Authenticated Encryption is a block cipher mode of operation which simultaneously provides confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity assurances on the data transmition. In this regard in 2014 CAESAR competition started which aims at finding authenticated encryption schemes that offer advantages over AES-GCM and are suitable for widespread adoption. This paper provides an easy-to-grasp overview over functional aspects, security parameters, and robustness offerings of the CAESAR candidates, clustered by their underlying designs (block-cipher-, stream-cipher-, permutation-/sponge-, compression-function-based, dedicated) and compares encryption/decryption speed of all CAESAR candidates implemented on three processors of three different architectures  AMD64, armeabi and  mipso32.