SHORT Ring Transfer bandwidth EVENTSET FIXC0 INSTR_RETIRED_ANY FIXC1 CPU_CLK_UNHALTED_CORE FIXC2 CPU_CLK_UNHALTED_REF SBOX0C0 RING_BL_USED_ANY SBOX1C0 RING_BL_USED_ANY SBOX2C0 RING_BL_USED_ANY SBOX3C0 RING_BL_USED_ANY METRICS Runtime (RDTSC) [s] time Runtime unhalted [s] FIXC1*inverseClock Clock [MHz] 1.E-06*(FIXC1/FIXC2)/inverseClock CPI FIXC1/FIXC0 Ring transfer bandwidth [MByte/s] 1.E-06*(SBOX0C0+SBOX1C0+SBOX2C0+SBOX3C0)*32/time Ring transfer data volume [GByte] 1.E-09*(SBOX0C0+SBOX1C0+SBOX2C0+SBOX3C0)*32 LONG Formulas: Ring transfer bandwidth [MByte/s] = 1.E-06*(SUM(SBOXxC0)*32)/time Ring transfer data volume [GByte] = 1.E-09*(SUM(SBOXxC0)*32) -- The SBOXes manage the transfer between the socket local ring(s). For micro architectures prior to Haswell, the SBOX and QBOX was similar as only a single ring was used. Haswell systems with a high core count assemble two rings that are connected through the SBOXes, the traffic between the sockets is handled by the QBOXes.