RTX 5070 Hits $629.99 (Oct 19)

The week ending October 19, 2025 covered all seven daily pulls, with 3,740 to 4,153 eBay listings per snapshot. These were listing-market snapshots, not a full retail shelf survey, so the useful signal is movement inside the same source stream.

RTX 5070 moved up from $599.99 to $629.99 for 12GB, while RX 9070 XT held at $680.99 for 16GB. By the final snapshot, RTX 5070 was $51.00 cheaper than RX 9070 XT.

The memory math kept the trade-off honest: RTX 5070 ended the week at $52.50 per GB, while RX 9070 XT ended at $42.56 per GB. NVIDIA had the lower final checkout price by $51.00, while AMD had the roomier 16GB card and the better memory-per-dollar number. Compare them directly before treating either side as automatic.

Higher up the stack, the cheapest new RTX 5080 listings ranged from $1,494.43 to $1,640.51, while the cheapest new RTX 5090 listings ranged from $4,077.90 to $4,276.00. Those halo floors were useful anchors, but noisy enough that the practical buyer decision still lived in the RTX 5070 versus RX 9070 XT lane.

My read for this week: the RX 9070 XT became easier to justify, but the RTX 5070 remained the lower-cost new listing.