I have tested on two laptops how well batocera is working and on the stationary PC with high/mid end GPU and 8gb of ram. First was the Acer E1 series, with nvidia GT 720m and 4 gbs of ram with I3.
Most of the games run with no issues, the only one that I have found did do well was Budakai tenkaichi 3 (but the Budokai 3 ran smoothly) was stutering a lot, menu worked fine untill we went to combat, combat was a tops 10 - 13 fps. Unplayable.
Second was Asus EEE PC 900, it had issues starting batocera, it just did not boot to the end was stuck and kind of loading with the underscore mark showing
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Third was station PC with gigabyte RX580 GPU, all games ran smoothly and will run smoothly for sure.