Apple M2 Max
FOLDING@HOME PPD PERFORMANCE

CPU Folding Overview Beta

Folding@Home PPD for the Apple M2 Max 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 03:13:50

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PPD-PLP Average Apple CPU

5,828

PPD per each of the 12 logical processors.

Data Samples Apple CPU

453

Active CPU work unit samples collected for this profile.

Overall Rank All CPUs

#379

Ranked 379 of 789 tracked CPUs.

Brand Rank Apple CPUs

#14

Ranked 14 of 15 Apple CPUs.

CPU PPD ESTIMATES BY LOGICAL PROCESSORS USED BETA

The following data for the Apple M2 Max 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%
12 69,936 0.6 41 hrs 25 mins
91.7%
11 64,108 0.5 45 hrs 11 mins 1 GPUs
83.3%
10 58,280 0.5 49 hrs 42 mins 2 GPUs
75.0%
9 52,452 0.4 55 hrs 13 mins 3 GPUs
66.7%
8 46,624 0.4 62 hrs 7 mins 4 GPUs
58.3%
7 40,796 0.3 70 hrs 59 mins 5 GPUs
50.0%
6 34,968 0.3 82 hrs 49 mins 6 GPUs
41.7%
5 29,140 0.2 99 hrs 23 mins 7 GPUs
33.3%
4 23,312 0.2 124 hrs 14 mins 8 GPUs
25.0%
3 17,484 0.1 165 hrs 39 mins
16.7%
2 11,656 0.1 248 hrs 28 mins
8.3%
1 5,828 0.0 496 hrs 56 mins

ACTIVE CPU RESEARCH PROJECTS BETA

The following data is the average PPD values for Apple M2 Max 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 @ 12 LP
PPD RANK %
Of Best PPD
1 16959 cancer 15,394 184,728
100.0%
2 16969 cancer 8,100 97,200
52.6%
3 19229 Halogenase-Directed-Drug-Design 7,324 87,888
47.6%
4 19228 Halogenase-Regioselectivity-Prediction 6,672 80,064
43.3%
5 12413 influenza 6,213 74,556
40.4%
6 12412 influenza 5,962 71,544
38.7%
7 12405 influenza 5,545 66,540
36.0%
8 18426 tyrosine phosphatase S 5,400 64,800
35.1%
9 18427 cancer 5,067 60,804
32.9%
10 18428 cancer 4,899 58,788
31.8%
11 12419 influenza 3,607 43,284
23.4%
12 18491 cancer 3,471 41,652
22.5%
13 19230 Halogenase-Biocatalysis 3,423 41,076
22.2%
14 12417 influenza
0.0%
15 12480 Cyclic-Tetrapeptide-Synthesis
0.0%