Even though we’re most likely many months away from welcoming a new generation of premium mainstream smartwatches from industry heavyweights, credible rumors are for some reason swirling over these highly anticipated devices today. While the Pixel Watch 3 is expected to move from one size to two to keep up with the flexibility of its tier 1 rivals later this year, the Galaxy Watch 7 will purportedly pack an Exynos 5535 processor to try to overpower both Google’s next-gen Wear OS soldier and the Apple Watch Series 10.

If that number doesn’t mean anything to you, perhaps the Exynos W940 name will tell you a little something about what to expect from the Galaxy Watch 7 series in terms of raw power. Still nothing? Fret not, as that’s obviously what we’re here for.

Last year’s Galaxy Watch 6 and Watch 6 Classic, mind you, happen to use a Samsung-made Exynos W930 SoC, which naturally means the Galaxy Watch 7 will improve the already impressive overall performance of their 2022-released predecessors. Of course, it’s hard to know what kind of a real-world upgrade might be in store here, but a report from several months back suggested that Samsung was working on a 3nm-based processor for its next big smartwatch. The Exynos W930 inside the Watch 6 series is a 5-nanometer affair, so if all of this speculation materializes, future Galaxy Watch 7 owners could be in for a major improvement in both power and energy efficiency. A faster smartwatch with better battery life would certainly help Samsung inch closer to its competitors, but obviously, it’s far too early to talk or even think about that… too much.