Apple M3 Pro
FOLDING@HOME PPD PERFORMANCE

CPU Folding Overview Beta

Folding@Home PPD for the Apple M3 Pro 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 03:11:13

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PPD-PLP Average Apple CPU

29,529

PPD per each of the 12 logical processors.

Data Samples Apple CPU

1,186

Active CPU work unit samples collected for this profile.

Overall Rank All CPUs

#91

Ranked 91 of 789 tracked CPUs.

Brand Rank Apple CPUs

#6

Ranked 6 of 15 Apple CPUs.

CPU PPD ESTIMATES BY LOGICAL PROCESSORS USED BETA

The following data for the Apple M3 Pro 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%
12 354,348 14.3 1 hrs 41 mins
91.7%
11 324,819 13.1 1 hrs 50 mins 1 GPUs
83.3%
10 295,290 11.9 2 hrs 1 mins 2 GPUs
75.0%
9 265,761 10.7 2 hrs 14 mins 3 GPUs
66.7%
8 236,232 9.5 2 hrs 31 mins 4 GPUs
58.3%
7 206,703 8.3 2 hrs 53 mins 5 GPUs
50.0%
6 177,174 7.1 3 hrs 22 mins 6 GPUs
41.7%
5 147,645 5.9 4 hrs 2 mins 7 GPUs
33.3%
4 118,116 4.8 5 hrs 3 mins 8 GPUs
25.0%
3 88,587 3.6 6 hrs 43 mins
16.7%
2 59,058 2.4 10 hrs 5 mins
8.3%
1 29,529 1.2 20 hrs 10 mins

ACTIVE CPU RESEARCH PROJECTS BETA

The following data is the average PPD values for Apple M3 Pro 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 18240 Force-Field-Protein-Dynamics 44,284 531,408
100.0%
2 18490 cancer 37,629 451,548
85.0%
3 12486 alzheimers 28,303 339,636
63.9%
4 16959 cancer 27,881 334,572
63.0%
5 12479 cancer 26,200 314,400
59.2%
6 16969 cancer 25,795 309,540
58.2%
7 12475 cancer 25,708 308,496
58.1%
8 12476 cancer 25,352 304,224
57.2%
9 12474 cancer 25,283 303,396
57.1%
10 12485 alzheimers 24,249 290,988
54.8%
11 12477 cancer 24,132 289,584
54.5%
12 12469 Cyclic-Tetrapeptide-Synthesis 18,848 226,176
42.6%
13 12467 Cyclic-Tetrapeptide-Synthesis 16,679 200,148
37.7%
14 12466 CTP-Synthesis-Stereochemistry 13,378 160,536
30.2%
15 12463 cancer 11,530 138,360
26.0%