Added an initial benchmark for Xesktop using their 10x Nvidia 1080Ti GPU machines. I am actually really impressed by how it performs, it renders faster than most render farm options and is much cheaper as well.
Wow those results are really impressive!
- You connect to the PC over remote desktop connection, this is not the best protocol for pc streaming but I found the image quality was very reasonable and there was very little lag as well.
For a better experience, you could try using Parsec to connect to the machine, I have heard other people have good experiences with this for for example connecting to a pc at home for using Blender. It is designed for playing games and has really low lag.
Any reason you prefer to use paperstreet over Xesktop @blenderrocket? Seems to me Xesktop is both cheeper and faster, but maybe having to use RDP is a deal breaker?
I started using Paperspace when I only had a laptop without a GPU available which would lag horribly when modelling anything slightly complex in Blender, so I actually ran Blender on Paperspace all the time that I used it. Ever since I have moved to a pc powerful enough to run Blender locally, I have kept using it mostly for rendering animations and longer cycles renders. Compared to Xesktop it has a very good streaming protocol, Blender works without any issues and it starts up very fast. Also the low per hour cost means I have to worry less about keeping it running for too long, and my renders are almost never so complex that they need the power that Xesktop offers. However if you look at it solely as an alternative to renderfarms, Xesktop seems to beat Paperspace hands-down looking at your benchmark results.
Lastly I actually just found out about Xesktop yesterday as I was looking if there were any alternatives to Paperspace and Shadow available 