Netgear R7800 or D7800 recommendation for OpenWrt

Hardware Questions and Recommendations
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Good evening,
I'm relatively new to OpenWRT.
I'm from Italy and I'm fascinated how much you can learn about the project here in the forum. Really great.
I currently have it installed on a TP Link Archer C7 V5.
But now I want to upgrade to better hardware. It should be a Netgear R7800, I will buy a used one.

But I also have the option to buy a D7800. Can someone tell me which of these 2 routers runs better on OpenWRT?
And then the question arises, which OS run better on the Netgears? DD WRT or OpenWRT?

I am really grateful for any help.
Thank you and have a nice day

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The D7800 is a DSL router/modem combination.

The R7800 is a router only.

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Thanks.

yes I know, but the D7800 is a little bit cheaper, and the modem doesn t work on OpenWRT. I don't need them.

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Unless the d7800 is really, really, really cheap, go for the r7800. The xDSL modem is unsupported/ unsupportable, but still needs power, flash is smaller (due to the different partitioning), the SOC older (2*1.4 GHz vs 2*1.7 GHz) with older wireless and the device itself relatively rare (so less eyes on keeping it working, and there is a confusion about the actual RAM size; might differ between h/w revisions).

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