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by henns 1948 days ago
One thing to keep in mind: a lot of the die real estate in modern processors is spent on doing tasks other than calculating hashes (a lot of it is caches https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-7000-series-architectu... ).

Someone using an FPGA or ASIC can dedicate almost all of the die to creating lots of SHA-256 units.