SHA-NI on ryzen is pretty fast... about 2 cycles per byte on large inputs. It didn't use to be such a large difference but we optimized everything else... :)

SHA-NI on ryzen is pretty fast... about 2 cycles per byte on large inputs. It didn't use to be such a large difference but we optimized everything else... :) Now only if Intel would ship SHA-NI in a CPU worth using.