RDP is indeed highly performant, but the experience may highly depends on the latency.
I'm working daily in a nanofabrication center and routinely RDP to workstations running Windows Server from computers with 12 years old i5 (which is supposed to be single purpose for tool billing). I wrote code with VSCode and Matlab, view GDS with KLayout, run ANSYS and COMSOL. Everything works so well even with all the 3D, despite of the ancientness of the terminal computer. However this depends on a decent LAN with a <1 ms ping delay (physical distance ~500 m)...
When working at home through VPN, the experience degraded to fluent but with seldomly noticeable latency. And when using the shitty public wifi at train station, then every keystroke take a noticeable time to echo...
I'm working daily in a nanofabrication center and routinely RDP to workstations running Windows Server from computers with 12 years old i5 (which is supposed to be single purpose for tool billing). I wrote code with VSCode and Matlab, view GDS with KLayout, run ANSYS and COMSOL. Everything works so well even with all the 3D, despite of the ancientness of the terminal computer. However this depends on a decent LAN with a <1 ms ping delay (physical distance ~500 m)...
When working at home through VPN, the experience degraded to fluent but with seldomly noticeable latency. And when using the shitty public wifi at train station, then every keystroke take a noticeable time to echo...