GTX 1070 Price History: The Margins Are Pennies, So the Buy Price Is Everything

The GTX 1070 refuses to die. Eight years after launch it still sells every week on eBay UK, and that is exactly the trap: people treat it like it is still worth what it was, and overpay. It is a £78 card now. Once you accept that, the flipping maths gets a lot more honest.

The dataset

I looked at real eBay UK sold listings from 9 Apr to 28 Jun 2026 and ended up with 24 clean GTX 1070 8GB comps (one exact duplicate removed). These are working, pre-owned cards, not asking prices or “spares or repairs” listings.

Two caveats. I pulled the GTX 1070 Ti into its own pile, since blending the faster card would skew the median. And every clean comp here was an MSI 1070, mostly Gaming X, Armor, and VR Ready, so treat this as the MSI story more than the last word on every 1070.

The full dataset is below if you want to nerd out on it.

Price range

The median (£78.54) and the mean (£79.11) sit within a pound of each other, and trimming the extremes barely moves it. So a used GTX 1070 is a high-seventies card: low nineties if it is mint and boxed, and not the £100 the odd listing wants.

Price trend

The dots scatter from £52 to £103, normal for a card this old where condition and boxing swing the price. The weekly median is the clearer read: mid-eighties in April, high sixties and low seventies by late June. Early-half £84, late-half £77. Not a crash, more a slow puncture, the sort you only notice three streets later. That is what an eight-year-old card does as newer budget options keep arriving.

What the outliers show

At the top, £102.88 (a VR Ready card, 19 Apr) is the only three-figure sale, and it is not your comp; someone just wanted that exact card that day. At the bottom, £52.15 for a working Armor card is the kind of bargain that occasionally turns up.

The brand is the real caveat here. Every clean comp is an MSI 1070, so a Founders Edition, an EVGA, or an ASUS Strix could land a little above or below these numbers. Adjust for that rather than treating the median as law.

What is a good buy price?

Work back from the £78.54 median: take off about £5 postage, a £10 condition cushion, and a £25 minimum profit, and you land near £40.

• Bargain: £40 or below
• Fair: £40 to £60
• Risky: £60 to £78, basically the going rate
• Avoid: near £95 and up for a plain card

The catch on a cheap card is the maths. Buy at £60, sell at £78, and after postage both ways and eBay’s cut you have made almost nothing. That is why the buy price matters more here than it would on an expensive card.

Is it worth flipping?

Yes, but as a volume or bundle play, not a jackpot. The margin on a single card is thin as cigarette paper, so the money is in buying job lots cheap, dropping a tested 1070 into a whole build to help the build sell, or grabbing the occasional £45 card and turning it at £75. Chase one card at £65 hoping to clear £15 and the fees and the soft trend will eat it. Treat it as an asset that has to keep moving, not one you hold and profit from later.

What to check before you buy

• Tested and working, ideally with a benchmark or GPU-Z screenshot
• Clean, in-focus photos of the actual card, not a stock image
• No artifacting, no fan-noise mention, no vague ex-mining history
• Boxed is a bonus at this age and pushes toward the £90 end
• Sensible postage, not a suspicious £2 for a heavy dual-fan card

And treat a “spares or repairs” listing as a warning, not a cheap comp. A dead card at £30 tells you what a dead card is worth, nothing more.

The catch

Twenty-four comps over ten weeks is a solid sample, but it is one marketplace and all MSI, so other brands may sit either side. eBay sold prices miss cash deals and accepted offers, and on a card this age condition moves the price more than any average. The 1070 launched in 2016; its floor is closer than its ceiling.

Before you commit, check what the buy does to your margin. Open FliprForge, drop the card into a build or a flip, and see whether £40 in still clears a profit against £78 out.

One last thing: if a 1070 is unusually cheap, assume there is a reason until you have proof otherwise. Test it, or buy from someone who already has.