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how to roughly compare cpu power on mikrotik devices?

Wed Jun 15, 2022 3:19 am

im looking at the hexgr3, hapac2, rb4011 and rb5009

will be doing mostly simple queues on clients
1 client = 1 parent simple queue and 2-3 sub queues
wifi will be disabled purely routing

64 byte (Routing 25 simple queues)
device | kpps | mbps
hexgr3 | 171 | 87
hapac2 | 506 | 256
rb4011 | 960 | 491
rb5009 | 1001 | 544

based on the performance above
hapac2 is 3x more cpu than hexgr3. correct?
rb4001 is 2x more cpu power than hexgr3. correct?
rb5009 has a very slight performance increase vs the rb4001. correct?

local prices i can add around ~10usd to the hexgr3 price to get the hapac2
the cost of 3 hapac2 can buy only 1 rb4011
and around the cost of 4 hapac2 for 1 rb5009

So the hapac2 looks to be the best bang for the buck. Correct?
 
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Re: how to roughly compare cpu power on mikrotik devices?

Wed Jun 15, 2022 4:02 am

it depends of the role you want to use the router

for process intensive task like queues i find the test 25 ip filter rules 512 byte the figure most representative to compare

i think hap-ac2 or rb450gx4 (both almost same cpu) the smallest router to recommend,

hap-ac2/rb450gx4 have almost twice the processing power than rb750gr3/rb760igs

rb4011 have almost twice the processing power than hap-ac2/rb450gx4 so almost 4x times the rb750gr3/rb760igs
the difference between rb4011 and rb5009 remains to be seen in real world, the published performance figures are not direclty comparable because rb4011 has number under routeros 6 and rb5009 number under routeros 7

rb4011 has another advantage because single thread performance doubles smalller routers because cpu clock of 1400mhz vs 712 of hap-ac2/rb450gx4 and 880mhz of rb750gr3/rb760igs

another advantage of rb4011, its cpu uses out-of-order execution which deliver more performance per clock than smaller routers cpu

i think rb4011 has the best price/performance ratio, includes plenty of ram of 1024mb and integrated storage of 512mb, and 1x10g sfp+ interface + 10 x gigabit ethernet rj45

i have tested rb4011 on many scenarios but
i have not tested rb5009 on real world scenarios so i cant do a fair comparison with rb4011

i expect rb5009 at least deliver same or better performance compared to rb4011
 
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Re: how to roughly compare cpu power on mikrotik devices?

Fri Jan 13, 2023 2:00 pm

Can you please produce a rough list/table of the main types of RB, and their rank about performances, then the bus bandwith, bits, and OoO execution capability? You seem very competent and I would like to learn more.

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