I have never been a fan of paying the early adopter tax.
and it feels like ARC, intel 12th Gen, and even the newsest AMD CPU's have a little bit of early adopter tax.
for example the 13th gen intel does not seem to have the same problems. the conversion to DDR5 has been ironed out.
Linus tested games live this morning, actually not a bad showing at all. Bigger issue for me is stability and work on older platform. Did an upgrade in feb this year, didn't have much of a choice. If the prices were decent I would have gotten a 3060, settled on a 1660, and on non RTX games and RTX disabled games 20- 35% +- increase in speed of the 3060, is decent, but meh the huge price difference at the time. If I didn't have to get a new case (old case cooler master CM II), was falling apart. PSU was 10 years old upgraded to a 240gig SSD (old one was down to 70%- 80% health), because of the line of work I do, didn't want to be caught with my pants down.
If it weren't for the extra odds and ends and stupid GPU prices, yeah I still paid 7.2K for the 1660, would have liked a super or Ti but at some cards being 2 grand more, just wasn't worth it.
The big selling point is RTX if you don't do RTX or the latest DX12 titles like me, there isn't much point getting the ARC a770 over the 3060. Not that the a770 performs badly in older titles. I pretty much just have older titles, entire library of 500 games maybe 3 being DX12. Last game I bought was shadow of the tomb raider 9 months ago.