Hi, I just tried this and did not manage to reproduce. I am getting roughly the same or better performance with the override and without it.
If you want to measure it, you can enable the fps counter for IR in devel/debug settings, but this will be helpful only if you are getting more than 1fps. ;)
If you can observe this, please post a sample scene, screenshots, etc, that would help us understand the issue better.
edit: or is this about the C4D version??