# Hardware Requirements

QAT_HW acceleration is supported on the platforms with the following QAT devices
* [Intel® QuickAssist 4xxx Series][1]
* [Intel® QuickAssist Adapter 8970][2]
* [Intel® QuickAssist Adapter 8960][3]
* [Intel® QuickAssist Adapter 8950][4]
* [Intel® Atom&trade; Processor C3000][5]

QAT_SW acceleration is supported in the platforms starting with [3rd Generation Intel&reg; Xeon&reg; Scalable Processors family][6] and later.

[1]:https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/processors/xeon.html
[2]:https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/125200/intel-quickassist-adapter-8970/downloads.html
[3]:https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/125199/intel-quickassist-adapter-8960/downloads.html
[4]:https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/80371/intel-communications-chipset-8950/specifications.html
[5]:https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/design/products-and-solutions/processors-and-chipsets/denverton/ns/atom-processor-c3000-series.html
[6]:https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/processors/xeon/3rd-gen-xeon-scalable-processors-brief.html
