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Apple M3
FOLDING@HOME PPD PERFORMANCE

CPU Folding Overview Beta

Folding@Home PPD for the Apple M3 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 03:13:21

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PPD-PLP Average Apple CPU

11,391

PPD per each of the 8 logical processors.

Data Samples Apple CPU

1,550

Active CPU work unit samples collected for this profile.

Overall Rank All CPUs

#328

Ranked 328 of 789 tracked CPUs.

Brand Rank Apple CPUs

#11

Ranked 11 of 15 Apple CPUs.

CPU PPD ESTIMATES BY LOGICAL PROCESSORS USED BETA

The following data for the Apple M3 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 91,128 1.4 16 hrs 49 mins
87.5%
7 79,737 1.2 19 hrs 13 mins 1 GPUs
75.0%
6 68,346 1.1 22 hrs 26 mins 2 GPUs
62.5%
5 56,955 0.9 26 hrs 55 mins 3 GPUs
50.0%
4 45,564 0.7 33 hrs 39 mins 4 GPUs
37.5%
3 34,173 0.5 44 hrs 51 mins 5 GPUs
25.0%
2 22,782 0.4 67 hrs 17 mins 6 GPUs
12.5%
1 11,391 0.2 134 hrs 34 mins 7 GPUs

ACTIVE CPU RESEARCH PROJECTS BETA

The following data is the average PPD values for Apple M3 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 12480 Cyclic-Tetrapeptide-Synthesis 24,674 197,392
100.0%
2 12417 influenza 23,407 187,256
94.9%
3 18240 Force-Field-Protein-Dynamics 21,971 175,768
89.0%
4 12468 Cyclic-Tetrapeptide-Synthesis 20,381 163,048
82.6%
5 12466 CTP-Synthesis-Stereochemistry 19,020 152,160
77.1%
6 12469 Cyclic-Tetrapeptide-Synthesis 18,668 149,344
75.7%
7 12481 Cyclic-Tetrapeptide-Synthesis 18,371 146,968
74.5%
8 12467 Cyclic-Tetrapeptide-Synthesis 18,028 144,224
73.1%
9 12464 cancer 17,335 138,680
70.3%
10 12460 Cyclic-Tetrapeptide-Synthesis 16,741 133,928
67.8%
11 12422 influenza 14,812 118,496
60.0%
12 18490 cancer 13,848 110,784
56.1%
13 12421 influenza 12,299 98,392
49.8%
14 12419 influenza 11,567 92,536
46.9%
15 16969 cancer 11,564 92,512
46.9%
16 12463 cancer 10,905 87,240
44.2%
17 16959 cancer 10,217 81,736
41.4%
18 12423 influenza 10,021 80,168
40.6%
19 12443 cancer 9,574 76,592
38.8%
20 19230 Halogenase-Biocatalysis 8,707 69,656
35.3%
21 12420 influenza 8,460 67,680
34.3%
22 19228 Halogenase-Regioselectivity-Prediction 7,350 58,800
29.8%
23 16990 cancer 6,494 51,952
26.3%
24 16998 cancer 6,232 49,856
25.3%
25 19229 Halogenase-Directed-Drug-Design 6,094 48,752
24.7%
26 18800 cancer 5,884 47,072
23.8%
27 19227 Halogenase-Prediction 5,222 41,776
21.2%
28 18803 cancer 5,053 40,424
20.5%
29 12444 cancer 3,849 30,792
15.6%
30 12410 influenza 3,668 29,344
14.9%
31 18426 tyrosine phosphatase S 2,831 22,648
11.5%
32 12418 influenza 2,644 21,152
10.7%
33 18427 cancer 2,172 17,376
8.8%