Megabyte vs. Gigabyte

Megabytenoun

One million (106) bytes.

Megabytenoun

(computing) 1,048,576 bytes; a mebibyte.

Megabytenoun

a unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes

Megabyte

The megabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. Its recommended unit symbol is MB. The unit prefix mega is a multiplier of 1000000 (106) in the International System of Units (SI).

Gigabytenoun

(SI) 109, one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: GB

Gigabytenoun

(computing) a gibibyte or 10243 (1,073,741,824) bytes.

Gigabytenoun

a unit of information equal to one billion (1,073,741,824) bytes or 1024 megabytes

Gigabytenoun

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

Gigabyte

The gigabyte () is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The prefix giga means 109 in the International System of Units (SI).