Gigabit vs. Megabit

Gigabitnoun

109 bits, a thousand million (1,000,000,000) bits.

Gigabitnoun

230 (1,073,741,824) bits.

Gigabitnoun

a unit of information equal to one thousand million (10⁹) or (strictly) 2³⁰ bits.

Gigabit

The gigabit is a multiple of the unit bit for digital information or computer storage. The prefix giga (symbol G) is defined in the International System of Units (SI) as a multiplier of 109 (1 billion, short scale), and therefore.

Megabitnoun

(computing) 106 = 1,000,000 bits or 125,000 bytes (125 kilobytes).

Megabitnoun

(computing) 220 = 1,048,576 bits; a mebibit.

Megabitnoun

one million bits

Megabitnoun

a unit of data size or (when expressed per second) network speed, equal to one million or (strictly) 1,048,576 bits.

Megabit

The megabit is a multiple of the unit bit for digital information. The prefix mega (symbol M) is defined in the International System of Units (SI) as a multiplier of 106 (1 million), and therefore 1 megabit = 106bits = 1000000bits = 1000 kilobits.The megabit has the unit symbol Mbit.