Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE NIC will hit motherboards soon
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Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE NIC will hit motherboards soon
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Re: Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE NIC will hit motherboards soon
#2> and while the company still sells the AQC107 silicon, it is quite expensive for motherboard integration, and add-on cards are, by definitio,n more expensive than integrated solutions.
Not sure what a 10GbE motherboard would cost today, but in 2022 I bought ASUS ProArt X570 (1x 10GbE + 1x 2.5GbE) for ~400 EUR, and just the other day I got the Asus XG-C100C (1x 10GbE) network adapter for another machine for ~80 EUR. Would the price difference between a motherboard today with the only difference being with/without a 10GbE NIC be more than say 100 EUR? I feel like they'd use the 10GbE NIC to raise the prices more when it's integrated into the motherboard, than what you can get when purchasing it as a separate addon. But maybe it's just me being overly cynical.
Re: Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE NIC will hit motherboards soon
#3Oh my god can you please just use normal SFP+ already.
Re: Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE NIC will hit motherboards soon
#4I don’t understand this article! PC motherboards with 10GbE ports have existed for years in premium offerings? Is this notably cheaper than the current chip they use?
pcpartpicker shows ~89 such boards, with mid-high level pricing: https://pcpartpicker.com/products/motherboard/#c0=2x10000-2x...
Re: Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE NIC will hit motherboards soon
#5Oh my god can you please just use normal SFP+ already.
What would be the benefit of using SFP+ on mainstream consumer motherboards? It would further increase the effective price to consumers as they'd have to purchase a separate transceiver, which are bulkier and might overly crowd an already compact I/O shield layout.
Re: Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE NIC will hit motherboards soon
#6What kind of cables do you need to connect to your 10Gb switch/router? Do you need glassfiber?
Re: Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE NIC will hit motherboards soon
#7What kind of cables do you need to connect to your 10Gb switch/router? Do you need glassfiber?
You can run 10GbE over twister pair copper.
Re: Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE NIC will hit motherboards soon
#8Oh my god can you please just use normal SFP+ already.
They also show a SFP+ variant
https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/05/22/realtek-rtl8127-rtl8...
Re: Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE NIC will hit motherboards soon
#9> and while the company still sells the AQC107 silicon, it is quite expensive for motherboard integration, and add-on cards are, by definitio,n more expensive than integrated solutions. Not sure what a 10GbE motherboard would cost today, but in 2022 I bought ASUS ProArt X570 (1x 10GbE + 1x 2.5GbE) for ~400 EUR, and just the other day I got the Asus XG-C100C (1x 10GbE) network adapter for another machine for ~80 EUR.…
Aside from the cost, ACQ107 is not very reliable in my experience. I have one that randomly drops the connection every now and then, even at sub-10Gbps speeds. Switching to a different NIC makes everything rock stable.
Re: Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE NIC will hit motherboards soon
#10Oh my god can you please just use normal SFP+ already.
What would be the benefit of using SFP+ on mainstream consumer motherboards? It would further increase the effective price to consumers as they'd have to purchase a separate transceiver, which are bulkier and might overly crowd an already compact I/O shield layout.
Hopefully a cheap transceiver chip will change this, too, but all-copper 10GbE switches are stupid expensive.