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For several years, the exclusion of Apple Silicon iGPUs from the Folding@home whitelist has been justified by the claim that macOS lacks stable OpenCL support and that the M-series chips cannot handle the high-precision FP64 math required for scientific folding. As of early 2026, these technical exc...

[/quote] FP8 is so outdated. Everyone knows FP4 is most important :D [/quote] Haha, very true! While the AI PR teams are racing to 0-bit precision, we're still over here demanding those solid 64-bit floating points. I'm eager to see if the Xe3 architecture finally breaks the 'iGPU curse' with its na...

Thanks for the feedback.

I'll provide the PCI ID as soon as the hardware arrives in early February so we can test the folding stability.

I'm also looking forward to seeing those official developer notes to confirm exactly how the Xe Vector Engine handles FP64 in hardware.

You still haven't posted any link to any official Intel statements on this. Interpreting those statements depend a lot on who is making them and the exact wording. https://newsroom.intel.com/client-computing/ces-2026-intel-core-ultra-series-3-debut-first-built-on-intel-18a?hl= https://wccftech.com/...

No no, confusion is coming purely from Intel :) While their driver team is doing wonderful things, the rest of them are just talking for the sake of talking. They rarely distinguish between hardware and software emulation. They just state supported and leave it at that muziqaz, you’re 100% right to...

Do you havre a link to that official confirmation? I do know when originally announced the Xe2 Battlemage architecture it was going to have two series of chips - the Xe2-LPG for iGPUs and Xe2-HPG. Lunar Lake processors shipped with Xe2-SPG chips for their iGPUs and do not support FP64, the discrete...

Just to clear up the confusion regarding FP64 on the iGPU—Intel has officially confirmed that the Xe3 architecture in Panther Lake (Core Ultra Series 3) does have native hardware FP64 support. It is no longer emulated in software as it was in the older Xe-LP units. Since Xe3 is a direct derivative o...

Does it support FP64? The Arc B390 is a different beast than the old Xe-LP/Gen 12 stuff where Intel basically disabled hardware FP64. Since Panther Lake's Xe3 architecture is part of the Battlemage family, hardware-level FP64 is definitely back. It's not at "pro-grade" ratios like 1:2, bu...

With the release of Intel Core Ultra Series 3 (Panther Lake), I am requesting the addition of the new Xe3 integrated graphics to the official whitelist. This architecture represents a significant jump in compute density on the 18A process, with the top-tier Ultra X9 388H featuring 12 Xe-cores. Early...

This might be an unpopular opinion, but as much as folding uses compute power for a good cause, the combined co2 emissions from folding are also immense! Some suggestions on how to make folding more efficienct, to reduce carbon emissions, lower energy prices, and reduce foreign energy dependency: Us...

Ok, thanks for the response.

ChatGPT just told me, that on Mac you can change the WU size you're getting by going to library/application support/FAHClient, and then opening and editing the config.xml file.

But cannot find a FAHClient folder in Application Support.

Is this not possible anymore, and what about on Windows?

How is the Folding@Home team planning to improve the FAH reputation, and make the project reach more new potential contributors? By reputation I mean, that many people don't know or even wanna believe, that volunteer computing projects are possivle, and in many online groups where I've shared the pr...

calxalot wrote: ↑Sun Aug 24, 2025 10:31 pm Did you switch to the Linux arm build?

I could, but I want this to be plug and play easy to use, otherwise It's not worth it.

Ncard00 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 23, 2025 1:31 pm Now I'm not getting any work on my snapdragon x plus laptop, hope somebody can help me out

Update, now getting work, but only 50% CPU utilization, why? ALl cores are enabled in settings.