Powering Sub Micro-Second Latency Data Transfers

AMD Solarflare X4 Ethernet adapters are designed for high-performance electronic trading environments. Built for the speed of modern markets, AMD Solarflare Ethernet adapters enable ultra-low latency and real-time telemetry, empowering high-frequency trading, risk analytics, and financial data flows with precision, scale and confidence.

AMD Solarflare ™ X4542 Ethernet Adapter
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Improving Performance Over Product Generations

AMD Solarflare™ Generational Latency Improvements1

  •  >320ns improvement over X2
  • >200ns improvement over X3
  •  Reduced Latency and Backwards compatibility

AMD EPYC™ Processors and AMD Solarflare™ Ethernet Adapters Power Low-Latency Networking2

  • Outstanding small packet performance in server-class CPUs
  • SDCI on AMD EPYC provides improved application latency.
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Continuing to Raise the Bar with Robust Performance

AMD Solarflare ™ X4542 Ethernet Adapter

X4542-PLUS | Dual QSFP

  •  Product Overview
    • Dual Port at 40/50/100 GbE
    • Four Ports at 1/10/25 GbE
    • Form Factor: Half height, half length
    • PCIe® Interface: Gen5 x8, PCIe CEM 5.0 compliant

AMD Solarflare™ X4522 Ethernet Adapter

X4522-PLUS | Dual SFP

  • Product Overview
    • Dual Ports at 1/10/25/50 GbE
    • Form Factor: Half height, half length.
    • PCIe® Interface: Gen5 x8, PCIe CEM 5.0 compliant
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Software

AMD Solarflare™ Onload™ Software

For data centers, Onload™ application acceleration software can dramatically accelerate and scale network-intensive workloads such as in-memory databases, software load balancers, and web servers.

In electronic trading environments, Onload software’s kernel bypass application acceleration enables amazing small packet performance with outstanding hardware latency.

AMD Solarflare™ Enterprise Service and Support

AMD Solarflare™ Enterprise Service and Support (ESS) offers enterprise-class support services, including service level agreements (SLAs). 

ESS provides two service levels, Standard and Premium, for a broad range of customers, from small to multi-national corporations with mission-critical applications.

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Footnotes
  1. 9xx5-251: Solarflare Generational latency progression: AMD Internal Testing as of 9/15/2025. Workload config: Onload benchmarking tool measuring Latency for payload ranging from 0B to 648B in ns. System Config: 2 Supermicro systems consists of 1 AMD EPYC 9575F (64C, 12x 32GB DDR5-6400, Max speed of 5GHz), Ubuntu 25.04 with kernel 6.14-23, Custom BIOS version 5.35 (pre-release), OS configured with AMDLL profile and BIOS configured for low latency) with AMD Solarflare X4542 (bundle 1.0.3.2 and bootloader 1.0.17.0). AMD Solarflare X2522 (bundle 8.5.2.1000); AMD Alveo X3522 (bundle 1. 17.7.30). Release Candidate version of Onload is used (https://github.com/Xilinx-CNS/onload/commit/0395821bb0685a3019018b3a9b45c4f30915146f). Driver version 6.6.1.1005. AMD Low Latency Tuning guide available at https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/epyc-technical-docs/white-papers/58649_amd-epyc-tg-low-latency.pdf. Average 0 to 648B Latency comparison compared to X4: X3 is 1.27X (27.2%) higher and X2 is 1.43X (42.9%) higher latency. 4B latency comparison compared to X4: X3 is 1.35X (34.9%) higher and X2 is 1.55X (55.5%%) higher latency.  

  2. 9xx5-252: X4 latency across platforms: AMD Internal Testing as of 9/15/2025. Workload config: Onload benchmarking tool measuring Latency for payload ranging from 0B to 648B in ns. System Config: 2 Supermicro systems consists of one AMD EPYC 9575F (64C, 12x 32GB DDR5-6400, Max speed of 5GHz), Ubuntu 25.04 with kernel 6.14-23, Custom BIOS version 5.35 (pre-release), OS configured with AMDLL profile and BIOS configured for low latency) with AMD Solarflare X4542 (bundle 1.0.3.2 and bootloader 1.0.17.0). Release candidate version of onload (https://github.com/Xilinx-CNS/onload/commit/0395821bb0685a3019018b3a9b45c4f30915146f). Driver version 6.1.1.1005. AMD Solarflare X4542 (bundle 1.0.3.2 and bootloader 1.0.17.0) AMD Low Latency Tuning guide available at https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/epyc-technical-docs/white-papers/58649_amd-epyc-tg-low-latency.pdf System config: 2 Supermicro systems consists of one AMD EPYC 4564P (AS -1015A-MT - 16C, up to 5GHz, 48GB memory). Driver version 6.1.1.1005, Custom BIOS version dated 8/30/24, kernel version 5.14.0-503. OS RHEL 9.4. AMD Solarflare X4542 (bundle 1.0.3.2 and bootloader 1.0.17.0) Driver version 6.1.1.1009 System config: 2 Dell R760 with one Intel Xeon 6534 (8 Core, 4.2GHz, 128GB, ), bios version 2.2.4, Ubuntu 25.04 with kernel 6.14.0-23, AMD Solarflare X4542 (bundle 1.0.3.2 and bootloader 1.0.17.0) driver version 6.1.1.1009, 2 NUMA nodes, 4B Payload size AMD Solarflare X4542 adapter installed on 2x 1P Intel Xeon 6534 based Supermicro system produced higher latency by 1.04X (4% higher) (23.7ns) compared to 2x 1P 9575F based Supermicro system AMD Solarflare X4542 adapter installed on 2x 1P EPYC 4564P based Supermicro system produced reduced latency by 0.91X (9% lower) (54ns) compared to 2x 1P 9575F based Supermicro system 0 to 648B Payload size AMD Solarflare X4542 adapter installed on 2x 1P Intel Xeon 6534 based Supermicro system produced lower latency by 1.02X (13ns) (1.6%) compared to 2x 1P 9575F based Supermicro system AMD Solarflare X4542 adapter installed on 2x 1P EPYC 4564P based Supermicro system produced lower latency by 1.07X (52ns) (6.7%) compared to 2x 1P 9575F based Supermicro system