Product Comparison
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Instinct®
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1,155
Rugged, reliable outdoor GPS watch |
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Fenix 5 Plus
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2,209
Premium multisport GPS watch with wrist-based heart rate, maps, music and Garmin Pay™ ready contactless payments |
Rugged, reliable outdoor GPS watch |
Premium multisport GPS watch with wrist-based heart rate, maps, music and Garmin Pay™ ready contactless payments |
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Safety and tracking features
LiveTrack |
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Group LiveTrack |
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Camper Features
Sunrise/sunset times |
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Tactical Features
Dual grid coordinates |
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Clock Features
Time/date |
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GPS Time Sync |
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Automatic daylight saving time |
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Alarm clock |
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Timer |
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Stopwatch |
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Sunrise/sunset times |
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Sensors
GPS |
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GLONASS |
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Galileo |
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Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor |
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Barometric altimeter |
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Compass |
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Gyroscope |
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Accelerometer |
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Thermometer |
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Daily Smart Features
Connectivity | Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi® | |
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Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) |
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Smart notifications |
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Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only) |
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Calendar |
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Weather |
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Music controls |
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Plays and controls watch music |
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Music Storage | up to 500 songs | |
Find my phone feature |
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VIRB® remote |
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Smartphone compatibility | iPhone® and Android™ | |
Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile |
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Find My Watch feature |
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Garmin Pay™ |
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Heart Rate Features
HR zones |
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HR alerts |
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HR calories |
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% HR max |
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% HRR |
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Recovery time |
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Auto max HR |
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HRV stress test (measures your heart rate variability while standing still, for 3 minutes, to provide you with an estimated stress level; the scale of this is 1 to 100; low scores indicate lower stres | Yes (with compatible accessory) | |
Records heart rate while swimming | Yes (HRM-Tri™ or HRM-Swim™) | |
HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+™ to paired devices) |
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Activity Tracking Features
Step counter |
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Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal) |
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Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it) |
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Sleep monitoring (monitors total sleep and periods of movement or restful sleep) |
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Calories burned |
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Floors climbed |
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Distance traveled |
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Intensity minutes |
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TrueUp™ |
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Move IQ™ |
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Fitness Age | Yes (in app) | |
All-day stress tracking |
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Training, Planning and Analysis Features
Activity history on watch |
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Customizable activity profiles |
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Customizable alerts |
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Audio prompts |
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Auto multisport activities |
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Course guidance |
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Advanced workouts |
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Auto Lap® |
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Auto Pause® |
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Interval training |
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Auto scroll |
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Customizable screen(s) |
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Multi-sport |
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Virtual Partner |
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Finish time |
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Group LiveTrack |
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Hot keys |
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Configurable lap alerts |
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LiveTrack |
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Round-trip course creator (running/cycling) |
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Trendline™ popularity routing |
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Touch and/or button lock |
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Manual lap |
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Segments (Live, Garmin) |
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Strava features (Beacon, live segments) |
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GPS speed and distance |
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Training Effect (aerobic) |
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Training Effect (anaerobic) |
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Race an activity |
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Training Load (your total training load for the last 7 days calculated from estimated EPOC) |
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Downloadable training plans |
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Training Status (lets you see if you’re training effectively by tracking your training history and fitness level trend.) |
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V02 max |
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Running Features
Preloaded run profiles | Running, Treadmill Running, Trail Running | |
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GPS-based distance, time and pace |
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Running dynamics | Yes (with compatible accessory) | |
Vertical oscillation and ratio (the degree of 'bounce' in your running motion and the cost-benefit ratio with stride length) | Yes (with compatible accessory) | |
Ground contact time and balance (shows how much time, in the running motion, your foot is on the ground rather than in flight and lets you check your running symmetry) | Yes (with compatible accessory) | |
Stride length (real time) | Yes (with compatible accessory) | |
Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute) |
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Performance condition (after running 6–20 minutes, compares your real-time condition to your average fitness level) |
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Lactate threshold (through analysis of your pace and heart rate, estimates the point where your muscles start to rapidly fatigue) | Yes (with compatible accessory) | |
Run workouts |
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Race predictor |
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Foot pod capable |
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Outdoor Recreation Features
Preloaded outdoor recreation profiles | Hiking, Climbing, Mountain Biking, Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Skiing, Stand-Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking, Jumpmaster, Tactical | |
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Point-to-point navigation |
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Bread crumb trail in real time |
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Back to start |
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TracBack® |
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UltraTrac™ mode |
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Around Me mode |
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Elevation profile |
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Distance to destination |
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Barometric trend indicator |
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ClimbPro™ ascent planner |
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Trail run auto climb |
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Vertical speed |
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Total ascent/descent |
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Preloaded topographical maps |
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Future elevation plot |
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Downloadable cartography support |
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Compatible with BaseCamp™ |
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GPS coordinates |
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Projected waypoint |
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Sight 'N Go |
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Area calculation | Yes (via Connect IQ™) | |
Hunt/fish calendar | Yes (via Connect IQ™) | |
Sun and moon information | Yes (via Connect IQ™) | |
Dual grid coordinates |
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XERO™ Locations |
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Cycling Features
Preloaded cycling profiles | Biking, Indoor Biking, Mountain Biking, Triathlon | |
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Time/distance alert (triggers alarm when you reach goal) |
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Courses (compete against previous activities) |
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Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor) |
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FTP (Functional Threshold Power) | Yes (with compatible accessory) | |
Round-trip course creator (running/cycling) |
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Garmin Cycle Map (routable cycling-specific street map) |
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Compatible with Vector™ (power meter) |
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Power meter compatible (displays power data from compatible 3rd party ANT+™-enabled power meters) |
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Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted display) |
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Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar) |
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Compatible with Varia™ lights |
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Speed and cadence sensor support (with sensor) | Yes (ANT+® and Bluetooth® Smart sensors) |
Swimming Features
Preloaded swim profiles | Pool swimming, open water swimming, swimming/running | |
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Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count/rate, calories) |
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Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) |
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Pool swim workouts |
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Swim efficiency (SWOLF) |
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Drill logging |
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Heart rate (real-time during rests, interval and sessions stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim) | Yes (with HRM-Tri™ and HRM-Swim™) | |
Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, calories) |
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Golfing Features
Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green) |
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Yardage to layups/doglegs |
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Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course) | Automatic | |
Digital scorecard |
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Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit and average shot distance) |
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Garmin AutoShot™ |
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Auto CourseView updates |
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Green View with manual pin position |
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Hazards and course targets |
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TruSwing™ compatible |
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Round timer/odometer |
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Fitness Equipment/Gym
Preloaded gym activity profiles | Strength Training, Cardio Training, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing and Yoga | |
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Cardio workouts |
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Strength workouts |
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Automatic rep counting |
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Additional
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