Amazfit isn’t wasting time. Less than four weeks after launching the Cheetah 2 Pro, their marathon focused road flagship smartwatch aimed squarely at the Garmin Forerunner 970; the brand is back with a second Cheetah drop: the Cheetah 2 Ultra, a trail focused watch priced at $599.

Where the Cheetah 2 Pro was engineered for road marathoners counting splits and chasing negative ones, the Ultra is built for runners who measure success in elevation gained, hours on feet, and terrain that doesn’t have a name on any map. Think back yard races, Leadville and for us, Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim.

What You’re Getting

The Cheetah 2 Ultra isn’t reinventing the wheel, but it upgrades the one the Pro already built. You get the same Grade 5 titanium alloy housing and 3,000-nit AMOLED display, but the screen jumps from 1.32 to 1.5 inches (480×480 resolution), giving you more real estate when you need to read pace data mid-descent while staying focused.

Storage doubles to 64GB, so plenty of room for topo maps, offline music, and everything else you need when you’re eight miles from cell service. Amazfit also swapped in the faster HS3s processor, a meaningful upgrade for anyone who’s ever waited on a slow GPS lock at a 5am trailhead.

The biggest number is the 30 days of battery life in smartwatch mode, or 60 hours with continuous GPS. That’s a 50% improvement over the Pro and made possible by a 44% larger battery — 780 mAh vs. the Pro’s 540 mAh.

For ultra runners or cyclists doing 24 hour efforts or longer, that GPS runtime matters especially if you’re in the middle on nowhere. And over 180 sport modes ship pre-installed.

How It Stacks Up Against the Cheetah 2 Pro

If you’re cross-shopping within the Cheetah 2 family, here’s the short version:

Both share the same titanium and sapphire construction, dual-band GPS, Zepp Coach AI, and third-party platform integrations (Strava, and TrainingPeaks).

The Ultra just scales everything up for longer, harder efforts with some padded battery life for when things get iffy.

The Bottom Line

Amazfit continues pushing out watches with impressive specs: stacking premium features at prices that make the leaders in the space uneasy.

At $599, the Cheetah 2 Ultra is going after the Garmin Fenix territory without the Fenix price. Whether it can match Garmin’s reliability in real-world trail conditions is still the question mark, but the hardware argument is hard to ignore.

We genuinely like Amazfit and what they’re doing. They continue to push teh envelop with their hardware, the battery claims, the app, and price.

If you’re logging road miles with a marathon on the calendar, the Pro is your watch. If your next race has more dirt than pavement and your GPS needs to outlast your legs and brain, the Ultra deserves a serious look.

You can get the Cheetah 2 Ultra for $599 on Amazfit.com.