NVIDIA VDPAU Reference Benchmarks
To no major surprise, the Fermi and Kepler-based graphics cards did the best except when it came to the 1440x1080 VC-1 video decoding with VDPAU where the older GeForce 8/9 series hardware does much better than anything newer. To see how your NVIDIA VDPAU performance compares to the graphics cards in this article, using the Phoronix Test Suite simply run phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1206103-SU-NVIDIAVDP03.
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