Here's some numbers from my RT-AC68U running at 1400/1100 MHz
ASUSWRT-Merlin RT-AC68U 380.68-2 Mon Sep 11 21:44:06 UTC 2017
admin@RT-AC68U-4B50:/tmp/home/root# openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc
Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on 16 size blocks: 7759585 aes-128-cbc's in 3.00s
Doing aes-128-cbc for 3s on...
I been looking into getting one of these Synology boxes
But the CPU/SoC is a bit lame other than it's codec accelerators
https://www.anandtech.com/show/10635/intel-quietly-launches-apollo-lake-so
>Meanwhile on the media side of matters, the media encode and decode functionality is similarly...
Hey, Merlin, I just want you to know that if you drop support for the RT-AC68U I wont be upset. You do what you can do - no pressure! We all want you to know we're grateful for your contributions to the open community. However, I don't see why it wouldn't work with the 68.