Technologies for scalable packet reception and transmission include a network device. The network device is to establish a ring that is defined as a circular buffer and includes a plurality of slots to store entries representative of packets. The network device is also to generate and assign receive descriptors to the slots in the ring. Each receive descriptor includes a pointer to a corresponding memory buffer to store packet data. The network device is further to determine whether the NIC has received one or more packets and copy, with direct memory access (DMA) and in response to a determination that the NIC has received one or more packets, packet data of the received one or more packets from the NIC to the memory buffers associated with the receive descriptors assigned to the slots in the ring.