RX 9070 XT Drops to $588.00 (Dec 28)

The available snapshots for the week ending December 28, 2025 covered 5 of seven daily pulls, from December 22 through December 26, with 3,663 to 3,984 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 held at $1,022.97 for 12GB, while RX 9070 XT moved down from $649.49 to $588.00 for 16GB. By the final snapshot, RX 9070 XT was $434.97 cheaper than RTX 5070.

The memory math kept the trade-off honest: RTX 5070 ended the week at $85.25 per GB, while RX 9070 XT ended at $36.75 per GB. AMD had the lower final checkout price by $434.97, plus the roomier 16GB card and the better memory-per-dollar number. Treat that as a listing-market signal, not a universal retail verdict. Compare them directly before treating either side as automatic.

Higher up the stack, the cheapest new RTX 5080 listings ranged from $1,666.43 to $1,681.78, while the cheapest new RTX 5090 listings ranged from $2,931.99 to $2,931.99. 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 was the standout in this source stream. It ended cheaper than the RTX 5070 while still offering the larger memory pool.