This is why when every tech tuber says just buy the RX 6600 at $200 and under "stares in intense disagreement" begins.
ARC has better ray tracing and upscaling. Tech tubers also all follow the same script about how RT is unusable at this level. The hell it is. Maybe if you use all of the features, but reflections are the only checkbox some of us use. With a little XeSS or FSR, supported games look and play well enough to enjoy. Significantly better than my 6600&6600XT. Maybe if they stopped looking at it on a 4K monitor they would stop being so critical. Probably not; they are all supremely spoiled.
As to those of you that want to leave reflections to cube mapping, planar, or whatev. Get rekt. 🫶The difference in Spiderman games and Cyberpunk is appreciable. If you think G.I. is better and the RT feature to use? Good for you. I can rarely tell on my setup, and the performance trade off is the worst deal in the history of trade deals. Shadows are often worse and less realistic IMO. It makes me wonder when was the last time these reviewers went outside and observed. Because when they say it's providing more realistic shadows, I SMDH at most of the examples. I go out on my breeze way and look around, and think "The fudge they are". /diatribe
I know it's all a matter of personal taste, eye sight, monitor, etc.
These targeted driver improvements will keep coming. Many more games will feature XeSS support and be better optimized for Intel than what has come before. Gandalf will hopefully seal the deal by selling well and providing even more incentive.