Intel X550-T2 Internal Ethernet 10000Mbit/S Card and Network Adapter - Network Cards and Adapters (Internal, Wired, Pci-E, Ethernet, 10000 MBit/S, Green, Silver)

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http://8thgen.pillarglobalsolutionsinc.swcontentsyndication.com/sw/swchannel/CustomerCenter/documents/19765/39003/Intel_Ethernet_Controller_X550_Product_Brief.pdf Direct testing of your network interface throughput capabilities can be done by using tools like: iperf*and Microsoft NTttcp*. You can configure these tools to use one or more streams. Enable Jumbo frames only if devices across the network support them and are configured to use the same frame size. When setting up Jumbo Frames on other network devices, be aware that different network devices calculate Jumbo Frame sizes differently. Some devices include the header information in the frame size while others do not. Intel®adapters do not include header information in the frame size. Assignment. You may not assign Your rights or obligations under this Agreement without Intel’s prior written consent. No third party will have any rights under this Agreement. Severability. If a court holds a provision of this Agreement unenforceable, the court will modify that part to the minimum extent necessary to make that part enforceable or, if necessary, to sever that part. The rest of the provision remains fully enforceable.

As I have limited access to different cards and hardware set ups, it has been difficult to make a comparison of performance. However, I found two posts that show some comparisons I wrestled with the idea setting up 10gig without a switch and ran into nothing but problems. Since you do have a switch, you should be ok using that. I'm using a 24 port 1gb/4port 10gb switch from Fiberstore and it has worked great so far. ( https://www.fs.com/products/72944.html) Enables adapters to generate or respond to flow control frames, which help regulate network traffic.Open Source Licenses. The Materials may include software subject to an open source license, including licenses recognized by the Open Source Initiative ( http://www.opensource.org). Nothing in this Agreement limits any rights under, or grants rights that supersede, the terms of any applicable open source software license.

Because the adapter hardware can complete data segmentation faster than operating system software, this feature can improve transmission performance. The adapter also uses fewer CPU resources. YES, the X550-T2 supports NBase-T cross-compatibility with ALMOST ALL IEEE 802.3bz devices/features, now enabled in Windows 10/11 drivers v26+ with NVM firmware v3.6+..NOTE: Intel admits EEE is unsupported on X550-T2 (despite saying its supported in outdated Docs) here: Sets the number of buffers used by the driver when copying data to the protocol memory. Increasing this value can enhance the receive performance, but also consumes system memory.