[Docs] Move quant supported hardware table to README (vllm-project#23663)

Signed-off-by: Harry Mellor <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Xiao Yu <[email protected]>

Author: hmellor

docs/features/quantization/README.md

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ Quantization trades off model precision for smaller memory footprint, allowing l
 
 Contents:
 
-- [Supported Hardware](supported_hardware.md)
 - [AutoAWQ](auto_awq.md)
 - [AutoRound](auto_round.md)
 - [BitsAndBytes](bnb.md)
@@ -19,3 +18,50 @@ Contents:
 - [AMD Quark](quark.md)
 - [Quantized KV Cache](quantized_kvcache.md)
 - [TorchAO](torchao.md)
+
+## Supported Hardware
+
+The table below shows the compatibility of various quantization implementations with different hardware platforms in vLLM:
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+| Implementation        | Volta   | Turing   | Ampere   | Ada   | Hopper   | AMD GPU   | Intel GPU   | Intel Gaudi | x86 CPU   | AWS Neuron   | Google TPU   |
+|-----------------------|---------|----------|----------|-------|----------|-----------|-------------|-------------|-----------|--------------|--------------|
+| AWQ                   | ❌      | ✅︎       | ✅︎       | ✅︎    | ✅︎       | ❌         | ✅︎          | ❌         | ✅︎        | ❌          | ❌           |
+| GPTQ                  | ✅︎      | ✅︎       | ✅︎       | ✅︎    | ✅︎       | ❌         | ✅︎          | ❌         | ✅︎        | ❌          | ❌           |
+| Marlin (GPTQ/AWQ/FP8) | ❌      | ❌       | ✅︎       | ✅︎    | ✅︎       | ❌         | ❌          | ❌         | ❌        | ❌          | ❌           |
+| INT8 (W8A8)           | ❌      | ✅︎       | ✅︎       | ✅︎    | ✅︎       | ❌         | ❌          | ❌         | ✅︎        | ✅︎          | ✅︎           |
+| FP8 (W8A8)            | ❌      | ❌       | ❌       | ✅︎    | ✅︎       | ✅︎         | ❌          | ❌         | ❌        | ✅︎          | ❌           |
+| BitBLAS               | ✅︎      | ✅       | ✅︎       | ✅︎    | ✅︎       | ❌         | ❌          | ❌         | ❌        | ❌          | ❌           |
+| BitBLAS (GPTQ)        | ❌      | ❌       | ✅︎       | ✅︎    | ✅︎       | ❌         | ❌          | ❌         | ❌        | ❌          | ❌           |
+| bitsandbytes          | ✅︎      | ✅︎       | ✅︎       | ✅︎    | ✅︎       | ❌         | ❌          | ❌         | ❌        | ❌          | ❌           |
+| DeepSpeedFP           | ✅︎      | ✅︎       | ✅︎       | ✅︎    | ✅︎       | ❌         | ❌          | ❌         | ❌        | ❌          | ❌           |
+| GGUF                  | ✅︎      | ✅︎       | ✅︎       | ✅︎    | ✅︎       | ✅︎         | ❌          | ❌         | ❌        | ❌          | ❌           |
+| INC (W8A8)            | ❌      | ❌       | ❌       | ❌    | ❌       | ❌         | ❌          | ✅︎         | ❌        | ❌          | ❌           |
+
+- Volta refers to SM 7.0, Turing to SM 7.5, Ampere to SM 8.0/8.6, Ada to SM 8.9, and Hopper to SM 9.0.
+- ✅︎ indicates that the quantization method is supported on the specified hardware.
+- ❌ indicates that the quantization method is not supported on the specified hardware.
+
+!!! note
+    This compatibility chart is subject to change as vLLM continues to evolve and expand its support for different hardware platforms and quantization methods.
+
+    For the most up-to-date information on hardware support and quantization methods, please refer to <gh-dir:vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization> or consult with the vLLM development team.

docs/features/quantization/bitblas.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ vLLM now supports [BitBLAS](https://github.com/microsoft/BitBLAS) for more effic
 !!! note
     Ensure your hardware supports the selected `dtype` (`torch.bfloat16` or `torch.float16`).
     Most recent NVIDIA GPUs support `float16`, while `bfloat16` is more common on newer architectures like Ampere or Hopper.
-    For details see [supported hardware](supported_hardware.md).
+    For details see [supported hardware](README.md#supported-hardware).
 
 Below are the steps to utilize BitBLAS with vLLM.