AMD has published graphical firepower for its Radeon RX 6000 series, but a leaked benchmark reveals how the RX 6800 beats the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070.

The leak, which shows the RX 6800 scoring 16,775 on the 3DMark TimeSpy benchmark, comes courtesy of a Twitter user named PJ, an editor and tester at PC-centric publication Uniko's Hardware. We don't know much about the leaker, so we have to take this with a grain of salt, but according to TechRadar, this score is 23% ahead of the RTX 3070.

In tests conducted by HotHardware and Guru3D, the RTX 3070's TimeSpy scores were 12,864 and 13,622, respectively, which is more than the Radeon RX 6800, at least in synthetic benchmarks.

In this leak, the RX 6800 was tested on a machine with an AMD Ryzen 5 3500X. It is unclear to what extent this affects the benchmark results, and we have yet to see a benchmark that combines an RDNA 2-based Radeon GPU with an Intel processor.

Nevertheless, even though the Big Navi, the Radeon RX 6900 XT and Radeon RX 6800 XT, are in the limelight, the $549 Radeon RX 6800 shows that it can be a very powerful graphics card. [At the high end, AMD's GPUs are clearly cheaper than Nvidia's GPUs. And we have yet to see AMD pit its new Radeon RX 6000 cards against the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3000 series in a ray-tracing test. [Because] anyone planning to build a new gaming PC now has a choice of powerful and attractive graphics cards to choose from. And this new competition should result in more competitive graphics cards being released from both AMD and Nvidia.