SHORT Branch prediction miss rate/ratio EVENTSET FIXC0 INSTR_RETIRED_ANY FIXC1 CPU_CLK_UNHALTED_CORE FIXC2 CPU_CLK_UNHALTED_REF PMC0 BR_INST_RETIRED_ALL_BRANCHES PMC1 BR_MISP_RETIRED_ALL_BRANCHES METRICS Runtime (RDTSC) [s] time Runtime unhalted [s] FIXC1*inverseClock Clock [MHz] 1.E-06*(FIXC1/FIXC2)/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_ALL_BRANCHES/INSTR_RETIRED_ANY Branch misprediction rate = BR_MISP_RETIRED_ALL_BRANCHES/INSTR_RETIRED_ANY Branch misprediction ratio = BR_MISP_RETIRED_ALL_BRANCHES/BR_INST_RETIRED_ALL_BRANCHES Instructions per branch = INSTR_RETIRED_ANY/BR_INST_RETIRED_ALL_BRANCHES - 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 ration of all branch instruction where mispredicted. Instructions per branch is 1/branch rate.