Does Riva tuner statistics server impact game performance?

Riva Tuner Statistics Server is a tool that allows us to see in real time the performance of a video game, plus the statistics of system use such as the CPU, GPU, RAM, etc., and it is even possible to see the operating temperatures while running a game.

Is it true that Riva Tuner Statistics Server (RTSS) affects gaming performance?

Riva Tuner Statistics Server is commonly used in conjunction with MSI Afterburner, a very convenient combo for performance measurement (and by way of overclocking the graphics card).

The Wccftech people have wanted to know if this active tool is really affecting the performance of a video game, especially on those Radeon graphics cards. There was speculation that RTSS (Riva Tuner Statistics Server) was affecting AMD graphics cards only. Let's see what the test results are.

For the tests, they have decided to use two graphics cards of the most used today, an RX 480 with 8GB of memory and the GTX 1060 with 6GB.

Riva Tuner Statistics Server and its real impact on AMD and Nvidia cards

As seen in the results, the performance impact for the GTX 1060 and RX 480 would seem to be minimal, although where it would be most affecting is the minimum FPS of some games on the RX 480, such as Shadow of Mordor, which happens 50 to 44 FPS minimum. But when we look at the average FPS, everything would stay pretty much the same on both cards and in all games.

The conclusions are that the impact is very minimal, entering the field of the 'margin of error'. What do you think? Have they had a major impact on performance by activating RTSS?

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