Rainmeter using 5% CPU - significant?

[sling-shot]

My Ryzen 3 2200G based desktop with Windows 10 Professional and Rainmeter desktop widgets shows that Rainmeter itself uses 5 - 7% of CPU. Task manager corroborates this. This is while the desktop is idle.

Is that something to be concerned about? Exiting Rainmeter seems to improve performance while gaming. I am not sure about it because the actual performance varies depending on game and situation.

 

[meetdilip]

Rainmeter used to be heavy on resources. I guess it still is with all those bells and whistles.

 

[sling-shot]

Is there anything else less intensive but with similar widgets?

 

[Flash]

Is there anything else less intensive but with similar widgets?

XWidget and XLaunchpad Homepage - Powerful Widget Engine with visual widget editor.

 

[sling-shot]

Seems good. Not open source though.