fenix 7X - Model Comparison
Includes Features
- + Music
- + WiFi
- + Maps
- + Solar Charging
- + Built-in LED Flashlight
Includes All Solar Tier Features
- + Sapphire Lens
- + Multi-frequency Support
fēnix® 7 Solar
Slate grey with black bandGO LONGER. GET STRONGER. SEVEN DAYS A WEEK.
Meet any athletic or outdoor challenge with the rugged fēnix 7X Solar multisport GPS watch. Its Power Glass™ solar charging lens uses the sun’s energy to extend battery life — powering advanced training features, sports apps, health and wellness monitoring sensors and more.
Get a battery boost from the sunlight, so you can go longer between charges.
How is your body holding up? Wrist-based heart rate1 and Pulse Ox2 will let you know.
Run and ride — it’s what you do. Tracking all your stats — it’s what we do.
Keep great tunes coming with music on your wrist — and no phone to weigh you down.
When it gets dark, the built-in LED flashlight helps keep you going.
Do more. Charge less. Solar charging yields up to 37 days of battery life in smartwatch mode3.
PERFORMANCE BY DESIGN
Updated, ultratough athletic design features a large 1.4" solar charged display and 51 mm case. The watch is tested to U.S. military standards for thermal, shock and water resistance.
TOUCHSCREEN AND BUTTONS
Trusted button controls that work in any environment are matched with a responsive new touchscreen interface for quick access to selections and functions.
PREMIUM MATERIALS
Fit the watch’s look to your lifestyle with a stylish stainless steel bezel.
BUILT-IN SPORTS APPS
Use preloaded activity profiles for trail running, swimming, running, biking, hiking, rowing, skiing, golfing, surfing, indoor climbing and more.
BACKCOUNTRY SKI
Stay informed when you’re in the snow. This preloaded profile helps distinguish between skiing and climbing. It shows metrics specific to either ascent or descent.
XC SKI DYNAMICS
When paired with the HRM-Pro™ chest strap (sold separately), the ski power metric helps measure the actual exercise load of your cross-country workouts.
SURF-READY FEATURES
Get ready to catch some waves. This fēnix watch works with the Surfline Sessions™ feature, which creates a video of every wave you ride in front of a Surfline® camera4. So you can watch them later and see how you did with your Surfline Sessions subscription.
MTB DYNAMICS
Track the details of every ride with mountain biking metrics plus specialised Grit™ and Flow™ measurements that rate trail difficulty and how smoothly you descend, giving you a score to beat next time.
HIIT WORKOUTS
This activity profile tracks your high-intensity interval training workouts, including AMRAP, EMOM, Tabata and custom. Set the number of rounds, work/rest intervals and more.
DAILY WORKOUT SUGGESTIONS
For training guidance that takes you and your fitness level into account, get daily run and ride recommendations based on your current training load and training status.
VISUAL RACE PREDICTOR
Based on your running history and overall fitness level, this feature provides an estimate of what your pace could be for the distance you want to run. Trend data shows how your training is having an impact over time.
PACEPRO™ TECHNOLOGY
A first-of-its-kind PacePro feature helps keep you on pace with grade-adjusted guidance as you run a course.
CLIMBPRO FEATURE
Use the ClimbPro ascent planner on downloaded courses to see real-time information on your current and upcoming climbs, including gradient, distance and elevation gain — as well as descents and flats.
PERFORMANCE METRICS
View advanced training metrics that include running dynamics, heat- and altitude-adjusted VO2 max, trail running adjustment, recovery advisor and more.
REAL-TIME STAMINA
Use this data to track and manage your exertion — and help avoid overexerting at the start of your run or bike.
RECOVERY TIME ADVISOR
After each workout, recovery time lets you know when you’ll be ready for another hard workout. It even accounts for training intensity and factors such as stress, daily activity and sleep.
BUILT-IN FLASHLIGHT
To help guide your way in low-light conditions, a built-in multi-LED flashlight provides quick access to a bright, steady beam of illumination.
MULTI-GNSS SUPPORT
Access multiple global navigation satellite systems (GPS, GLONASS and Galileo) to track in more challenging environments than GPS alone.
ABC SENSORS
Navigate your next trail with ABC sensors, including an altimeter for elevation data, barometer to monitor weather and 3-axis electronic compass.
GOLF COURSE MAPS
Access full-colour CourseView maps for more than 42,000 golf courses around the world, and get button targeting and the PlaysLike Distance feature.
SKIVIEW™ MAPS
Take on the slopes with preloaded SkiView maps, and view run names and difficulty ratings for more than 2,000 ski resorts worldwide.
MULTICONTINENT TOPOACTIVE MAPS
Download TopoActive Maps from around the world to keep your explorations on track. Use built-in Wi-Fi® connectivity to easily load and update maps and software without using a computer.
UP AHEAD
Get at-a-glance awareness for selected POI checkpoints ahead. View performance metrics, split times and distance/elevation — plus a summary of key trail points coming up.
POWER MANAGER
View how various settings and sensors impact your watch’s battery life, so you can make battery-extending changes on the fly.
BATTERY LIFE
Get up to 28 days of battery life in smartwatch mode with an additional 9 days when solar charging3 — and up to 89 hours in GPS mode with an additional 33 hours when solar charging5.
WRIST-BASED HEART RATE
Optical heart rate technology gauges activity intensity as well as Heart Rate Variability to calculate your stress level. It also tracks underwater without a heart rate strap.
PULSE OX SENSOR
For altitude acclimation or sleep monitoring, a Pulse Ox2 sensor uses light beams at your wrist to gauge how well your body is absorbing oxygen.
SLEEP SCORE AND ADVANCED SLEEP MONITORING
Get a full breakdown of your light, deep and REM sleep stages. View it all on a dedicated widget that includes your sleep score and insights.
BODY BATTERY™ ENERGY MONITORING
Optimise your body’s energy reserves, using heart rate variability, stress, sleep and other data to gauge when you’re ready to be active or when you may need to rest.
RESPIRATION TRACKING
See how you’re breathing throughout the day, during sleep and during breathwork and yoga activities.
HEALTH MONITORING ACTIVITY
Using data from the watch’s various body status sensors, this feature helps track your daily biometric and wellness trends at a glance.
HYDRATION TRACKING
Log daily fluid intake as a reminder to stay hydrated. When auto goal is enabled, you’ll even see estimated sweat loss after an activity, and your goal will adjust accordingly.
SMART NOTIFICATIONS
Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch when paired with a compatible device.
MUSIC APPS
Download songs plus playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music accounts (subscription may be required). Use your wireless headphones for phone-free listening.
GARMIN PAY™ CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS
Breeze through checkout lines with Garmin Pay contactless payments through participating providers.
SAFETY AND TRACKING FEATURES
When your watch and phone are paired, your live location can be sent to your contacts manually or — during select outdoor activities — automatically with built-in incident detection6.
CONNECT IQ™ STORE
Download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps and widgets from the Connect IQ Store on your compatible smartphone.
2 This is not a medical device and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or monitoring of any medical condition; see Garmin.com/ataccuracy. Pulse Ox not available in all countries.
3 Assumes all-day wear with 3 hours per day outside in 50,000 lux conditions.
4 When paired with the Garmin Connect smart device app and the Surfline smart device app.
5 Assumes continuous use for entire period in 50,000 lux conditions.
6 When paired with a compatible smartphone. For safety and tracking features requirements and limitations, see Garmin.com/safety.
General
| Lens Material | Power Sapphire™ |
| Bezel Material | Stainless steel |
| Case Material | Fibre-reinforced polymer with metal rear cover |
| QuickFit Watch Band Compatible | Included (26 mm) |
| Strap material | Silicone |
| Physical Size |
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| Touchscreen | |
| Color Display | |
| LED Flashlight | |
| Display size | 1.40" (35.56 mm) diameter |
| Display resolution | 280 x 280 pixels |
| Display type | Sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP) |
| Weight |
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| Battery life |
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| Water Rating | 10 ATM |
| Memory/History | 16GB |
Clock Features
| Time/date | |
| GPS Time Sync | |
| Automatical daylight saving time | |
| Alarm clock | |
| Timer | |
| Stopwatch | |
| Sunrise/sunset times |
Health Monitoring
| Wrist-based Heart Rate (Constant, Very Second) | |
| Daily Resting Heart Rate | |
| Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts | Yes (high and low) |
| Respiration Rate (24x7) | |
| Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation | yes (spot-check, and optionally all-day acclimation and in sleep) |
| Fitness Age | Yes (in-app) |
| Body Battery™ Energy Monitor | |
| All-Day Stress Tracking | |
| Relaxation Reminders | |
| Relaxation Breathing Timer | |
| Sleep | Yes (Advanced) |
| Sleep score and insights | |
| Hydration | Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) |
| Women's Health | Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) |
| Health Snapshot |
Sensors
| GPS | |
| GLONASS | |
| Galileo | |
| Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor | |
| Barometric Altimeter | |
| Compass | |
| Gyroscope | |
| Accelerometer | |
| Thermometer | |
| Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor |
Daily Smart Features
| Connectivity | Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi® |
| Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) | |
| On-device Connect IQ Store | |
| Smart notifications | |
| Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only) | |
| Calendar | |
| Weather | |
| Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect mobile | |
| Battery Saver (customizable low power watch) | |
| Controls smartphone music | |
| Plays and controls watch music | |
| Music Storage | Up to 2000 songs |
| Find My Phone | |
| Find My Watch | |
| VIRB® REMOTE | |
| Smartphone compatability | iPhone®, Android™ |
| Pairs with Garmin Golf app | |
| Pairs with Garmin Connect™ Mobile | |
| Garmin Pay™ |
Safety and Tracking Features
| LiveTrack | |
| Group LiveTrack | |
| Live Event Sharing | |
| Incident Detection during select activities | |
| Assistance |
Tactical Features
| Dual Grid coordinates |
Activity Tracking Features
| Step Counter | |
| Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it) | |
| Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal) | |
| Calories burned | |
| Floors climbed | |
| Distance traveled | |
| Intensity minutes | |
| TrueUp™ | |
| Move IQ™ | |
| Garmin Connect™ Challenges App | Yes (optional Connect IQ app) |
Gym & Fitness Equipment
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| Cardio Workouts | |
| Strength workouts | |
| HIIT workouts | |
| Yoga workouts | |
| Pilates workouts | |
| On-screen Workout Animations | |
| Automatic rep counting |
Training, Planning and Analysis Features
| HR zones | |
| HR alerts | |
| HR calories | |
| % HR Max | |
| % HRR | |
| Recovery time | |
| Auto max HR | |
| 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 stress levels) | Yes (with compatible accessory) |
| HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+™ to paired devices) | |
| Respiration rate (during exercise) | Yes (with compatible accessory) |
| GPS speed and distance | |
| Customisable data pages | |
| Customisable activity profiles | |
| Auto Pause® | |
| Interval Training | |
| Advanced Workouts | |
| Downloadable training plans | |
| Power Modes - Customizable in-activity battery settings | |
| Auto Lap® | |
| Manual lap | |
| Rest timer | |
| Configurable lap alerts | |
| Heat and altitude acclimation | |
| V02 Max (Run) | |
| V02 Max (Trail Run) | |
| Realtime stamina | |
| Training status (lets you see if you're training effectively by tracking your training history and fitness level trend) | |
| Training load (your total training load for the last 7 days calculated from estimated EPOC) | |
| Training load focus | |
| Training effect | |
| Training effect (anaerobic) | |
| Primary benefit (Training effect labels) | |
| Improved recovery time | |
| Daily suggested workouts | |
| Custom alerts | |
| Audio prompts | |
| Finish time | |
| Virtual partner | |
| Race an activity | |
| Auto multisport activities | |
| Manual multisport activities | |
| Course guidance | |
| Garmin live segments | |
| Strava live segments | |
| Round-trip course creator (running/cycling) | |
| Trendline popularity routing | |
| Touch and/or button lock | |
| Hot keys | |
| Auto scroll | |
| Activity history on watch | |
| Physio TrueUp |
Running Features
| Available run profiles |
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| GPS-based distance, time and pace | |
| 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) | |
| Performance condition (after running 6-20 minutes, compares your real-time condition to your average fitness level) | |
| Lactate threshold (through analysis of your pace and heart rate, estimates the point where your muscles start to rapidly fatigue) | yes (with compatible accessory) |
| PacePro pacing strategies | |
| Run workouts | |
| Race predictor | |
| Foot pod capable |
Golfing Features
| Preloaded with 42,000 courses worldwide | |
| Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green) | |
| Yardage to layups/doglegs | |
| Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course) | Automatic |
| Digital scorecard | |
| Custom targets | |
| Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit) | |
| Garmin AutoShot™ | |
| Full vector map | |
| Auto courseview updates | |
| Green View with manual pin position | |
| Hazards and course targets | |
| PinPointer | |
| PlaysLike distance | |
| Touch-targeting (touch target on display to see the distance to any point) | |
| Handicap scoring | |
| TruSwing compatible | |
| Round timer/odometer | |
| Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory) | |
| Tournament legal |
Outdoor Recreation Features
| Available outdoor recreation profiles |
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| Point-to-point navigation | |
| Bread crumb in real time | |
| Back to start | |
| TracBack | |
| Ultratrac mode | |
| Around Me mode | |
| Up Ahead | |
| Elevation profile | |
| Distance to destination | |
| Barometric trend indicator with storm alert | |
| ClimbPro ascent planner | |
| Trail Run auto climb | |
| Vertical speed | |
| Total ascent/descent | |
| Future elevation plot | |
| Preloaded Ski Resort maps | |
| Downloadable cartography support | |
| Compatible with BaseCamp | |
| GPS coordinates | |
| Sight 'N Go | |
| Area Calculation | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
| Hunt/fish calendar | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
| Projected waypoint | |
| Sun and moon information | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
| Xero locations | |
| Expedition GPS activity | |
| Tides | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
Cycling Features
| Available cycling profiles |
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| Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories) | |
| Courses | |
| Cycle map (routable cycling-specific street map) | |
| MTB grit and flow | |
| Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor) | |
| Race an activity | |
| FTP (functional threshold power) | |
| Compatible with Vector (power meter) | |
| Power meter compatible | |
| Advanced vector support | |
| Compatible with Varia Vision (head-mounted display) | |
| Compatible with Varia Radar (rear-facing radar) | |
| Compatible with Varia lights | |
| Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor) |
Swimming Features
| Available swim profiles |
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| Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (swolf), calories) | |
| Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (swolf), calories) | |
| Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only) | |
| Drill logging (pool swim only) | |
| Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only) | |
| "Repeat on" rest timer (pool swim only) | |
| Auto rest (pool swim only) | |
| Time and distance alerts | |
| Pacing alerts (pool swim only) | |
| Countdown start (pool swim only) | |
| Pool swim workouts | |
| Critical swim speed | |
| Underwater wrist-based heart rate | |
| Heart rate from external HRM (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim) | yes (with HRM-Tri™, HRM-Swim™ and HRM-Pro™) |
Kid Activity Tracking Features
| Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges | Yes (optional Connect IQ app) |
Connectivity
| Smart Trainer control |
In The Box
- fenix 7X Solar watch
- Charging/Data cable
- Documentation
