RX 9070 XT Hits $449.99 (Mar 15)

The week ending March 15, 2026 covered all seven daily pulls, with 3,678 to 4,230 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 $399.00 to $449.99 for 16GB. By the final snapshot, RX 9070 XT was $572.98 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 $28.12 per GB. AMD had the lower final checkout price by $572.98, 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 $529.99 to $1,600.00, while the cheapest new RTX 5090 listings ranged from $3,019.14 to $3,944.33. 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.