It’s been a while since I worked in protein folding and tried folding@home, but IIRC the difference between GPUs and CPUs was at about the scale we see in machine learning, something like 20x to 200x.
That makes the usefulness of CPUs for this purpose questionable—you might be contributing more to that other disaster facing humanity than alleviating the current one.
That makes the usefulness of CPUs for this purpose questionable—you might be contributing more to that other disaster facing humanity than alleviating the current one.