RX 9070 XT Drops to $649.49 (Feb 22)

The week ending February 22, 2026 covered all seven daily pulls, with 3,274 to 3,919 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 $730.00 to $649.49 for 16GB. By the final snapshot, RX 9070 XT was $373.48 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 $40.59 per GB. AMD had the lower final checkout price by $373.48, 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 $1,600.00 to $1,600.00, while the cheapest new RTX 5090 listings ranged from $3,500.00 to $3,500.00. 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 was the standout in this source stream. It ended cheaper than the RTX 5070 while still offering the larger memory pool.