To which UTM appliance the following hardware is similar and are the performances also similar?

You can find the datasheet for SG appliances at www.sophos.com/.../sophos-sg-series-appliances-brna.pdf, to do a comparison. With the UTM being the only VM, the only thing that may affect the performance, will be the amount of memory that has to be used by the Hypervisor.

Hello, thanks again for your answer.

I think the appliances have the following CPUs:

SG-210 : Celeron® G1820 has a speed of 2.70 GHz (probable match for SG-210)
SG-230 : Pentium® Processor G3420 has a speed of 3.20 GHz (probable match for SG-230)
SG-310 : is a Intel® Core™ i3-4330 Processor,
SG-330 : probably is i5-4570S (sole quad i5-4th gen w/o HT and base speed of 2.9GHz)
SG-430 : E3-1225 v3 has a turbo of 3.6GHz (probable match for SG-430)


I would like to know if UTM9 software care more about the number of cores or if it's "more powerful" augmenting the clock. (more powerful=more users, more speed in processing IPS/IDS tasks etc)

Basically : better 8 cores at 2.4Ghz or better 2/4 cores at 3.5Ghz?

Thanks again for your feedback!

Due to IPS (Snort) being single-threaded, for home usage you'd be better off with more GHz.