| Cable Type | QSFP+ Direct Attach Twinaxial Cabling up to 10m |
| Ethernet adapter ARK ID | 83966 |
| Product series | Intel Converged XL710 |
| Status | Launched |
| Product family | Intel 10 Gigabit server adapter |
| Product codename | Fortville |
| LAN controller | Intel® XL710 |
| Intel Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq) | Yes |
| PCI-SIG* SR-IOV Capable | Yes |
| On-chip QoS and Traffic Management | Yes |
| Intel Flexible Port Partitioning | Yes |
| Intelligent Offloads | Yes |
| iWARP/RDMA | No |
| Fiber Channel over Ethernet | No |
| Intel Data Direct I/O Technology | Yes |
| Compliance certificates | RoHS |
| Sustainability certificates | RoHS |
| Connectivity technology | Wired |
| Host interface | PCI Express |
| Interface | Fiber |
| Internal | Yes |
| Operating temperature (T-T) | 0 - 55 °C |
| Storage temperature (T-T) | -40 - 70 °C |
| Storage relative humidity (H-H) | 0 - 90 % |
| Product type | 13 |
| Data transfer rate | 8 GT/s |
| Linux operating systems supported | Yes |
| Compatible operating systems | intel.com/support/EthernetOS |
| Maximum data transfer rate | 40000 Mbit/s |
| Interface type | PCIe v3.0 (8.0 GT/s) |
| Cabling technology | 10GBase-T |
| Fiber ports quantity | 1 |
| Networking standards | IEEE 802.1Q, IEEE 802.1as, IEEE 802.1p, IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3ad |
| Ethernet interface type | 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 40 Gigabit Ethernet |
| Ethernet LAN data rates | 10000,40000 Mbit/s |
| Server operating systems supported | Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 x64, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2 x64 |