Now that the Snapdragon W5+ Gen 1 powered TicWatch Pro 5 from Mobvoi is finally on sale and showing just what Wear OS can do with a modern processor, a new report has revealed that Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Watch 6 series will also get a new SoC. Well, new-ish anyway. We say that because it seems that the Exynos W930 shares the same model number as the processor its supposed to replace, the Exynos W920.
According to regulatory filings at the Bluetooth SIG database (via SamMobile), the Galaxy Watch 6's Exynos W930 is based on chip model number S5E5515 which also formed the base for the W920. Thus it would appear that Galaxy Watch 6 buyers can expect a small boost in performance and/or battery life, but nothing along the lines of what Qualcomm's SD W5+ chipset is offering.
Considering that the Exynos W920 chip only looked good because its then competitor was the Snapdragon Wear 4100 which was really just an SDW3100 with a coprocessor bolted on, it could be that Samsung's new smartwatches may be outmatched by Mobvoi's TicWatch Pro 5. Hopefully Samsung has done more with the W930 than just tweaking the clock speed and adding in a few extra RAM or another co-processor. Hopefully.
