PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0 x8 Exceptional low power adapters Network Virtualization offloads including Geneve VXLAN and NVGRE Intel Ethernet Flow Director for hardware-based application traffic steering Intel Data Plane Developer Kit (DPDK) optimized for efficient packet processing Excellent small packet performance for network appliances and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Intelligent offloads to enable high performance with Intel Xeon processor-based servers I/O virtualization innovations for maximum performance in a virtualized server