Minecraft running really slow on a medium end laptop

I have a relatively good gaming laptop, acer nitro 5 radeon, yet minecraft is still running really bad. I average around 60 fps sometimes, and at times I go down to 1 or 2 fps. I have java installed correctly, drivers are up to date, and 4 gb ram allocated to minecraft with optifine. For some reason I still can't run it smoothly on 1.16. I don't know if this is an issue with my specs or an issue with the game, my friend has the same computer and runs it very smoothly for some reason.