Provided are a method and apparatus for task scheduling based on hardware. The method for task scheduling in a scheduler accelerator based on hardware includes: managing task related information based on tasks in a system; updating the task related information in response to a request from a CPU; selecting a candidate task to be run next after a currently running task for each CPU on the basis of the updated task related information; and providing the selected candidate task to each CPU. The scheduler accelerator supports the method for task scheduling based on hardware.