Especially when using Mikrotik or Ubiquiti routers where you have to be very careful to not select an option that disabled hardware offload. Last I checked ena

Especially when using Mikrotik or Ubiquiti routers where you have to be very careful to not select an option that disabled hardware offload. Last I checked enabling bandwidth logging, various firewall rules, or QoS disabled the hardware offload. Generally CPU is more about PPS than bandwidth, any of this 4000 or 6000 series intel chips seem plenty for a few Gbit of home network loads that are generally gaming (FPS or minecraft), streaming (youtube, amazon, netflix), browser traffic, or plex. Sure if you ran a game server with 10Gbit + and 100s or 1000s of clients it might die, but that's not a normal home traffic load.