher, and the multi-core is around 56% higher.
The Android Headlines Take
The move to Qualcomm for the Galaxy Watch 9 is definitely good, as we’re starting to get more and more AI on our wrists. So the higher clockspeeds will allow for better on-device AI with Gemini and whatever other features OEMs decide they want to add in.
Though Qualcomm has also said that this chip is a lot more efficient and allows for much faster charging. So it’s not just about the processor being faster.
Now, will you notice this difference in day-to-day usage? Likely not. Unless you have a much older Galaxy Watch, say a Galaxy Watch 6 or older. And this is because what you can do on your watch is still limited, at least until Google fully launches Gemini Intelligence.
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