The PHENIX experiment at RHIC has measured charged hadron yields at mid-rapidity over a wide range of transverse momentum (0.5 < p_T < 10 GeV / c) in Au + Au collisions at √s_NN = 200 GeV. The data are compared to π⁰ measurements from the same experiment. For both charged hadrons and neutral pions, the yields per nucleon-nucleon collision are significantly suppressed in central compared to peripheral and nucleon-nucleon collisions. The suppression sets in gradually and increases with increasing centrality of the collisions . Above 4-5 GeV / c in p_T, a constant and almost identical suppression of charged hadrons and π⁰’s is observed. The p_T spectra are compared to published spectra from Au + Au at √s_NN = 130 in terms of x_Tscaling. Central and peripheral π⁰ as well as peripheral charged spectra exhibit the same x_T scaling as observed in p + p data.