AMD prices tick up: the RX 9070 XT jumps 9% overnight

After sitting perfectly still for a week, AMD’s Radeon prices on Amazon woke up today, and they went the wrong way for buyers. The RX 9070 XT is the headline: it had been parked at $679.99 every single day since June 25, and this morning it jumped to $739.99. That is an 8.8% bump, sixty dollars, overnight.

It was not alone. The RX 7900 XTX climbed from $1,049.99 to $1,099.99, and the budget RX 7600 ticked from $279.99 to $289.99 with only one unit left in stock when we checked. Three AMD cards, three increases, all on the same day after a stretch of zero movement. When a whole lineup moves together like that, it usually means thinning inventory rather than a one-off reprice.

Here is the thing though: the new-card price on Amazon is not the only number that matters. A r/buildapcsales post today flagged an ASRock RX 7900 XTX at $699.99 in store at Micro Center, which is four hundred dollars under Amazon’s $1,099.99 new price. If you have a Micro Center nearby, the gap between online new and in-store is enormous right now on the high end. Always worth a look before you click buy.

NVIDIA and Intel, meanwhile, did not blink. The RTX 5070 is still $635.99 and the RTX 5080 is still $1,249.99, while Intel’s Arc B580 holds at $369.99 and the B570 at $259.99. That makes the RTX 5070 newly interesting against the now-pricier 9070 XT: a hundred dollars separates them after today’s move, where it used to be closer to fifty. If you were cross-shopping those two, compare the RTX 5070 and RX 9070 XT side by side before AMD’s number drifts any further.

Bottom line: if an AMD card was on your list, today is not the day, and the used and in-store markets are looking sharper than Amazon new on the high end.