Solid State Soul ( SSS ) To clear out the confusion, is the 1660 super suppose to be a higher tier than the 1660 ti or is it an upgraded 1660 with GDDR6 memory ?

mahoney Erm.. Thats the normal 1660 already. This has to be faster than the 1660ti to even make sense

Totally The latter, every s version was a replacement. Even if your suggestion was gold, you have to consider that fab time is extremely precious, cutting down dies means less dies going to GPUs that they were originally meant for which doesn't make sense as that is a whole lot of work for no gain/loss and would be better off just price cutting the 1660ti.

Well that is the thing, no one but Nvidia knows that for sure. In my perspective it can't be faster than 1660ti, just because performance between naming is now set 2080ti > 2080S > 2080.While yeah cutting dies takes a way dies from higher value products. But they have done that in the past(gtx650ti) and if there's enough working dies with IMC deficits, making new sku from them might become economically feasible. Another point for such a product is that Nvidia bundles dies with the gddr memory package and sells that to AIBs. Sure tu116+6xgddr5 might cost the same as tu116+4xgddr6, but gddr6 price has came down since introducing of gtx1660.