XG Home CPU for 700/350Mbps internet link

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Hi everyone, 
 
 Searching on community about CPUs for XG Home I only found topics about older CPUs suggestions. Here's my home network details and goals with XG Home: 
 
 Current network: 
 
 Internet Downlink/Uplink: 700/350Mbps (monthly average internet usage 40/50Mbps) 
 Router Cisco ISR 1100 
 LAN IPs: 30~40 
 2 GRE Tunnels no encryption 
 IPFIX Flow 
 6 ACL 
 1 Route-map to re-route a IP from LAN to a tunnel

I need a CPU that will not throttle at peak usage of my 700/350Mbps link, must support the configurations above and I expect at least 100Mbps of SSL inspection, here are my options: 
 
 Intel Pentium N6005 
 Intel i5 1135G7 
 Intel i7 1165G7 
 AMD Ryzen 5 5600U (Note: I found an appliance with this CPU at same price as i5 1135G7) 
 AMD Ryzen 7 5800U (Note: I found an appliance with this CPU at same price as i7 1165G7) 
 Open to other CPU suggestions

I'm really considering N6005 (my wallet choice), however I'm not sure if it can handle my internet traffic, my second options are the AMD CPUs, I would run the XG on ESXi 8.0 and use the extra cores for something else. 
 
 Thank you!

rfcat_vk · Answer

Hi. 
 the basic rule for home use CPU selection is the faster the better, 4 real cores and you don't need a maths co-processor so a fast Xeon is good. 
 Now what the processing throughput is like will depend on what you have enabled. 
 My XG115W has a 4 core and my link speed is 1000/50. My configuration allows connection speeds around the 600 max download and 45 upload, though the upload is hamstrung by the infrastructure company. They have funny ideas about upload speeds. With my test XG running a Xeon I can hit around 850 or so depending on time of day. The test machine does not have any serious configuration settings. 
 Ian

Prism · Answer

diogogm said: peak usage of my 700/350Mbps link, must support the configurations above and I expect at least 100Mbps of SSL inspection 
 Any of the CPU's that you mentioned will be able to do handle it. 
 I recommend you stick with the fastest CPU that you can buy. The N6005 should be able to handle around ~500 Mbit/s of TLS Decryption (Or more), all others if setup correctly can-do gigabit of TLS Decryption with multiple connections. 
 As an example, the XG115w Rev.3 uses an Intel Atom E3940, this is a very low-end CPU even at Its launch date but still capable of doing ~140 Mbit/s of TLS Decryption. (Before It I had an Intel G5400 and a Ryzen 3300x, the Ryzen could do 10G IPS.)

XG Home CPU for 700/350Mbps internet link

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