RX 9070 XT Hits $735.00 (Mar 1)

The week ending March 1, 2026 covered all seven daily pulls, with 3,327 to 3,880 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 up from $699.99 to $735.00 for 16GB. By the final snapshot, RX 9070 XT was $287.97 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 $45.94 per GB. AMD had the lower final checkout price by $287.97, 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 $1,600.00 to $1,686.22, while the cheapest new RTX 5090 listings ranged from $6,487.59 to $6,756.20. 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.