Hardware Comparison — India
Netgate 2100 MAX vs Namek NFW5005
Both are fanless, entry-level pfSense / OPNsense firewall appliances built for home labs, small offices, and branch deployments.
Marvell Armada 3720 (88F3720) · 1× WAN + 4× LAN (1GbE) · 4GB DDR4[1]
Official Netgate listingHardware at a glance
Each hardware component gets its own comparison below, scaled to the larger of the two values on that spec.
Network Ports
4
NFW5005 — 4× 2.5GbE Intel i225
All ports independently configurable as WAN or LAN1 WAN + 4 LAN
Netgate 2100 — 1× 1GbE WAN + 4× 1GbE LAN
Only 1 dedicated WAN port — the 4 LAN ports sit behind a Marvell 88E6141 switch chip, sharing a single 2.5Gbps uplink, and are not independent NICs[2]Memory (RAM)
4GB
NFW5005
Expandable to 16GB4GB
Netgate 2100 MAX
Fixed — not upgradeableStorage
128GB
NFW5005
Swappable up to 1TB SATA/NVMe128GB
Netgate 2100 MAX
M.2 SATA 2242 SSD, not NVMe compatibleCPU Performance — Pentium Silver J5005 vs Marvell Armada 3720
Source: PassMark cpubenchmark.netCores
Max Clock Speed
CPU Mark (PassMark benchmark)
No PassMark benchmark exists for the Netgate 2100's exact chip (Marvell Armada 3720 / 88F3720). The closest reference on cpubenchmark.net is a generic 4-core Cortex-A53 @ 1.4GHz — which has double the cores and a higher clock than the 2100's actual 2-core @ 1.2GHz chip, so if anything this understates the real gap. Even so, it scores 260 CPU Mark against the J5005's 3,130.
Notes & Sources
- [1] CPU, RAM, storage, and port specifications for the Netgate 2100 MAX are from Netgate's official product page, which also confirms "4 GB DDR4 (not expandable)". Netgate also sells a cheaper 2100 BASE variant with only 10.6GB eMMC storage.
- [2] The 4 LAN ports can be reconfigured into separate interfaces — including for use as an additional WAN — via 802.1q VLAN mode, but they remain behind the same internal switch, sharing one 2.5Gbps uplink to the CPU rather than being independent NICs. See Netgate's own Switch Overview and Configuring an OPT interface as an additional WAN documentation.
- [3] CPU Mark for the NFW5005 (Intel Pentium Silver J5005) is from PassMark's cpubenchmark.net. No entry exists for the 2100's exact chip (Marvell Armada 3720 / 88F3720); the figure shown is the closest available generic reference (a 4-core Cortex-A53 @ 1.4GHz — more cores and a higher clock than the 2100's actual 2-core @ 1.2GHz chip).
Full specification sheet
| Spec | Namek NFW5005 | Netgate 2100 MAX |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Pentium Silver J5005, 4-core @ up to 2.8GHz (x86-64) | Marvell Armada 3720 (88F3720), dual-core ARM Cortex-A53 @ 1.2GHz |
| Memory | 4GB DDR4 (expandable to 16GB) | 4GB DDR4 (fixed, not upgradeable) |
| Storage | 128GB SSD (swappable up to 1TB SATA/NVMe) | 128GB M.2 SSD (SATA), replaceable via M.2 slot |
| Network ports | 4× 2.5GbE Intel i225, each independently configurable as WAN or LAN | 1× 1GbE WAN (RJ45/SFP combo) + 4× 1GbE LAN (Marvell 88E6141 switch, shared 2.5Gbps uplink) |
| Cooling | Fanless | Fanless (passive cooling) |
| Crypto acceleration | AES-NI | SafeXcel hardware crypto engine |
Netgate 2100 MAX specifications sourced from Netgate's official hardware comparison chart and shop.netgate.com.
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