SHORT Branch prediction miss rate/ratio EVENTSET FIXC0 INSTR_RETIRED_ANY FIXC1 CPU_CLK_UNHALTED_CORE PMC0 BR_INST_RETIRED_ANY PMC1 BR_INST_RETIRED_MISPRED METRICS Runtime (RDTSC) [s] time Runtime unhalted [s] FIXC1*inverseClock CPI FIXC1/FIXC0 Branch rate PMC0/FIXC0 Branch misprediction rate PMC1/FIXC0 Branch misprediction ratio PMC1/PMC0 Instructions per branch FIXC0/PMC0 LONG Formulas: Branch rate = BR_INST_RETIRED_ANY/INSTR_RETIRED_ANY Branch misprediction rate = BR_INST_RETIRED_MISPRED/INSTR_RETIRED_ANY Branch misprediction ratio = BR_INST_RETIRED_MISPRED/BR_INST_RETIRED_ANY Instructions per branch = INSTR_RETIRED_ANY/BR_INST_RETIRED_ANY - The rates state how often on average a branch or a mispredicted branch occurred 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.