NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti Video Card Review

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is a first person shooter based around the destruction of a nuclear power plant. It uses the XRAY 1.6 Engine, features DirectX 11 support, and it includes real-time GPU tessellation. The maps feature photo realistic scenes of the region it is made to represent.

Benchmark Settings
Preset Ultra
Renderer Enhanced Full Dynamic Lighting DirectX 11
MSAA 4x
MSAA for A-tested object DX10 Style
SSAO Default
SSAO Quality High
Tessellation Enabled
Test SunShafts

This was a fun benchmark to watch since it basically does a series of flybys over the terrain in different lighting and weather conditions.  We choose to use the SunShafts test for these results since it not only looked the best but also taxed the cards the most.

Results of this test mimic the others but we suspect that some driver majik (or lack there of) is the reason why the GTX 780 Ti doesn't post a higher score.  It is a little known fact that the driver does make the card and in some situations (read: games) the drivers can be optimized to allow the game to run faster and have better graphics.  

So, in reality the hardware is only half of the story and why keeping your drivers up to date is rather important.