i haven't ever found CPU to be the limiting factor, nor have i heard it to be slow; but mind it's a consumer router, if you want utmost speed i guess you end up in the more professional segment aimed at datacenters-or roll your own firewall with a mini x86_64 pc

maybe also see also this previous thread with suggestions, though most people seem to prefer pfSense based routers there not openwrt:
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