| Intel lead-free technology
Plug and play specification support
Integrated media access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY)
Interrupt moderation: Delivers increased performance while significantly reducing CPU utilization
Compatible with x4, x8, and x16 full-height PCI Express slots
Bus width: x4 lane PCI Express operable in x4, x8, x16 slots
Bus speed (x4, encoded rate): 10 Gbps uni-directional; 20 Gbps bi-directional
EEPROM-SPI and single EEPROM support
Load balancing on multiple CPUs:
Increases performance on multi-processor systems by efficiently balancing network loads across CPU cores when used with Receive-Side Scaling from Microsoft or Scalable I/O on Linux
Advanced Software Features:
Adapter fault tolerance (AFT)
Switch fault tolerance (SFT)
Adaptive load balancing (ALB)
Fast EtherChannel (FEC)
Gigabit EtherChannel (GEC)
Teaming support: Scales up to 4 connections
Multiple teams: Supports separate teams, maximum
Test switch configuration
PCIe Hot Plug/Active peripheral component interconnect (PCI) | 
