It almost certainly can, even old intel systems with dual CPU 16 core systems could do 4 and a half million a second [1]. At a certain point network/kernel bott

It almost certainly can, even old intel systems with dual CPU 16 core systems could do 4 and a half million a second [1]. At a certain point network/kernel bottlenecks become apparent though, rather than being compute limited. [1]: https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/products/ethernet-adapters/onload/onload-nginx-plus-benchmark-results.pdf https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/products/et...