[stonegray]

I think the intention is to measure the adapter itself independent from the CPU/overall system.

Besides, I can’t think of a typical single threaded application that would use those data rates, can you?

[fulafel]

File transfer and storage (Dropbox, browser download, rsync, scp, NFS/SAN etc) is a classic use case that can utilize all the bandwidth you have and typically uses single streams between client and server.

[iknowstuff]

Steam downloads

[stonegray]

Steam download rates are throttled based on how fast it can actually install the game so it’s a bit of an outlier