SHORT Branch prediction miss rate/ratio EVENTSET PMC0 INST_RETIRED PMC1 CPU_CYCLES PMC2 BR_PRED PMC3 BR_MIS_PRED PMC4 INST_SPEC METRICS Runtime (RDTSC) [s] time Clock [MHz] 1.E-06*PMC1/time CPI PMC1/PMC0 Branch rate PMC2/PMC0 Branch misprediction rate PMC3/PMC0 Branch misprediction ratio PMC3/(PMC2+PMC3) Instructions per branch PMC0/(PMC2+PMC3) LONG Formulas: CPI = CPU_CYCLES/INST_RETIRED Branch rate = BR_PRED/INST_RETIRED Branch misprediction rate = BR_MIS_PRED/INST_RETIRED Branch misprediction ratio = BR_MIS_PRED/(BR_PRED+BR_MIS_PRED) Instructions per branch = INSTR_RETIRED_ANY/(BR_PRED+BR_MIS_PRED) - The rates state how often in average a branch or a mispredicted branch occured per instruction retired in total. The Branch misprediction ratio sets directly into relation what ratio of all branch instruction where mispredicted. Instructions per branch is 1/Branch rate.