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Jetson AGX Orin Industrial VP9 decode capacity

Dataset 2026-09-07 · verified 2026-09-07 · last updated September 2026

NVIDIA rates the Jetson AGX Orin Industrial NVDEC at 1 × 8K30 · 3 × 4K60 · 6 × 4K30 · 9 × 1080p60 · 19 × 1080p30 VP9 (1260 MP/s), in every power mode.

Verbatim datasheet figures with their source. Anything not in the table below is an EdgeAIStack estimate and is labelled as such.

Published decode points (class A)

Jetson AGX Orin Industrial: 2 NVDEC instances, VP9 profiles Profile 0, Profile 2, 8-bit 4:2:0 unless the datasheet says otherwise. Stream counts are per module.

ProfilePixels @ fpsStreams (module)MP/s per streamStreams × MP/sEvidence
8K307680×4320 @ 301995.3995A datasheet
4K603840×2160 @ 603497.71,493A datasheet
4K303840×2160 @ 306248.81,493A datasheet
1080p601920×1080 @ 609124.41,120A datasheet
1080p301920×1080 @ 301962.21,182A datasheet
Rated throughput (up to)1,260 MP/sA datasheet

Source

  • NVIDIA · DS-10662-001 v1.8 §4.5 Multi-Standard Video Decoder, Table 4-1 (JAOi) · verified 2026-09-07 · Jetson AGX Orin Series Modules Data Sheet · class A
    “VP9 Profile 0, Profile 2 8K30 (1) | 4K60 (3) | 4K30 (6) | 1080p60 (9) | 1080p30 (19) 1260 MPix/s 210”

v1.8 dated September 2025. Separate tables per SKU (32GB, 64GB, Industrial).

Between the published points (class D)

Camera profiles NVIDIA does not print are estimated by comparing the pixel rate against the rated 1260 MP/s: max streams = ⌊1260 ÷ (width × height × fps ÷ 10⁶)⌋. These are EdgeAIStack numbers, not NVIDIA's; they assume roughly linear NVDEC throughput inside the published range and are not asserted outside it. Rows that coincide with a published point show the datasheet count instead.

ProfilePixels @ fpsMP/s per streamMax streams (est.)EvidenceFull pipeline
720p301280×720 @ 3027.645D pixel-rate
1080p151920×1080 @ 1531.140D pixel-rate
1080p201920×1080 @ 2041.530D pixel-rate
1080p251920×1080 @ 2551.824D pixel-rate
1440p152560×1440 @ 1555.322D pixel-rate
1440p202560×1440 @ 2073.717D pixel-rate
1440p302560×1440 @ 30110.611D pixel-rate
4K153840×2160 @ 15124.410D pixel-rate
4K203840×2160 @ 20165.97D pixel-rate
4K253840×2160 @ 25207.46D pixel-rate

Power mode

NVDEC/NVENC maximum clock is the same in every nvpmodel power preset on Orin, so decode capacity does not change with the power mode.

Source

Encode

The datasheet publishes no hardware VP9 encode row for Jetson AGX Orin Industrial. Published encoder rows: H.264, H.265, AV1.

What these numbers do and do not cover

  • Hardware limit, not software. JetPack, DeepStream, GStreamer or Frigate may cap concurrent decoder sessions below the datasheet count.
  • Decode in isolation. Simultaneous NVENC use shares memory bandwidth; expect real decode + encode totals below the sum of the two tables.
  • Profile and chroma. Counts are for Profile 0, Profile 2 at 8-bit 4:2:0; 4:4:4 halves throughput (datasheet note); Main10 shares the row.
  • Decode is rarely the bottleneck. Inference, memory and preprocessing usually fail first on a detection pipeline; run the full pipeline check for your workload.
  • Method. Formulas, evidence classes and the confidence rule are on the methodology page.

Other codecs on this module

VP9 on other modules

Is decode really the limit?

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