What's with the negative attitude. Cursing or 'pressuring' on a forum will not make the products get released any sooner. If at all, it will actually depress the developers. Ask kindly, or just stay quiet.
Please?
Also, don't
'demand' performance. These devices are not made for you specifically and are supposed to be used in a multitude of situations. Maybe it will fit your performance profile, maybe not. Next to that, instead of coming on here and demanding performance and whatever, why not do the math yourself! You did read all topics about it before posting right?.......RIGHT?
We already know (if you read this topic) that the RB850Gx2 is going to have the same processor PLATFORM as the
RB1100AHx2. That one is running at 1066Mhz though and the RB850Gx2 will be running at 500Mhz. So, let's say they have improved a generation over what was in the RB1100AHx2 and thus multiply performance IPC by *sucks on thumb* 1.2. In theory that would mean it would have the equivalent performance of 888Mhz of the old version. Now we devide that through 500 and thus this new device will have about 1,7x less performance then the RB1100AHx2.
Ok, in the absolute best case scenario a RB1100AHx2 can do about 5GBps of routing. No one would ever use it that way though, so adding some rules and some different size packets in the mix it can probably do about *sucks on thumb again* 2,3Gbps in a more realistic scenario. We just said the RB850GX2 can do about ~0,6x the performance of the RB1100AHx2 so that leaves us with an expected performance in a realistic scenario of *drum roll* 1380Mbit!
Having the device do about 1Gbps would make sense in their product portfolio. Even if my IPC guess is wrong and the cores in the CPU have the same IPC it would mean that the device would be able to do at least 1081Mbit in the given scenario. Also, I expect all the of the ports will be switch connected and not CPU connected and most often if not always a switch in a RouterBoard has a 1Gbps CPU uplink thus again having the 1Gbps limit of the CPU make sense. Judging from the posted photo, the little chip is probably the switch chip. Most likely, following Routerboard design choices it will NOT have L3 hardware functions, since it's not a CRS.
Then again, this could be completely wrong, the new chip might have an IPC of twice the one in the RB1100AHx2 or whatever magic pixy dust they have or have not sprinkled on the device. We don't know, but you can make an educated guess, so here it is.
Just to clarify for people who don't read what I typed above:
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It will most likely do about 1Gbps in a fairly realistic scenario.
- Probably 2Gbps in a light queues/filter scenario and below 1Gbps if you use a lot of queues/filters
- No clue on NAT, ask someone with a RB1100AHx2 what max NAT speeds they can achieve and calculate it through
- Probably hardware accelerated VPN's, maybe not