u/One_Two_2229

I am trying to find a cloud GPU provider offering a Windows VM in Europe, ideally EU / UK / Nordics, for 3D work.

My primary target is:

- NVIDIA RTX 5090, 32 GB VRAM, Windows

Acceptable alternative:

- NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation, 48 GB VRAM, Windows

My hard requirement is that the GPU must run in WDDM mode, or otherwise expose DirectX / D3D11 / D3D12 properly inside the guest OS.

TCC-only data center GPU setups are not usable for my workload.

My use case includes:

- Autodesk Maya 2026

- Arnold / MtoA

- Unreal Engine 5

- other DirectX-dependent 3D tools

For RTX 5090 this is usually less of a concern because it is consumer-class and normally WDDM by default.

For RTX 6000 Ada, I need explicit confirmation that on the provider’s Windows image:

- WDDM is available

- DirectX works in-guest

- this is not blocked by vGPU licensing or compute-only policy

I am specifically looking for providers that can confirm:

1. Europe data center location

2. exact GPU SKU

3. Windows image options

4. WDDM / DirectX availability in the guest OS

5. hourly pricing

6. billing increment

7. whether the setup is bare metal passthrough, vGPU, or RTX vWS

I already know the usual names like TensorDock, Paperspace, RunPod, Vast.ai, Lambda, CoreWeave, AWS, Azure, and GCP, so I would especially appreciate lesser-known providers.

If you have first-hand experience, it would really help if you could share:

- provider name

- region / city

- exact Windows image used

- output of nvidia-smi -q showing WDDM vs TCC

- whether dxdiag sees the NVIDIA GPU

- whether D3D11 / D3D12 works

- whether Maya / Arnold / UE5 actually run properly over RDP / Parsec / NICE DCV / similar

Even a “this provider looked promising but turned out to be compute-only” reply would be useful.

Thanks.