Apple Watch's S8 Chip Features Same CPU as S6 and S7

[PhoenixDown]

when you scratch up the aluminum screen once, you'll wish you stayed SS

I've been pretty fortunate and do not have any real scratches on my aluminum S3.

 

[JNGold]

I have an S7 graphite and I’ll probs go back to silver SS next if possible. The S7 graphite doesn’t have DLC whereas the S6 did. Odd for what was touted as “the most durable Apple Watch yet” (last year)

Where did you get the specs that confirm no DLC for S7 Stainless Steel? And whether S8 has it as well? If that's the case then the Silver wouldn't have it either, no? Anyways, I have gone SS Silver for a couple generations now, looking forward to that shade color change.

 

[MrGimper]

Where did you get the specs that confirm no DLC for S7 Stainless Steel? And whether S8 has it as well. If that's the case then the Silver wouldn't have it either, no? Anyways, I have gone SS Silver for a couple generations now, looking forward to that shade color change.

It was a big discussion on here last year and it was confirmed by apple on part of that discussion, and they removed the mention of DLC from their website. I think someone used wayback to see DLC was referred to on the S6 graphite.

The silver SS doesn't have and never has had a DLC coating as it's just polished SS.

The reason I said I'd go back to Silver SS was so that it could be polished if it got scratched. The PVD SS graphite/gold scratches easily and you can't polish it.

 

[Skumdog]

Anyone knows if it's 7nm or 5nm based SoC ?

4nm

 

[LoveToMacRumors]

Still on series 2 lmao, but i only use it for notifications, which i realize a $1000 device is too expensive for just that

 

[BorisDG]

Most people here even don't understand that the S6/7/8 SoC is based on A13 efficient cores, but with higher clock. That's still kinda overkill for a watch. Just see the competition. The Exynos in the Galaxy Watch 4/5 is kinda bad. It's based on outdated A55 cores.

 

[srknpower]

Do we have any ideas about rest of the S8 SiP? Yes, the CPUs are the same but what about the GPU or memory? There are some users suggesting their Apple Watch Ultras have better performance than their Series 6 watches.

 

[BorisDG]

It's the same in general. Same GPU I think and the RAM is still 1.5GB. [Source] Sadly, because how it's packed nobody actually deep dived into the SiP.

 

[DaPhox]

The PVD SS graphite/gold scratches easily and you can't polish it.

This is absolutely not true.

 

[MrGimper]

This is absolutely not true.

It is true, I have a graphite watch and it’s scratched easily. Also others have reported the same. And also due to the coating you can’t polish the scratches out. I tried a cape cod cloth which worked on my silver SS, and it doesn’t work. So, what I said is entirely true.

 

[SAIRUS]

Yeah I’ve had enough with them releasing the same chip, I want to run Final Cut Pro damn it!

Just to mess with the iPad Pro crowd, Apple should release Final Cut Pro on the Apple Watch.