What is gibibyte (binary)?

A gibibyte is a binary data unit equal to 1,024 mebibytes, approximately 1.074 gigabytes. It is used by operating systems and technical documentation to express exact binary storage capacities.

What is gigabyte (decimal)?

A gigabyte in the decimal system is a data unit equal to 1,000 megabytes. It is widely used to express storage device capacity, RAM size, file sizes, and data transfer quotas in consumer electronics and networking.

Worked examples

1 gibibyte (binary) = 1.07374182 gigabyte (decimal)

1 gigabyte (decimal) = 1.000000e+09 byte