RTX 5070 Drops to $600.00 (Oct 26)

The available snapshots for the week ending October 26, 2025 covered 6 of seven daily pulls, from October 21 through October 26, with 3,845 to 3,950 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 down from $629.99 to $600.00 for 12GB, while RX 9070 XT held at $680.99 for 16GB. By the final snapshot, RTX 5070 was $80.99 cheaper than RX 9070 XT.

The memory math kept the trade-off honest: RTX 5070 ended the week at $50.00 per GB, while RX 9070 XT ended at $42.56 per GB. NVIDIA had the lower final checkout price by $80.99, 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 $1,570.80 to $1,643.80, while the cheapest new RTX 5090 listings ranged from $4,058.70 to $4,265.60. 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 RTX 5070 improved the most on upfront price, but the RX 9070 XT still made sense for buyers who wanted 16GB and better memory value.