RTX 5070 Drops to $659.00 (May 3)

The week ending May 3, 2026 covered all seven daily pulls, with 3,391 to 3,867 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 $1,022.97 to $659.00 for 12GB, while RX 9070 XT moved up from $683.99 to $690.00 for 16GB. By the final snapshot, RTX 5070 was $31.00 cheaper than RX 9070 XT.

The memory math kept the trade-off honest: RTX 5070 ended the week at $54.92 per GB, while RX 9070 XT ended at $43.13 per GB. NVIDIA had the lower final checkout price by $31.00, 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 $1,680.67 to $1,693.42, while the cheapest new RTX 5090 listings ranged from $3,697.00 to $3,697.00. 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 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.