I even (quite a few years ago) successfully ran an older version of Minecraft on a laptop released in 2003. That had a Radeon 9000 graphics with a whole 32MB of VRAM.

And yes, it was playable with IIRC around 20fps, with minimum settings and a performance-tweaking mod (Optifine?). I played it a lot, since that laptop was all I had.

Even 0ad (the open source RTS game) was playable on that.

That was maybe in 2013 or something like that, so the machine was "only" 10 years old.

Minecraft Java is notorious for running like absolute dogpoop regardless of the hardware. Most people play with optifine or whatever the current optimisation mod is

Raw performance wise yes. Driver wise… I think we can expect instability now game ready drivers are past EoL.

You mean even a 1060 Ti...

Can confirm that a GT1030 can run Minecraft on Linux extremely well, but maybe you want to hang back from the really high-end shaders.

A 1080 TI is a relatively good card these days still. With the insane GPU drought and price hikes that there have been for literally years.

Also MC is usually more CPU bound than GPU bound