Apple M3 Max
FOLDING@HOME PPD PERFORMANCE

CPU Folding Overview Beta

Folding@Home PPD for the Apple M3 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 03:10:52

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PPD-PLP Average Apple CPU

33,937

PPD per each of the 16 logical processors.

Data Samples Apple CPU

73

Active CPU work unit samples collected for this profile.

Overall Rank All CPUs

#51

Ranked 51 of 789 tracked CPUs.

Brand Rank Apple CPUs

#4

Ranked 4 of 15 Apple CPUs.

CPU PPD ESTIMATES BY LOGICAL PROCESSORS USED BETA

The following data for the Apple M3 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%
16 542,992 43.6 0 hrs 33 mins
93.8%
15 509,055 40.9 0 hrs 35 mins 1 GPUs
87.5%
14 475,118 38.2 0 hrs 38 mins 2 GPUs
81.3%
13 441,181 35.4 0 hrs 41 mins 3 GPUs
75.0%
12 407,244 32.7 0 hrs 44 mins 4 GPUs
68.8%
11 373,307 30.0 0 hrs 48 mins 5 GPUs
62.5%
10 339,370 27.3 0 hrs 53 mins 6 GPUs
56.3%
9 305,433 24.5 0 hrs 59 mins 7 GPUs
50.0%
8 271,496 21.8 1 hrs 6 mins 8 GPUs
43.8%
7 237,559 19.1 1 hrs 15 mins
37.5%
6 203,622 16.4 1 hrs 28 mins
31.3%
5 169,685 13.6 1 hrs 46 mins
25.0%
4 135,748 10.9 2 hrs 12 mins
18.8%
3 101,811 8.2 2 hrs 56 mins
12.5%
2 67,874 5.5 4 hrs 24 mins
6.3%
1 33,937 2.7 8 hrs 48 mins

ACTIVE CPU RESEARCH PROJECTS BETA

The following data is the average PPD values for Apple M3 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 @ 16 LP
PPD RANK %
Of Best PPD
1 12486 alzheimers 38,350 613,600
100.0%
2 16959 cancer 33,780 540,480
88.1%
3 12485 alzheimers 32,299 516,784
84.2%
4 16969 cancer 26,626 426,016
69.4%
5 18240 Force-Field-Protein-Dynamics 24,639 394,224
64.2%