GiB\text{GiB}

gibibyte

Informationexact by definition

One gibibyte: 1,073,741,824 bytes, exactly — 2 to the thirtieth, and 7.4% larger than a gigabyte. RAM is genuinely sold in these, whatever the box says, because memory really is addressed in powers of two.

Watch out: Memory and storage differ here in a way worth knowing. A stick sold as 16 GB of RAM really does hold 16 gibibytes, because the hardware is binary all the way down. A drive sold as 16 GB holds 16 billion bytes. The same three letters, two different quantities, decided by which component you are buying.

1 GiB\text{GiB} 1,073,741,800 B\text{B}

One gibibyte in every information unit

8,589,930,000bit (bit)
1,073,740,000byte (B)
8,589,930kilobit (kbit)
8,589.93megabit (Mbit)
8.58993gigabit (Gbit)
0.00858993terabit (Tbit)
1,073,740kilobyte (kB)
1,073.74megabyte (MB)
1.07374gigabyte (GB)
0.00107374terabyte (TB)
1,048,580kibibyte (KiB)
1,024mebibyte (MiB)
1gibibyte (GiB)this unit
0.000976563tebibyte (TiB)