Samsung Exynos W930 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon W5+ Gen 1

Samsung Exynos W930

The Samsung Exynos W930 is a SoC intended for smartwatches that was announced in mid 2023. It integrates two small ARM Cortex-A55 CPU cores at up to 1.4 GHz and an ARM Mali-G68MP2 GPU. The integrated LTE modem supports Cat.4 Download (150 Mbps) and Cat.5 Upload (75 Mbps). For satellite positioning, the SoC supports GPS, GLONASS, Beidou and Galileo. Furthermore, the package integrates 2GB LPDDR4 RAM and 16 GB eMMC.

The chip is manufactured in the relatively modern 5nm process at Samsung.

Qualcomm Snapdragon W5+ Gen 1

The Qualcomm Snapdragon W5+ Gen 1 (or W5 Plus Gen 1) is a SoC for smartwatches and fitness trackers in the Wear series. It integrates a CPU with four ARM Cortex A53 cores and up to 1.7 GHz, an Adreno 702 GPU with up to 1GHz, a single channel (1x16) LPDDR4 2133 MHz memory controller, Bluetooth 5.3, WLAN 802.11n (2.4 and 5 GHz) and an LTE modem (Rel 13 with Cat1 support). The SoC (SW5100) is manufactured using a modern 4nm process. In contrast to the W5 (non Plus), the W5+ integrate an additional Always-On-Chip in 22nm (QCC5100 with a 250 MHz Cortex-M55 CPU).