Sources: Pixel Watch 2 gets major battery life boost with switch to Snapdragon chip
According to sources, the Pixel Watch 2 will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset from the latest “W5” generation.
It’s unclear what level of customization, if any, is occurring, but the
Snapdragon W5+ Gen 1 was announced last July and just arrived on the first Wear OS watch, the
TicWatch Pro 5 which we’ve just reviewed. There’s also the regular Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 without Qualcomm’s co-processor that has, so far, primarily been used by Chinese wearable makers (
Oppo Watch 3).
This 4nm SoC features four A53 cores at 1.7GHz with dual Adreno 702 GPUs (1GHz). In comparison, the original Pixel Watch’s
Exynos 9110 is built on a 10nm process with two Cortex-A53s.