Since the VAAPI patch is originally taken from Arch Linux, it might be worth while to check if they had any issues with it on Chromium 79. Looking at the comments and changes in https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chromium-vaapi it looks like they did, and they have fixed those issues by updating the patches and requiring a specially patched libva-vdpau-driver for Nvidia GPUs.
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