Poor performance of web app built with ArGIS API for JS on older hardware

[annahernandez99]

Problem
I've been developing a web application for the first time using the JS API. When testing the performance of the website, I've had perfectly snappy use on relatively new hardware (such as my Surface Laptop 3 8GB RAM, Chrome v88) but cripplingly slow use on somewhat older hardware (MacBook Pro 13" 2016 8GB RAM, MacBook Pro 15" 2014 8GB RAM, Dell Inspiron 15 5000 2017 8GB RAM, all running Chrome v88).

Link to web app in development:

https://dmarkbreiter.github.io/lau-interactive/ 

Troubleshooting
Considering how these "older" hardware configs aren't very old, the laggy performance is troubling. At first I thought it might be a basemap or feature service that was slowing down the application, but when I tested sample apps on the developer page for the API, I had equally if not slower performance.

Example apps linked below:

https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/sample-code/featurelayer-query/  https://esri.github.io/dot-density-legend/  https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/sea-ice/ 

The above apps work perfectly fine on my Surface Laptop 3, but absolutely limp along on the other tested hardware configs.

Question
Is this the expected behavior/performance of web applications built using the API?

If not, how can I make my application more performant on a variety of hardware configs? Even panning around a basemap feels and looks choppy on this hardware. Is this a known issue and if so, is there any workaround to ensure useable performance on a variety of hardware? djcontrollerhub

[dmarkbreiter]

The original post was asked by me here. I did not post this question. 

It would appear that the issue is with Esri's WebGl engine and it not working with the machine's graphics driver as evidenced by the following console warning on Chrome based browsers:

[esri.views.2d.engine.webgl.WebGLDriverTest] A problem was detected with your graphics driver. Your driver does not appear to honor sampler precision specifiers, which may result in rendering issues due to numerical instability. We recommend ensuring that your drivers have been updated to the latest version. Applying lowp sampler workaround. [0.0.0.0]

When the web apps linked in the question were tested on FireFox 86, they worked perfectly fine and without the warning above.

An answer to this question was posted by me on StackOverflow