Im testing this in snapshot 19w09a (this is also for all versions above 1.13 and snapshots)

(I'm running with nvidia geforce 1030 and i3-8530k (4Ghz))

I would like to place a whole guardian farm with soulsand

As you can see in the screenshots I placed around 60 soulsand blocks and my fps drops to around 60, particles to almost 16000 and the game is very choppy when turning around

With particles on minimal I get around 1000 particles with 530fps

I think for bubbles there must be a limit in count so that we can place infinity soulsand or magma without a choppy game (and preferable with all particles on)

this way is not funny to create some fishing farm or killing drowned with magma bubbles etc in the vanilla game

I don't think that placing particles to minimal all the time for this issue is normal behaviour