Apple M4
FOLDING@HOME PPD PERFORMANCE

CPU Folding Overview Beta

Folding@Home PPD for the Apple M4 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 03:12:29

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PPD-PLP Average Apple CPU

14,983

PPD per each of the 10 logical processors.

Data Samples Apple CPU

2,910

Active CPU work unit samples collected for this profile.

Overall Rank All CPUs

#231

Ranked 231 of 789 tracked CPUs.

Brand Rank Apple CPUs

#9

Ranked 9 of 15 Apple CPUs.

CPU PPD ESTIMATES BY LOGICAL PROCESSORS USED BETA

The following data for the Apple M4 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%
10 149,830 20.4 1 hrs 10 mins
90.0%
9 134,847 18.4 1 hrs 18 mins 1 GPUs
80.0%
8 119,864 16.4 1 hrs 28 mins 2 GPUs
70.0%
7 104,881 14.3 1 hrs 41 mins 3 GPUs
60.0%
6 89,898 12.3 1 hrs 57 mins 4 GPUs
50.0%
5 74,915 10.2 2 hrs 21 mins 5 GPUs
40.0%
4 59,932 8.2 2 hrs 56 mins 6 GPUs
30.0%
3 44,949 6.1 3 hrs 55 mins 7 GPUs
20.0%
2 29,966 4.1 5 hrs 52 mins 8 GPUs
10.0%
1 14,983 2.0 11 hrs 44 mins

ACTIVE CPU RESEARCH PROJECTS BETA

The following data is the average PPD values for Apple M4 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 @ 10 LP
PPD RANK %
Of Best PPD
1 18240 Force-Field-Protein-Dynamics 27,063 270,630
100.0%
2 12417 influenza 26,943 269,430
99.6%
3 12480 Cyclic-Tetrapeptide-Synthesis 25,054 250,540
92.6%
4 12466 CTP-Synthesis-Stereochemistry 24,860 248,600
91.9%
5 12481 Cyclic-Tetrapeptide-Synthesis 22,401 224,010
82.8%
6 12467 Cyclic-Tetrapeptide-Synthesis 21,592 215,920
79.8%
7 18212 alzheimers 19,775 197,750
73.1%
8 12468 Cyclic-Tetrapeptide-Synthesis 19,289 192,890
71.3%
9 12469 Cyclic-Tetrapeptide-Synthesis 18,751 187,510
69.3%
10 16959 cancer 14,412 144,120
53.3%
11 12487 alzheimers 13,996 139,960
51.7%
12 16969 cancer 13,554 135,540
50.1%
13 12463 cancer 10,573 105,730
39.1%
14 12462 cancer 7,779 77,790
28.7%
15 18803 cancer 6,714 67,140
24.8%
16 12461 Cyclic-Tetrapeptide-Synthesis
0.0%