What's the point of 10G nics?

Does 10G nics for home servers actually do anything? I have a gigabit router and the motherboard on my server is 2.5G. Wouldn’t the 10G be throttled once it hits the 1G router and then only send out that speed to all other devices? Would I actually be getting better speeds than what I pay for also?

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Router doesn’t need to be 10G. Get a 10GB switch to connect your 2.5 mobo to your NAS on 10GB.

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