Comparison via Equals or HashCode. which is faster?

I have to compare a object with the raw properties of the same class. Meaning, i have to compare those:

struct Identifier
{
    string name;
    string email;
}

with the two strings name and email. I know i could just create a new Identifier instance for name and email and pass that into equals(). My application has to be very fast and resource-saving.

I know that comparison via hashcode isn't a good way, because as explained here there are collisions. But collisions are okay for me, i just need it to be fast.

So,

1) is comparison via GetHashCode (check if the hashcode of both objects are the same) faster than Equals()?

2) Should i instead creating a new instance of Identifier of the two values for the comparison, make a new method which takes the values directly? e.g.

struct Identifier {
  string name;
  string email;

  bool Equals(string name, string email) {
      // todo comparison via hashcode or equals
  }
}

I would use the Equals() and GetHashCode() method generated by resharper.