Quantum computers present a unique opportunity to simulate quantum phenomena efficiently and its implied that quantum computers will be able to simulate quantum chemistry problems more efficiently than classical computers. This global search is very difficult, but by using Ising machines (quantum annealers) the ground state energy can be reliably found. We show that a quantum annealer accelerates the calculation by reducing the number of optimization steps and thus enabling a faster convergence to the ground state. This has important implications for finding the true optimized molecular states of excited states or complex ground states.