Raspberry pi 4 as main router vs Xiaomi AX6S

Raspberry Pi 4 has only one Ethernet, and to be used as a router you will need an USB Ethernet dongle, which IMHO is less than ideal. This way I would rather go with a NanoPi R4S. It is cheaper and much better than the Raspberry Pi 4 to be used as a router (4GB RAM, 6 core CPU and two Gigabit Ethernet ports).

I actually used the AX6S for a while as a main router, and now I've replaced it with a Nano PI R4S. The AX6S has support to hardware NAT and can also achieve Gigabit WAN speeds without SQM.

Below is a CPU (coremark) benchmark I did just for reference (I do not own a Pi4) I recently posted in the NanoPi R4S topic - notice its is a single-core benchmark:

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Device       SoC                Cores       Clock       Coremark 1.0
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Odroid C2    Amlogic S905       4xA53       1.50 GHz      4997.917534
Redmi AX6S   MediaTek MT7622BV  2xA53       1.35 GHz      4681.282671
NanoPI R4S   Rockchip RK3399    4xA53+2xA72 1.4/1.8 GHz   4990.435000 (1)-A53
NanoPI R4S   Rockchip RK3399    4xA53+2xA72 1.4/1.8 GHz  10535.742506 (2)-A72
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(1) A53 core: taskset 0x000000001 coremark
(2) A75 core: taskset 0x000000010 coremark

Below is also a WAN speed test I did with AX6S that I had posted some time ago in this router's topic:

ax6s-tests1

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