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Apple M2
FOLDING@HOME PPD PERFORMANCE

CPU Folding Overview Beta

Folding@Home PPD for the Apple M2 represents the estimated PPD overall and PPD per logical processor based on averages sampled from real users folding work units collected from a variety of users hardware configurations to create a performance baseline.

Stats as ofSunday, 26 April 2026 03:12:15

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PPD-PLP Average Apple CPU

21,327

PPD per each of the 8 logical processors.

Data Samples Apple CPU

3,221

Active CPU work unit samples collected for this profile.

Overall Rank All CPUs

#205

Ranked 205 of 789 tracked CPUs.

Brand Rank Apple CPUs

#8

Ranked 8 of 15 Apple CPUs.

CPU PPD ESTIMATES BY LOGICAL PROCESSORS USED BETA

The following data for the Apple M2 is estmated based on the average PPD per each logical CPU processor mulitplied by various counts of those logical processors.

PPD data for CPUs is presented this way as folders can optimize their setup by folding on any number of the CPUs available logical processors on a project work unit.

How many logical processors a folder should use for best results is suggested based on the number of GPUs they may also be folding on to allow CPU bandwidth for GPU folding.

The max logical processors a CPU has available should only be used on a system that is dedicated solely to CPU folding with very little other overhead.

CPU Folding
Usage Percentage		 Logical Procs
Enabled		 AVG PPD
Estimated		 WUs Day
Average 		WU Time
Average 		CPU & GPU Folding
LC MAX Suggested
100.0%
8 170,616 11.7 2 hrs 3 mins
87.5%
7 149,289 10.3 2 hrs 20 mins 1 GPUs
75.0%
6 127,962 8.8 2 hrs 44 mins 2 GPUs
62.5%
5 106,635 7.3 3 hrs 16 mins 3 GPUs
50.0%
4 85,308 5.9 4 hrs 5 mins 4 GPUs
37.5%
3 63,981 4.4 5 hrs 27 mins 5 GPUs
25.0%
2 42,654 2.9 8 hrs 11 mins 6 GPUs
12.5%
1 21,327 1.5 16 hrs 22 mins 7 GPUs

ACTIVE CPU RESEARCH PROJECTS BETA

The following data is the average PPD values for Apple M2 project work units based on multiple samples collected via the use of our Folding@Home dark mode web client.

PPD-PLP
Rank		 Project
ID		 Cause
Research		 PPD-PLP
AVG PPD per 1 LP 		ALL LP-PPD
Estimated @ 8 LP 		PPD RANK %
Of Best PPD
1 12408 influenza 43,200 345,600
100.0%
2 12402 influenza 43,200 345,600
100.0%
3 12401 influenza 36,361 290,888
84.2%
4 12409 influenza 34,166 273,328
79.1%
5 12400 influenza 32,400 259,200
75.0%
6 12410 influenza 29,637 237,096
68.6%
7 12419 influenza 27,909 223,272
64.6%
8 12411 influenza 27,007 216,056
62.5%
9 12418 influenza 25,107 200,856
58.1%
10 12403 influenza 22,272 178,176
51.6%
11 16978 cancer 21,600 172,800
50.0%
12 18427 cancer 21,600 172,800
50.0%
13 12436 cancer 21,600 172,800
50.0%
14 18240 Force-Field-Protein-Dynamics 21,459 171,672
49.7%
15 16977 cancer 20,347 162,776
47.1%
16 12416 influenza 18,774 150,192
43.5%
17 18429 cancer 18,512 148,096
42.9%
18 19229 Halogenase-Directed-Drug-Design 18,279 146,232
42.3%
19 12445 cancer 18,090 144,720
41.9%
20 12444 cancer 17,892 143,136
41.4%
21 19230 Halogenase-Biocatalysis 17,518 140,144
40.6%
22 12417 influenza 17,218 137,744
39.9%
23 16999 cancer 16,763 134,104
38.8%
24 12480 Cyclic-Tetrapeptide-Synthesis 15,379 123,032
35.6%
25 12469 Cyclic-Tetrapeptide-Synthesis 14,553 116,424
33.7%
26 19228 Halogenase-Regioselectivity-Prediction 14,202 113,616
32.9%
27 19227 Halogenase-Prediction 13,357 106,856
30.9%
28 12466 CTP-Synthesis-Stereochemistry 12,684 101,472
29.4%
29 18426 tyrosine phosphatase S 12,573 100,584
29.1%
30 12468 Cyclic-Tetrapeptide-Synthesis 12,399 99,192
28.7%
31 16959 cancer 12,293 98,344
28.5%
32 12467 Cyclic-Tetrapeptide-Synthesis 11,730 93,840
27.2%
33 12481 Cyclic-Tetrapeptide-Synthesis 10,963 87,704
25.4%
34 18212 alzheimers 10,871 86,968
25.2%
35 12443 cancer 10,532 84,256
24.4%
36 12421 influenza 10,065 80,520
23.3%
37 18490 cancer 9,877 79,016
22.9%
38 12462 cancer 9,812 78,496
22.7%
39 16998 cancer 9,649 77,192
22.3%
40 12463 cancer 8,818 70,544
20.4%
41 16969 cancer 8,701 69,608
20.1%