A good start are the equivalent documents for R77 gateway here:
sk116255: Check Point Security Gateway Architecture and Packet Flow
One of the PDFs (created May 2017) referenced in this SK says the following:
Look forward to a companion piece describing the R80 Security Gateway architecture which is different in some ways.
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