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PC Engines APU2, https://pcengines.ch/apu2.htm (6W TDP fanless, 3 ports)

Does the AMD Jaguar GX-412TC SOC really handle full Gigabit with non-trivial rules and/or SQM? Also the 6W is the minimum, it goes up to 10 under load.

I doubt it.

But if you're comparing with products from Ubiquiti (especially the Unifi line) you're probably going to see similar performance anyway. I switched to a APU2 as my home router two years ago, and I've been very happy with it. Doesn't seem to break a sweat handling a gigabit connection in a typical home setting, running VyOS. I'd probably think about something more powerful in an office or data center.

I’ve been using APU2 systems for several years. It can handle gigabit if you’re using Linux and your ISP doesn’t use PPPoE. On PPPoE it tops out around 500mbps for download and 800mbps for upload.

https://teklager.se/en/knowledge-base/apu2-1-gigabit-through... has the necessary tweaks to get full gigabit.

I've applied all of the tweaks and I haven't ever seen it sustain anywhere near 1 Gigabit on a single connection. That's using both a datacenter iperf3 instance and sites like speedtest.net.

Multiple connections can easily breach 1 Gigabit though.

I've seen it before and it looks really good but the CPU was released in 2014

So I'm a bit worried about future software support.

Reading this:

https://teklager.se/en/knowledge-base/apu2-1-gigabit-through...

It looks like 1gbps is possible with tweaks. My hope is whether there's a more plug and play solution.

I've ran pfSense on older ALIX and the APU boards. On the APU I sadly got nowhere close to my symmetric gigabit speeds. I'm not that knowledgeable on network stacks but from what I heard it's probably BSDs network stack that doesn't cut it on that hardware.

I've read that MikroTik's RouterOS delivers significantly more performance on an APU Board but I've not tried that yet (but plan to).

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