ROG Rapture GT AC5300 vs TPLINK Archer A6 v3

VS

ASUS GT-AC5300

TP-LINK Archer A6 v3.0

We compared the ROG Rapture GT AC5300 (AC5300) with Broadcom BCM4908 4-core processor and the TPLINK Archer A6 v3 (AC1200) with MediaTek MT7621DAT 2-core processor. You will find out which router performs better in benchmark tests, wireless specifications, and other information.

Main Differences

ROG Rapture GT AC5300 Advantages

Larger RAM (1GiB vs 128MiB)

Faster Wireless Speed (2167Mbps vs 300Mbps)

Faster Wireless Speed (900Mbps vs 867Mbps)

TPLINK Archer A6 v3 Advantages

Higher CPU Performance (880GHz vs 1.8GHz)

Score

benchmark

DMIPS performance

ROG Rapture GT AC5300 +488%

16560

TPLINK Archer A6 v3

2816

ROG Rapture GT AC5300

VS

TPLINK Archer A6 v3

General

Apr 2017

Release Date

-

Wi-Fi 5

Wireless Protocol

Wi-Fi 5

AC5300

Series

AC1200

Yes

3rd Party ROM Support

Yes

CPU Performance

Broadcom BCM4908

Processor

MediaTek MT7621DAT

ARM Cortex-A53

CPU Architecture

MIPS 1004Kc

1.8 GHz x4

CPU Performance

880 MHz x2

256 MiB

Flash ROM

16 MiB

1 GiB

RAM

128 MiB

Radio Band 1

5 GHz

Frequency Band

2.4 GHz

Broadcom BCM4366E

Wireless Chip

MediaTek MT7603EN

2167 Mbps

Wireless Speed

300 Mbps

4 spatial streams 4x4

MIMO Specification

2 spatial streams 2x2

Radio Band 2

2.4 GHz

Frequency Band

5 GHz

Broadcom BCM4366E

Wireless Chip

MediaTek MT7613BEN

900 Mbps

Wireless Speed

867 Mbps

4 spatial streams 4x4

MIMO Specification

2 spatial streams 2x2

Radio Band 3

5 GHz

Frequency Band

-

Broadcom BCM4366E

Wireless Chip

-

2167 Mbps

Wireless Speed

-

4 spatial streams 4x4

MIMO Specification

-

Wireless Parameters

MU-MIMO

MIMO

MU-MIMO

1024

QAM Modulation

-

LAN Parameters

Broadcom BCM53134S

Switch Chip

MediaTek MT7621DAT

1 GbE x8

LAN Port

1 GbE x4

1 GbE x1

WAN Port

1 GbE x1

Miscellaneous

ROG Rapture GT AC5300

Official Website Link

TPLINK Archer A6 v3

19 VDC, 3.42 A

Power

12 VDC, 1 A

2

USB Ports

-

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