Product Comparison
Instinct®
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1,155
Rugged, reliable outdoor GPS watch |
Fenix 5 Plus
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Premium multisport GPS watch with wrist-based heart rate, maps, music and Garmin Pay™ ready contactless payments |
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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
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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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