Garmin has launched a lot of new watches in 2025, but the most exciting of them all is the Garmin Fenix 8 Pro MicroLED, even if it’s perhaps the one people are least likely actually to buy.

The world’s first MicroLED smartwatch sits at the top of Garmin’s line-up and has an eye-popping $1,999 price tag, $700-800 more than the Garmin Fenix 8 Pro AMOLED.

As a result, it’s unlikely to prove too enticing to shoppers, but the MicroLED display on the watch is undeniably impressive and a more noticeable upgrade over the Fenix 8 Pro's AMOLED display than I expected.

In this comparison, I’ll highlight the display differences and how much of a factor they were in my real-world testing, and also go through any other differences in the two watches, like battery life.

For the most part, these two w

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