We can do 43,000 id hash check + schnorr verifications a second on the CPU (all threads, blocking everything else) of a Pixel 8. Can you do it faster? 

Amethyst receives on average 7000 events per second from 13 relays relays on WiFi. The startup collection is about 63,000 events for my user. If the number of relays increase, we see even more.