Yes, it does have hardware offload, but that works better in theory than it does in practice. (For doing line-rate NAT with more than a handful of clients, it's

Yes, it does have hardware offload, but that works better in theory than it does in practice. (For doing line-rate NAT with more than a handful of clients, it's not an option, mostly because of the state table limits already mentioned in a sibling comment). "Will the hardware offload actually do anything useful?" is a time-honored Mikrotik game: see the sometimes surprising limits at https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/L3+Hardware+Offloading https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/L3+Hardware+Offlo...