RDPChoice was founded in late 2021 by a consortium of high-performance computing (HPC) systems administrators, low-latency network engineers, and algorithmic quantitative traders. For over a decade, remote infrastructure buyers—ranging from independent software engineers needing disposable Windows environments to Forex automated traders executing through broker bridges—have been forced to rely on deceptive provider marketing. Hosting vendors frequently advertise “High Performance NVMe SSDs” that turn out to be cheap consumer QLC flash throttled to 80 IOPS under sustained load, or “High-Speed vCPUs” running on heavily oversubscribed, 8-year-old Intel Xeon Broadwell silicon sharing cycles with 60 noisy neighbors.
Our institutional mission is clear: To build the world’s most rigorous, empirical, and completely transparent benchmark index for remote desktop (RDP), cloud virtual private servers (VPS), and GPU AI compute. We do not rely on subjective impressions or promotional press releases. Every single server audited in our database is procured anonymously, instrumented with our open-source telemetry suite, and subjected to thousands of synthetic stress cycles measuring single-core instruction throughput, random 4K NVMe queue-depth latency, and sub-millisecond network transit.
“If a server cannot sustain its advertised clock rate under 100% AVX-512 load, or if its storage latency spikes past 25ms during 4K random write saturation, it fails our audit—regardless of who operates it or what affiliate commission they offer.”
Unlike ordinary review sites running amateur speed tests from domestic home broadband connections, RDPChoice maintains dedicated bare-metal auditing testbeds colocated directly within the world’s three most critical financial and telecommunication internet exchange points (IXPs):
Colocated within Slough Trading Estate. Directly connected to London Internet Exchange (LINX) and ultra-low latency optical cross-connects serving LSE, BATS Chi-X, and major FX interbank liquidity pools (EBS, Currenex).
Colocated at 755 Secaucus Road. Direct dark fiber interconnect to CME Aurora, NASDAQ Carteret, and New York International Exchange (NYIIX) with sub-0.3ms local cross-connect latency.
Colocated at Kleyerstraße 90, directly adjacent to DE-CIX Frankfurt, the highest-traffic internet exchange in continental Europe. Probes Eurex derivative gateways and European cloud clusters.
Dedicated testbed dedicated to benchmarking rented cloud GPU instances against bare-metal baseline hardware. Audits BF16 tensor throughput, VRAM bandwidth, and inter-GPU NVLink interconnects.
PhD in Computer Science from Imperial College London specializing in hypervisor memory scheduling. Over 14 years architecting high-performance computing clusters and auditing KVM/Xen virtualization overhead. Oversees our automated synthetic testing pipeline and mathematical index weighting.
Former infrastructure reliability engineer at leading European cloud datacenters. Expert in Linux IO stack internals, Ceph block distribution, and FIO queue-depth profiling. Leads our 48-hour continuous disk degradation and SLC cache saturation audits.
High-frequency trading network engineer with a background in dark fiber optical routing and BGP path optimization across London, Frankfurt, and Chicago exchange routes. Directs our 720-hour ping stability and packet jitter monitoring engines.
To preserve absolute institutional credibility, our laboratory operates under four non-negotiable operational bylaws codified in our charter:
We categorically decline complimentary trial instances from hosting providers. Accepting free test nodes allows providers to whitelist accounts and route them to unloaded “golden hypervisors.”
All audited nodes are purchased under random pseudonym corporate accounts funded via rotating commercial prepaid cards or non-custodial cryptocurrency to guarantee standard production provisioning.
Our testing engineers have zero knowledge of affiliate commission structures or referral agreements. Benchmark scores are calculated programmatically from raw log files with no human override.
Every benchmark parameter, FIO configuration script, and Geekbench CLI flag used in our testing is fully published so that subscribers, system engineers, and providers can independently verify our data.