| LAN controller | Intel® X550 |
| Number of VLANs | 4096 |
| PCI Card form factor | Half-height (low-profile) |
| Intel Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq) | Y |
| PCI-SIG* SR-IOV Capable | Y |
| On-chip QoS and Traffic Management | Y |
| Intel Flexible Port Partitioning | Y |
| Intelligent Offloads | Y |
| Intel Ethernet Power Management | Y |
| Fiber Channel over Ethernet | Y |
| Intel Data Direct I/O Technology | Y |
| Product color | Green |
| Connectivity technology | Wired |
| Host interface | PCI Express |
| Interface | Fiber |
| Internal | Y |
| Operating temperature (T-T) | 0 - 55 °C |
| Storage temperature (T-T) | -40 - 70 °C |
| Storage relative humidity (H-H) | 0 - 90 % |
| Data transfer rate | 8 GT/s |
| Linux operating systems supported | Y |
| Maximum data transfer rate | 40000 Mbit/s |
| Networking standards | IEEE 802.1Q, IEEE 802.1as, IEEE 802.1p, IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3ad |
| Cabling technology | 10GBase-T |
| Fiber ports quantity | 2 |
| VLAN tagging | Y |
| Ethernet interface type | 10 Gigabit Ethernet |
| Ethernet LAN data rates | 10000 Mbit/s |
| iSCSI support | Y |
| Server operating systems supported | Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 x64, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2 x64 |