CRS310 viable as 10Gbit router?

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Hello friends,
I am looking to futureproof my home network and be ready for 10Gbit speeds if and when I move to a place where ISP’s offer those speeds, and possibly maybe learn a thing or two in the process and as such, I am here looking at Mikrotik products.
I was thinking about the CRS310 specifically, since it will fit in a 10" rack that I have available, otherwise I would be looking at a CRS309.

However reading the test results on the product page it will only route packets at roughly 1Gbit, am I reading that correctly?
Does this mean that if I use this as a router uplinked through one of the SFP+ ports, and by router I mean not much more than DHCP server and port forwarding, the packets will be limited to those 1200mbps?

Thank you for your time and patience, and please let me know if any of this was unclear!

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i dont think so, CRS 310 is a Switch, if you want a very capable and Future Proof Router for beyond 1 or 2 gbit/s go for CCR 2116, includes an integrated switch so is very versatile

many people will think is overkill so there is plenty of opinions

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The only way to make that work is to rely exclusively on L3HW offloading, which as you can see is iffy on the CRS310, as it doesn’t do NAT or FastTrack in hardware. The CRS309 is stronger, but even it isn’t a “router,” strictly speaking.

If you want to do anything at all clever at the border, you need a proper router, and that requires CPU grunt.