I am running historical simulations on a program (metatrader 5).

I was running these on a VPS that has 3 cores. This was taking a while so I bought a new Asus laptop that has 14 cores (intel i9).

I was expecting the new laptop to be significantly faster (since it has more cores), but it seems to be only about twice as fast. See pics for side by side tests.

I’m considering returning the laptop but there will be a cost with doing that.

Questions:

1. Can I speed up the new laptop? (I’ve already put it in performance vs efficiency in the user settings)
2. what other other factors could be limiting the speed of these simulations?

Thanks for the help